These processes are acquired through habit, being usually inflexible and hard do control or modify.
Marine atheriniforms are mostly predators, the predatory habit being most highly developed in the garfishes and needlefishes, with their long, formidably toothed jaws.
There loomed the danger of a national habit being broken (with viewers who'd wandered off to cable or iPods or the Internet perhaps continuing to stay away).
What stops them is the war on the streets and the fact that, owing to the small matter of their habit being illegal, their fix is hard to come by.
"But then, as they say, who knows?" Habit being what it is, I search around for a more cheerful note on which to end our conversation: office gossip at the Observer, the state of British fiction, Christmas shopping.
That afternoon, he tweeted some puns, his habit — another habit being his YouTube channel where he has for the past few years been covering songs, all songs, almost every song, one at a time from a different room in his house.
