Sentence examples for undertake rather than from inspiring English sources

Most studies of divestitures, whether they appear in the finance or strategy literatures, explore either the motivations for or the implications of divestitures that managers choose to undertake, rather than divestitures that managers are mandated to undertake by some external entity such as a regulatory body.

The theory is that QoL does not decrease due to poorer health, but instead decreases through limitations in what one can do as a result of poor health i.e. individuals value the activities that they can undertake rather than health itself.

Another characteristic, asceticism, is universal, provided the term is defined widely enough so as to include all supererogatory (voluntarily undertaken rather than wholly prescribed) religious practices.

More seriously, seen from Alinsky's point of view (he believed in "not rhetoric, but realism"), the Climate Camp suffers from a preoccupation with measuring its achievements in terms of the protests it has undertaken rather than a series of achievable goals that those outside the camp movement can easily identify with.

That approach controls the probability of false positive conclusions across all the tests undertaken, rather than the probability of making one mistake over all tests as would be the interpretation of an experiment-wise error correction.

Unfortunately, while talking to Arzuw's mother, it looks like she is better aware of the long list of medications she undertook rather than basic development facts such as adequate nutrition, growth and learning.

He spent his early life in scandalous dissipation; his service with the French Army at the siege of Gibraltar in 1782 was undertaken rather for distraction than from serious concern with a military career.

be most useful undertaking rather than the perpetual war cycle the U.S. new role for the military everywhere.

While the Benson family has pledged to keep the newly branded Pels in place, Silver's NBA has been quietly but aggressively exploring the possibility of international expansion as the league's next big undertaking rather than adding - or moving - a franchise to a basketball-starved city such as Seattle.

This also suggests that our identified genes are likely to be functionally important within the SwAsp aspen trees that we wish to use for future association mapping, which was a major motivation for this undertaking rather than simply selecting candidate genes on the basis of published forward genetics screens.

"The dispersion of the Al Qaeda brand in North Africa, in Yemen, in Somalia and in other places -- and as it is appearing to manifest in Syria now -- means that the kinds of activities that will be undertaken are likely to be undertaken overseas, rather than directed against the homeland," Beers said.