Sentence examples for habit dictates from inspiring English sources
This habit dictates frequent trips to the bathroom, after which, being genteelly reared, I wash my hands.
"Why should we have our drinking habits dictated by Hemingway's diabetes problem?" he asked.
Spending habits dictate how much you can save.
Both have lost, at least for now, their old habit of dictating terms to the government.
As was his habit, Justice Blackmun dictated a memo to himself while he was preparing to hear the argument in the case.
The definition of tobacco addiction is controversial, but the scientists used widely accepted criteria to diagnose dependence and a well-validated questionnaire to determine the extent to which smokers had allowed the habit to dictate their behavior.
"He has bullied the corporation over its editorial line on Europe, and continued his habit of dictating to the BBC what content it should and should not be commissioning," she told the Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
Over time, these can become internalized as unconscious decision rules or heuristics, such that, when particular situations are encountered (e.g., being unexpectedly assigned a new course), habit may dictate individual behavior (Greeno [1998]).
These difficulties included having to endure McCartney's habit of dictating how the others should play their instruments and Lennon's increasing withdrawal from the band and emotional dependence on his ever-present partner, Yoko Ono.
Two ornithologists conducted an experiment in order to see whether habit or instinct dictate the larger part of the activities of the ordinary American robin.
By Frank Sullivan The New Yorker, October 11 , 1930 P. 27Two ornithologists conducted an experiment in order to see whether habit or instinct dictate the larger part of the activities of the ordinary American robin.
