Sentences with phrase «between alternative actions»

When choosing between alternative actions, we have to compare the positive outcomes of those actions and weigh them against their costs.

Not exact matches

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said securing peace between Israelis and Palestinians will require «bold action» and there is «no alternative» to negotiations.

In other words, the choice which Life requires of our considered action is a great deal less complex than at first seemed to be the case; for it is reduced to a simple choice between the first and last stages of the successive alternatives which we have been able to define: the rejection of Being, which returns us to dust, or the acceptance of Being, which leads us, by way of socialization, to faith in a Supreme Unity — opposite directions along a single road.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

Yet there was a contrast between those mainly oriented to political action (still, in a way, oriented to means rather than ends, though it was the means to overthrow the existing system) and those mainly concerned with the actual creation of alternative patterns of living.

However, the former misconstrues the relation between theology and action, as though theology were theory systematized in the academy to be applied in practical cases later on; and the latter misconstrues the relevant pluralisms, as though they were alternative outward and public manifestations of a single mode of inwardness.

In ethics, judgment means the ability to discriminate between various alternative actions and simultaneously to bear responsibility for both that judgment and its consequences.

Not only do they allow us to choose between alternative courses of action, they also work when a choice doesn't come with all the options up front.

What will you eat while the 20 year lead time between action on alternatives and results.

In this sense, the choice we face is not between «business as usual» and climate action, but between alternative pathways of growth: one that exacerbates climate risk, and another that reduces it.

Although the PTAB and district courts are not strict alternatives to each other (in the sense that district court actions are generally filed by the patent - rights - holder, while PTAB proceedings are instigated by the would - be accused), the correlation between PTAB's rise and the district court's lag seems too strong to ignore.