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Not only is Mr Thaksin's popular mandate rather more credible than Ms Arroyo's, his tactics in letting the voters be the ultimate judges of his comportment are somewhat more democratic.
In other words, voters did not simply refuse to vote for Mr Kinnock because of his look, voice and comportment.
One of his chief exhibits is the Republicans' comportment during the past year of divided government.
But he is not yet top man, and his comportment in America was under close scrutiny back home.
Mr Jin says that China's comportment with America is much more mature than it used to be and notes that the two sides enjoy much better channels of communication than they had".Chinese belligerence on the South China Sea is mainly for domestic reasons," agrees Pang Zhongying, also of Renmin University a bold statement considering how much the Chinese belligerence is shaking up the Asia-Pacific.
You have only to remember his comportment during that extraordinary moment when the white minority running South Africa plotted to assassinate China's president during a visit to Zimbabwe, and then to use nuclear weapons against Zimbabwe's tiny army.
If her victory in Ames was no great surprise an evangelical Christian with hard-boiled pro-life, anti-gay-marriage credentials was always likely to prosper in the God-fearing cornfields of Iowa her disciplined comportment as a campaigner has been.
The issue of Jerusalem was on the negotiating agenda, and the Holy See was determined to press its interests in the city.But John Paul's comportment in the Jewish state seemed to signify more than just an expedient accommodation.
The very term "Victorianism," perhaps the only "ism" in history attached to the name of a sovereign, not only became synonymous with a cluster of restraining moral attributes character, duty, will, earnestness, hard work, respectable comportment and behaviour, and thrift but also came to be strongly associated with a new version of private life.
In contrast, grandchildren and grandparents often engaged in mild ribbing; when praise for good behaviour proved insufficient, this was the preferred way to remind a child of appropriate comportment.
The core of canonical literature in the southern Buddhist Theravada (Pali: "Way of the Elders") tradition is vinaya (regulations concerning comportment ), which is said to be the Buddha's own formulation of more than 200 rules for his monks.
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The primary grammatical function of "comportment" is as a noun . It refers to the way in which someone behaves or conducts themselves. Ludwig AI's examples demonstrate its use in describing the behavior of individuals, groups, or even nations.
Expression frequency: Very common
