Sentence examples for demanding behavior from inspiring English sources

Wu witnessed acts of disrespect toward migrants, in the form of routine insults, hot tempers, and demanding behavior every few days.

One theme of our sessions has been how to deal with the daughter's "demanding behavior".

Regardless, it is making the rounds of New York law firms and Web sites like Gawker.com, circulated by associates and paralegals eager to expose what they see as the capricious and demanding behavior of partners.

She sees that her student was stuck in a cycle in which he had discovered that demanding behavior would get him what he wanted.

She developed behavioral problems at an early age, showing hyperactivity, restlessness, distractibility, echolalia and a very demanding behavior.

A plausible interpretation is that dysfunction of metabolic processes can lead to a lower propensity to expend energy on demanding behaviors.

Since females usually engage in more energetically demanding behaviors than males to attain reproductive success, it has been proposed that sexual differences may have arisen as an evolutionary adaptation to such differences in energetic demands [ 47].

For instance, brain size was found to positively correlate with cognitively demanding behaviors such as tool use in birds (Tebbich and Bshary 2004), brood care in cichlids (Gonzalez-Voyer et al. 2008), and bower complexity in bower birds (Madden 2001).

Alternatively, small introns may simply mirror reduced genomes and thus reduced cell sizes, which increase the surface to volume ratio and permit a greater rate of gas change per unit volume (Hughes and Hughes 1995), therefore beneficial for metabolically demanding behaviors.

Moreover, intron size also varies between species, and it has been proposed that avian intron sizes, such as genome sizes, are reduced in comparison with mammals partially because of the selection pressure imposed by metabolically demanding behaviors, such as flight (Hughes and Hughes 1995), where small introns provide a slightly improved transcription efficiency or splicing accuracy (Lynch 2002).

Let your older child get lots of positive attention for being helpful and competent and he or she will be less likely to try to get attention by being whiny, helpless, and demanding (behaviors which, after all, seem to be working great for the baby).