Sentences with phrase «case of a dilemma»

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In these cases, there is no dilemma — simply a new cost of doing business.

The other issue that faces all companies is, as you get to a large enough size, there are people whose job it is to protect business lines — they're just doing their job — but this is the classic case of «The Innovator's Dilemma,» the famous business book, which says that when companies ultimately fail, whether it's Polaroid or whoever, it's not because they were big and dumb; it's because they were actually really smart.

The Massachusetts case goes to the heart of the privacy dilemma we all face.

The essence of this particular dilemma lies in answering this initial question: Even if the upside appears to be a sure thing, can you afford to accept your fate in the event that the worse - case scenario of a life decision implodes on you?

Rice's case apparently posed something of a dilemma for the court system, too: back in May, Rice was indicted for third - degree aggravated assault, but those charges were later dropped.

In most cases however, the primary dilemma is either inadequate diversification, or a complete lack of it.

In many cases, of course, vocational dilemmas involve emotional conflicts which call for longer - term counseling.

One of the most important aspects of being able to respond pastorally is to know yourself well enough to know what your reaction to cases like these might be and what kind of moral dilemmas they might pose for you.

At Vox Nova, Kelly Wilson has published an extended examination of the dilemma posed to those who find themselves struggling with Church teaching, whether because they authentically lack conviction or understanding or deal doubt from a more cynical place, as in the case of ideologically - driven op - ed columnists.

«Everything enjoys what he calls «prehensions,» that is to say, somehow absorbs what is outside itself into its own being... but once more, as in the case of life, he is on the horns of a dilemma.

This of course can not be the case so typically, especially among blind faith believers, people will align themselves with one or the other and argue passionately for the view they have become convinced (or want) to be true whilst more objective believers such as AW Tozer and CS Lewis recognize the dilemma.

The church of Galileo's time had perhaps more grounds for feeling confidence that it was right than has been the case in subsequent dilemmas, and yet it was wrong.

I know that in some cases it is completely unavoidable, but a lot of people who are parents understand this dilemma, and actually appreciate the guidance.

I stand to be corrected, but I assume Doe Adjaho was in a dilemma not knowing what the Constitution meant by saying «where the president and the vice - president are both unable to perform the function of the president, the speaker of parliament shall perform those function until the president or vice president is able to perform those function or a new president assumes office as the case may be» (11).

«There are some cases where the rival says, «If you are doing add - on pricing, then the best response is for me to also do add - on pricing,» and then the firms can not get out of the prisoner's dilemma.

«In the face of such orders and the ethical dilemmas to which they give rise, medical professionals likely would decline to serve as expert witnesses in lethal injection cases in the first place, robbing the parties and the courts of appropriate expert testimony that would assist them in accurately adjudicating the important constitutional issues this and similar cases present,» the authors write in the brief.

Within the work groups focusing on different types of disorders, members have faced scientific dilemmas and — in some cases — pressure from patient groups.

Set up as a mock - trial, the session was designed to examine the increasingly common dilemma of whether evidence such as MRI images, which can be used to see damage in the brain such as lesions or tumors, should be entered into court cases.

«We wanted to look at how payoffs from social interactions can evolve, and what we found was that in the case of prisoner's dilemma, mutants that provide incentives to each other for cooperating can invade, which changes the game to one of partial cooperation or coordination,» said Erol Akçay, the study's lead author and postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis.

Having donors fill out consent forms asking if they would like to be notified in the case of relevant findings and then subsequently marking biological samples would solve the dilemma to be faced by investigators, like myself, dealing with sensitive genomic data.

The daily function of these self - absorbed lemmings is to speak in pseudo-mysticisms, discuss their indolent dilemmas, work on their etchings or, in the case of ailing playwright Alex (Jeremy Irons), take a long and chatty time to die.

In case we've somehow missed the stakes of Shaun's dilemma, Eddie offers script notes to her in his first villainous address: «You're a woman, alone at the mercy of strangers, and your greatest weakness is locked inside this house.»

All too often in «7 Days in Entebbe,» primary characters on all sides of this 1970s period - piece political thriller state the obvious — and then state it again, and then have to stand around while someone else states the obvious one more time, just in case the folks in the seats have yet to grasp the stakes at hand and the dilemmas in play.

In the case of «4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,» the dilemma involved the repugnant choices faced by two young women negotiating with an illegal abortionist.

Ippolito suggested that this digital case - study could easily be used in many courses at the Ed School to address a variety of educational dilemmas.

Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

While theories both broad and specific are common, «we don't really have a good midrange theory of educational ethics,» admits Professor Meira Levinson, co-editor, with Jacob Fay, of the new Harvard Education Press title, Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries — a book she hopes will help fill that void.

Levinson's team has posted a number of other case studies on Justice in Schools and published still more in Dilemmas of Educational Ethics, specifically to help educators, administrators, parents, and even students themselves have productive conversations about hard decisions.

The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).

In addition, Levinson and doctoral candidate Jacob Fay are editing a book of case studies and commentaries by philosophers, social scientists, educators, and policymakers that delve deep on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts.

14, have tried to spark a conversation with their collaborative new book Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries.

The following case study, compiled from information provided by educators and social - service professionals in one school district, illustrates the educational dilemma of a student whose journey through the foster - care system took him back and forth through several different counties and school districts.

Teaching cases are instructional tools aiming to place learners at the center of real - life dilemmas.

As a case - based course, students will engage in discussion of actual education dilemmas, written and documented in order to bring the reality of schooling into the classroom.

[youtube video link for mobile viewing] The discussion of who's gonna case their BlackBerry Bold 9900 / 9930 is already going hot and heavy in the CrackBerry forums, and I think this video I recorded last at BlackBerry 7 Fan Night is going to add to the dilemma.

And for the case of someone with no spare RRSP room and non-registered investments, there's a similar dilemma of whether to realize the gains now in a low bracket, paying tax now so you have less to continue investing, but resetting your cost basis higher for the future.

An all too common dilemma when serving a search warrants in animal neglect cases: «What about those animals who do not yet show physical signs of neglect?»

John S. Coleman & Stanley A. Temple, On the Prowl, WISCONSIN NATURAL RESOURCES MAG., Dec. 1996, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, at http://www.wnrmag.com/stories/1996/dec96/cats.htm (Coleman and Temple conducted a four - year study of cat predation in Wisconsin); see also Michele Ameri, The Australian Cat Dilemma, TED CASE STUDIES, CASE NUMBER: 396 (1997) available at http://www.american.edu/ted/cats.htm; B. M. Fitzgerald & D. C. Turner, Hunting behavior of domestic cats and their impact on prey populations, in THE DOMESTIC CAT: THE BIOLOGY OF ITS BEHAVIOUR 123 - 147 (D.C. Turner & P. Bateson, eds., Cambridge University Press 2000of Natural Resources, at http://www.wnrmag.com/stories/1996/dec96/cats.htm (Coleman and Temple conducted a four - year study of cat predation in Wisconsin); see also Michele Ameri, The Australian Cat Dilemma, TED CASE STUDIES, CASE NUMBER: 396 (1997) available at http://www.american.edu/ted/cats.htm; B. M. Fitzgerald & D. C. Turner, Hunting behavior of domestic cats and their impact on prey populations, in THE DOMESTIC CAT: THE BIOLOGY OF ITS BEHAVIOUR 123 - 147 (D.C. Turner & P. Bateson, eds., Cambridge University Press 2000of cat predation in Wisconsin); see also Michele Ameri, The Australian Cat Dilemma, TED CASE STUDIES, CASE NUMBER: 396 (1997) available at http://www.american.edu/ted/cats.htm; B. M. Fitzgerald & D. C. Turner, Hunting behavior of domestic cats and their impact on prey populations, in THE DOMESTIC CAT: THE BIOLOGY OF ITS BEHAVIOUR 123 - 147 (D.C. Turner & P. Bateson, eds., Cambridge University Press 2000of domestic cats and their impact on prey populations, in THE DOMESTIC CAT: THE BIOLOGY OF ITS BEHAVIOUR 123 - 147 (D.C. Turner & P. Bateson, eds., Cambridge University Press 2000OF ITS BEHAVIOUR 123 - 147 (D.C. Turner & P. Bateson, eds., Cambridge University Press 2000);

BHQF's core members, in case you couldn't guess, are all graduates of New York's venerable Cooper Union, now mired in a similar dilemma.

It's the height of folly to infer that this is not the case, to pretend that the men whose selfish decisions were and are responsible for this — whatever it is, disaster, dilemma, looming extinction, transitional threshold — are not still running the world, politically and economically.

Climate Access is now accepting submissions for our next problem - solving case challenge, where an organization facing a public engagement dilemma will receive advice from a panel of experts and network peers.

However, in the case of climate change, the overwhelming scientific consensus — and the impetus for mitigative policies it entails — poses a particular dilemma for people whose identity is threatened by any potential interference with the free market.

The researchers understand you may also have to highlight such dilemmas in the case of cyclone management, so they conclude: «However, hardening [of buildings] provides «fail safe» protection for average storms that might not be achieved if the only option were [cyclone] modification.»

All is easy and simple, when the empirical data leads to a narrow enough distribution on the basis of the likelihood to make the influence of all plausible priors small, but in the opposite case we have the dilemma of the first paragraph.

This creates a dilemma for the climate scientists: either they have to throw away the entire proxy data sets as unreliable in which case they have no way of showing that Earth was cooler during the pre-industrial times or to show the entire data set, in which case, they have to present an explanation for the divergence between the proxies and the temperature records.

Except in this case what the scientist is sick and tired of, is his own duplicity clearly emerging from accurate reporting (ie, gettting Gored on the horns of his dilemma, as someone earlier mentioned).

The dilemma, therefore, is that the high public visiblity of the Nature press process, combined with Nature's decision in this case to pick the outstandingly interesting result, has the potential to create a bias in the public's understanding.

This dilemma stems from the simple fact that many of the leading e-discovery platforms are neither built nor priced for small cases.

The authors — both of whom are veteran legal technology and e-discovery consultants — start out by framing what they call the «small case dilemma.»