Sentence examples similar to conditioned to something from inspiring English sources

Competition among Internet retailers has become so fierce that I have become conditioned to getting something -- free shipping, a coupon, half off, something -- for nothing.

For the record, England fans were praised for their behaviour during the World Cup by Japanese authorities conditioned to expect something far worse.

We've just been conditioned to assume its something you have to pay for after decades of investors handing Scottrade, E*Trade and other brokerages $7 to $10 for each buy or sell.

6. Get Into the Swapping Spirit - Many of us have been conditioned to think that something needs to be shiny and new to have value.

And if you're going to attach conditions to something, you need to be abundantly clear about them.

But in attributing the ability to express a condition to something that is manifestly unable to do so, Shrigley is having a go at the infantilising anthropomorphism currently sloshing around daily culture: the coffee cup which has "Careful – I'm hot!" printed on it; or, as I saw recently on a tourist double-decker the other day, "Sorry – I'm not in service".

In the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Rousseau imagines a multi-stage evolution of humanity from the most primitive condition to something like a modern complex society.

"It's part of contemporary culture that we are conditioned to read or interpret something in a particular way.

You just think you do because your ego is conditioned to believing it has something to prove.

We often become conditioned to believe that if something isn't hard (especially in an area like work), then it's not worth doing, that we're not giving our all - i.e., the all-or-nothing mentality.

Unfortunately, we have been conditioned to immediately assume there must something more to a story when we see killers like Eric Harris and Adam Lanza act out.