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behoves

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Third person singular of behove

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The word "behoves" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a somewhat formal verb that is used to mean "to be necessary or appropriate for". For example, "It behoves us to take responsibility for our own actions."

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But it surely behoves those who favour sending ever more people to prison to try to make prison work better.

The third verse of "Flower o' Scotland", the country's unofficial anthem, behoves us to leave history in the past, and to stand up and face the future.

As a final flourish, they add that, given the presumed rarity of complex life, it behoves man to take better care of the abundance of other species with which he shares the planet.The authors claim that they are voicing in "Rare Earth" a view privately held by many scientists looking for extraterrestrial intelligence.

IN A dreary Wolverhampton community centre, Emma Reynolds recently sat through a series of the hard-luck stories it behoves British MPs to hear each week.

But whatever the reason, it behoves those unwilling to wait for websites to get their acts together to consider the alternatives to traditional passwords.Skysail dactyl gimcrack golemOne such is multi-word passwords called passphrases.

It behoves a government presiding over a new constitutional settlement to do some thinking about how the new settlement is to be underpinned from the centre.

Their hypothesis is that in places where disease is rampant, it behoves groups not to mix with one another more than is strictly necessary, in order to reduce the risk of contagion.

And when serious people beg you to run for president of the United States, and suggest you could win, it behoves you to think awhile.

And once a company loses its youthful vigour, it behoves the founder to leave, watch it suffer, then return as saviour.

Mr Hague gave the asylum controversy greater weight than it deserved, allowing it to take the place of the broader positive vision which it behoves a party leader to describe on the eve of an election.

Of course there are times when it behoves the opposition to stress that it is "loyal", meaning that it is not traitorous.

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