Sentence examples for familiar behavior from inspiring English sources

The DSM committee dropped so-called passive-aggressive personality from the manual years ago, but the phrase is such an evocative description of a familiar behavior that it has become a fixture of the shared language.

It also stated that the Reuters employees "made no effort to visibly display their status as press or media representatives and their familiar behavior with, and close proximity to, the armed insurgents and their furtive attempts to photograph the coalition ground forces made them appear as hostile combatants to the Apaches that engaged them".

Most young readers have not-so-secret love affairs with Judy Blume at some point or another, largely for what she says in this clip from the Today show (via Jezebel), about a reader recognizing in her books a familiar behavior or desire and realizing that they're "not the only one".

So when Evan Tana went off to spin up his own mobile company while in residence at Greylock Partners, he tapped into a very familiar behavior.

Facebook Liking has also become a familiar behavior, so  so launch partners Instagram and Foursquare might see an uptick in sharing by replace their proprietary Like buttons with the Like Action.

Is there some sort of natural inclination to return to old and familiar behavior when we experience stress?

Unlike "unconscious" behavior, which is by definition, inaccessible to conscious thought, our familiar behaviors that take shape across perceptual and bodily space are pre-reflective; they make reflective experience possible, for without the pre-reflective modality, the act of reflection would have nothing to turn itself toward.

Such familiar behaviors as vertical integration, mergers and acquisitions to gain market share and pricing power, and global expansion all increase economies of scale on the supply side: factories, retail outlets, distribution networks, and other assets all can increase the capital base of an enterprise.

These familiar behaviors signal your brain that it's time to switch into creation mode and make things happen.

When we fear the pain that change brings, we get stuck inside the tiny bubble of our "comfort zone" that represents familiar behaviors, thoughts and feelings.

However, even if it is currently impossible to directly observe a certain type of behavior, categorizing it as distinct from other familiar behaviors is an important first step to building a picture of how the animal functions and interacts with its environment.