Sentence examples for a means of behavior from inspiring English sources

Medical officials, impressed with the "ancillary" effectiveness of the technique, were found to view rectal rehydration not as a medical treatment but "a means of behavior control".

First, we should think long and hard before seeking regime change as a means of behavior modification.

There are stories in the CIA torture report of "rectal rehydration as a means of behavior control", threats to murder and "threats to sexually abuse the mother of a detainee" – or cut a mother's throat.

We additionally analyzed the relationships between patient age and clinical stage as a means of assessing tumor behavior in older and younger women.

In online forums, she encountered skeptics who saw Asperger's as an excuse for rudeness — or, worse, a means of pathologizing essentially normal behavior and diverting resources from those who were truly challenged.

As a means of assessing the anticipated behavior of the plates, upper and lower bounds to the buckling strengths are established.

Information-based continuing medical education has been shown to be largely ineffective as a means of changing behavior of physicians in office practice.

Economists have been much slower than psychologists to turn to locus of control as a means of understanding human behavior.

The U.S. Administration will exploit the Syrian regime's vulnerability as a means of affecting its behavior toward Iraq, Lebanon and possibly Israel.

In recent years, numerical simulation and optimization of chemical reactors in general, and polymerization reactors in particular, have become increasingly popular as a means of understanding the behavior of reactors and improving their performance.

Examples of punitive teacher-child interactions include teachers being critical when an infant or toddler is crying, taking away or withholding food or a bottle as a punishment, and confining infants and toddlers as a means of controlling their behavior.