The phrase "a mode of behaviour" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a particular way or manner in which someone acts or conducts themselves.
Example: "His tendency to avoid confrontation is just one mode of behaviour that defines his personality."
Alternatives: "a manner of acting" or "a way of behaving".
One big international hotel chain tried years ago to turn kindness into a mode of corporate behaviour.
It imposes a "military" mode of behaviour on a person, places him in an unending state of military stress.
Those principles are an indivisibility of interests among participants, a commitment to diffuse reciprocity, and a system of dispute settlement intended to enforce a particular mode of behaviour.
For ALICE RAP, it is imperative to develop and apply a conception of the addiction phenomenon that also includes the motives for entering into an addictive mode of behaviour, not only focusing upon harms reduction.
Ritual is a specific, observable mode of behaviour exhibited by all known societies.
But the shift into the Anthropocene tells us that we are playing with fire, a potentially reckless mode of behaviour which we are likely to come to regret unless we get a grip on the situation".
But the shift into the Anthropocene tells us that we are playing with fire, a potentially reckless mode of behaviour which we are likely to come to regret unless we get a grip on the situation". Rapley is not part of the WGA.
The word does not connote "honesty" in its modern sense but refers rather to an ideal aristocratic moral and social mode of behaviour, a sincere refinement of tastes and manners.
Any other mode of behaviour -- say, a cab driver charging less fare to a blind woman, a phenomenon which is surprisingly common - was considered "irrational" and demanded an explanation based on selfish reasons (e.g. "ego motivation," meaning the cab driver just wanted to feel good about himself).
