Sentence examples for certain patterns of action from inspiring English sources

Culture is characterized as a "tool kit," providing "publicly available meanings [that] facilitate certain patterns of action, making them readily available, while discouraging others" (Swidler 1986 283).

While individual actors have "practical skills" that are drawn from this scaffolding, which facilitates certain patterns of action, the culture they "know" and "use" is neither coherent nor strongly internalized (ibid).

They were looking for certain patterns of activity that would indicate he might be lying.

Certain patterns of answers, however, can and do disqualify them.

The results show certain patterns of preference among the users.

Certain patterns of events correspond to specific behaviors.

Certain patterns of speed changes can help trim the number of possibilities.

Orchestras -- even temporary orchestras -- have a way of falling into certain patterns of sound, and here was the opportunity to disrupt those patterns more assertively.

Why do certain patterns of time-sharing predominate in specific cultures?

Finally, we argue that certain patterns of foreseeable harms are unfair.

This has worked well but leads to certain patterns of aliasing, or pixelation.