opt out

Examples of opting

opting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Those proclaimed to be 'kin' by the employer frequently let down their patron, opting for those employers who can provide regular work and income.
Neither of these choices offers an attractive life strategy, but, out of sheer informational desperation, more and more people are opting for the second alternative.
It meant opting for and cultivating a positivistically orientated scientific ethos, for an emancipation from the ethos of the party soldier.
Of the various approaches to personality, they are clearly opting for trait and social cognitive approaches as the likely sources of valid data.
More boys than girls appeared to be concerned about the importance of friends opting for the same subjects.
Of the pupils opting to study music, 19 of them followed this trend.
Even less acceptable was the possibility that districts could later secede from the kingdom by opting out from the charter.
In this work, the environment is characterised by two negotiators, time constraints, deadlines, full information and the possibility of opting out.
Losers may eventually consider some version of opting out of the political system - in particular, abstention from future political activity.
Opinions were split however about the importance of friends opting for the subject.
But because we now operate under an opting-in system, the victim's family is asked for permission.
Only slight differences were obtained across groups for main apology and complaint strategies, with a higher incidence of opting out among the lower proficiency groups.
This opting out of responsibility would not have been possible with her husband.
Sometimes participants in a joint activity will disagree so radically that they will feel they are better off opting out of the joint endeavor altogether.
Given these concerns, he supports an opting-in approach that requires consent for posthumous organ procurement.
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