To determine the best course of action, Redner and his French colleagues, Marie Chupeau (Université Paris - Sud) and Olivier Bénichou (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), created a model that compared how to optimize with respect to two opposite courses of action: one in which a searcher moves on immediately to a new area upon not finding a resource and another in which a searcher remains in the current area indefinitely. (sciencedaily.com)
And when it wants an easier monetary policy and targets a lower federal funds rate, the Fed engages in the opposite course of action of buying government securities so as to introduce more money into the system. (investopedia.com)
Other so - called fundamentalists have taken just the opposite course, that of «Christ of culture.» (religion-online.org)