Sentence examples for bits of behavior from inspiring English sources

More likely, however, it's that when we began taking away television privileges to signify our displeasure with certain bits of behavior, we carelessly neglected to include radio in the punishment package.

One of Rather's famous bits of behavior involved his walking away from the anchor's chair, in 1987, to protest the intrusion of a U.S. Open tennis match into the evening-news slot, a huff that resulted in six minutes of blackness going out over the airwaves.

Surely the statement that he could have done otherwise does not mean merely that it is logically possible that he did otherwise, for superhuman and miraculous bits of behavior are logically possible.

"You get a little bit of behavior problems.

Even some Democrats said that many viewers thought either that Mr. Kerry was outing Ms. Cheney, or that calling someone a lesbian was a schoolyard insult, a bit of behavior that was unseemly for a presidential candidate.

The "pattern of behavior" of the typical bourgeois defines the meaning of "respectability" (Sartre 1992: 77), and so it is true of some particular bit of behavior that it is either respectable or not.

One general line of response notes that whenever we explain a bit of behavior by appeal to extrinsic content, there is a local, intrinsic property available as a "causal surrogate" to produce the behavior (Crane and Mellor 1990).

The Exclusion Problem presents a mental (functional) property M and its physical realizer P as competing to be causally relevant to the same effect, namely a bit of behavior.

It would be a poor defense of the existence of his character if we said that really, his deeper tendency to obey united the seemingly incongruent bits of his behavior.

Sunday will be a deleted-scenes hour, where we'll advance nothing, but see hopefully juicy bits of bad behavior.

As a result, maybe he had a little bit of odd behavior, drank too much, and the rumors start.