Sentence examples for an ingrained characteristic from inspiring English sources

What probably began as a defensive pose became an ingrained characteristic: Stein's preternatural cheerfulness may be her most outstanding personality trait.

He reacted in a measured way to Mr Giscard d'Estaing's remarks and hopes that Turkey will raise its standing in EU circles by putting its weight behind a Cyprus settlement.Whatever happens at the Copenhagen summit, the EU has an ingrained characteristic working in Turkey's favour: a habit of being trapped by its own promises.

For the purpose of interpreting how defensive styles affect the behavior of leaders, there is some truth to the suggestion that the neutrality and lack of warmth characteristic of some leaders is a result of an ingrained fear of becoming the object for other people for to become the object arouses fears that subordinates will become envious and compete for power.

Regular mobility is an ingrained part of residents' livelihood strategies.

My aunt had an ingrained dislike of Cajuns and Catholics.

Companies need discipline — an ingrained sense of the relationship between effort and reward, product and profit.

Even at the highest level collaboration is an ingrained concept in South African business.

This may explain why forgetfulness seldom dismays Johnson: it is an ingrained state of being.

The legacy was one of uncompetitive firms, a huge bureaucracy and an ingrained welfare mentality.

A report this week from Human Rights Watch argued that police brutality remains "an ingrained practice" in Argentina.

To achieve the look, she relies on an ingrained English skill for layering.