Sentence examples for we only act from inspiring English sources

We only act as an agent for people who want to sell their cars".

Altruism is often framed as being disingenuous behaviour: we only act in a selfless way because we believe that we will be rewarded in kind.

Thomson's argument hinges on the way we act on the lamp, but we only act on it at instants in the t-series, and so what can be deduced logically from this way of acting will apply only to instants in the t-series.

"I know you know your history," he wrote, "but I am curious as to where the United States acts or have acted throughout its entire history for the 'betterment of people elsewhere.' And to this day, we only act when it serves the betterment of those who are already sitting quite well".

"We could only act out what we imagined to be close to the truth," says Buchan, "but, by the same token, you desperately don't want to insult families who have been through that by saying we know what it's like – because we don't".

We can only act in this manner because we deny our own divinity; we disavow our place in the fabric of life.

Singer: We can only act on the best evidence we have at the time, and that entails limitations.

There is no argument that trafficking women and girls and gender-based violence and oppression are not issues of urgent and extreme concern -- but we can only act on this concern if we have our story straight.

More explicitly, this disposition is the condition of virtue, the proper expression of our rational nature, in which we not only act correctly and on the basis of knowledge, but also recognize our kinship to god and witness with joy the god's orderly management of the universe.

It seems we can only act decisively towards the common good when our backs are to the wall.

"We aim to only act on accounts when we're confident, based on our algorithms, that their behavior is abusive," says Twitter of its updated algorithms, in a blog post.