The phrase "a certain conduct" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific type of behavior or action that is not explicitly defined.
Example: "The committee decided to address a certain conduct that had been observed among the staff."
Alternatives: "a particular behavior" or "a specific action".
Nevertheless, formation of a certain conducting phase, like a Magnéli phase in TiO2, may not be possible in ZnO since it has no stable suboxide phase [101].
In the House, there is a parallel bipartisan effort afoot, set off in part by the notion, Republicans said, that there has been an "overcriminalization" of certain conduct that they perceive as another form of regulatory growth.
Although sexual material may be distasteful to many, it is not necessarily obscene, which the Supreme Court defined in 1973 as material that, taken as a whole, lacks artistic merit, depicts certain conduct in a patently offensive manner and violates contemporary community standards.
My position in no way tugs against the principle underlying §109(a)—i.e., that certain conduct by the copyright owner exhausts the owner's §106(3) distribution right.
(b) Two statutes or two portions of a single statute proscribe certain conduct, and the question is whether the defendant can be punished twice because his conduct violates both proscriptions.
A construction which I believe at least equally plausible, based simply on the juxtaposition of the various sections of the statute, is that § 2515 contains a basic proscription of certain conduct, but does not attempt to specify remedies or rights arising from a breach of that proscription; the specification of remedies is left to other sections.
Obtaining a court order may grant a physician a legal right to engage in certain conduct.
Under that ruling, Miller v. California, a work may be deemed obscene if, taken as a whole, it lacks artistic, literary or scientific merit, depicts certain conduct in a patently offensive manner, and violates contemporary community standards.
Like civil disobedience, lawful punishment is associated with a backward-looking aim to demonstrate condemnation of certain conduct as well as a forward-looking aim to bring about a lasting change in that conduct.
