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Discover LudwigThe phrase "against habitual" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe actions or behaviors that oppose or counteract habitual tendencies, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The new policy was implemented to act against habitual negligence among employees."
Alternatives: "counter habitual" or "oppose habitual".
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Rabbi Greenberg, Dr. Mouw and Professor Noll agreed that popular bromides about self-esteem, guilt trips and being non-judgmntal now weigh heavily against habitual soul-searching.
The usual arguments against habitual lottery play, things like, "If you took that ten dollars you spend every week on the lottery and saved it, in ten years you'd have a down payment on a car," seem a little silly when the player in question doesn't even have a mattress.
We therefore explored participants' ability to estimate portions using two previously piloted methods, rating the number of portions displayed (Brogden & Almiron-Roig, 2011) and a scale-based rating of the portion amount against habitual amounts (Kral, 2006).
Case control studies of the association between diethylstilboestrol against habitual abortion and vaginal carcinoma in female offspring [ 2], and of salicylate-attributed Reye syndrome [ 3] have clearly shown the benefits of this design thanks to their valid and relevant results despite small numbers of cases in both studies.
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Secondary aims are to determine whether the intervention, as against the habitual monitoring, improves tolerance to exercise and pulmonary function, and reduces dyspnoea, the number of crises and hospital admissions due to COPD and the medication used to control the disease.
Study procedures made it necessary to provide participants with personal bottles of ABHR, which presented a novelty against the habitual bed- and wall-mounted dispensers in our hospital.
RW: The process for creating anything new is to go against one's habitual nature and to ask meaningful questions regardless of the field.
This will always be a struggle, but the friction that is engendered from struggling against one's habitual nature creates the inner dynamic that opens one to becoming a creative problem solver.
The Times judged it "increasingly the least relevant", noting that, paradoxically, the NUT was in "habitual revolt" against a government that is "sympathetic to teachers".
Besides waging a long and brutal war against Kurdish rebels, its habitual response to critics has been to try to silence them.For many years the generals backed Turkey's aspirations to join the EU, because they saw this as the ultimate fulfilment of Ataturk's dreams.
An editorial published by the Chinese state-run news agency on Friday called the accusations linking Chinese hackers to the attack "baseless" and said it was "obviously another case of Washington's habitual slander against Beijing on cyber security".
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