Sentence examples for Mode of conduct from inspiring English sources

Folkway, the learned behaviour, shared by a social group, that provides a traditional mode of conduct.

Sanction, in the social sciences, a reaction (or the threat or promise of a reaction) by members of a social group indicating approval or disapproval of a mode of conduct and serving to enforce behavioral standards of the group.

Once people have learned how to achieve some purpose and entrenched that mode of conduct in a habit or skill, they no longer need to tend to what they are doing in achieving it.

Rokeach (1973) defined a value as "an enduring belief or end-states of existence that a specific mode of conduct or end-state is personally preferable to its opposite" (Homer and Kahle 1988, p. 638).

Yet because it will be the general mode of conduct in society, we will end up receiving infinitely more than we could ever give to ourselves.

Some, endorsing the "everybody deserves a second chance" mode of conduct, say give the man a break and leave him alone, while others fancy more the "once a woman-beater, always a woman-beater" philosophy.

We haven't really seen consistent differences in levels of candidate support based on the mode of conducting the poll in Alabama and Mississippi so far this year, however.

But leaders of commerce and government need to be weaned away from the bottom-line, easy-answer mode of conducting business, and their responsibility should extend far beyond shareholder value or a personal agenda.

If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting the best mode of conducting it, the majority, in order that something may be done, must conform to the views of the minority; and thus the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater, and give a tone to the national proceedings.

Natural convection is the dominant mode of conducting heat exchange between the upright pipe and air.

Chiang Kai-shek was born in 1887 in a small town near the southeast coast, raised mainly in traditional modes of conduct by his widowed mother before traveling to Japan to study in a military academy -- as many young Chinese were doing at that time.