Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] at [adj] decision " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On complex issues , Cabinet committees are just about the worst possible way of arriving at sensible decisions … . |
| 2 | James argued here that abstract rules provide us with only limited assistance in arriving at moral decisions because ‘ every real dilemma is in literal strictness a unique situation ’ . |
| 3 | The mechanisms by which political elites can be held responsive to majority views in systems of representative government were further explored in Joseph Schumpeter 's Capitalism , Socialism and Democracy ( 1944 ) , which defined democracy as ‘ an institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote ’ . |
| 4 | That institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote . |
| 5 | Thus we arrive , via the epithet ‘ Democracy is the rule of the politician ’ to a complete formal definition : ‘ The democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote ’ . |
| 6 | 21 ) who explicitly rejected the ‘ classical doctrine ’ of democracy , according to which it embodies distinctive ideals concerning participation in political life and the relationship between political leaders and the people , and replaced it by another theory of democracy as ‘ competition for political leadership ’ : ‘ the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote ’ ( p. 269 ) . |
| 7 | Schumpeter advocates it and describes it as being ‘ that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote . ’ |
| 8 | Consequently , the study of the distribution of power should be analysed by looking at actual decisions and finding out which person(s) or group(s) was ( were ) most responsible for shaping the final outcome of the decision-making process . |