Sentence examples for willing action from inspiring English sources

The idea of affirmative and enthusiastic consent encourages people to regard sex as a positive, willing action.

The mistake (of which Locke likely became aware, given that the statement clashes with the rest of his views and was removed from E2-5) is that not every instance of willing an action is followed by the action itself.

This is because the will is a kind of cause — willing causes action.

I conclude that we should use every means except that of military-backed unilateral - or western "coalition of the willing" - action, which has few reasonable prospects, is arguably not the last resort, and would not have right authority.

Locke wants to know whether I am free with respect to willing the action of walking to the fridge.

It cannot be located in places and times prior to the agent's freely willing her action.

Still, the Obama administration, according to officials, is calculating that once the two leaders are in face-to-face negotiations, neither side will be willing to take actions that would capsize the talks in the first month.

Hence, actors in a region are willing to take action for collective action to achieve common benefits (Leana & Van Buren 1999).

What may be more important however are the millions willing to take action, even political action, to solve climate change.

Exhausted from a decade of changing governments and political intrigues, people will not be willing to take action to protect the station, experts say.

However, the past six or so years have seen governments increasingly willing to take action, even while meaningful multilateral action is stymied by a small group of nations.