Western stockmarkets habitually apply a discount to conglomerates' shares.Yet there is more to these groups than cronyism.
A series of Obama officials denounced Israel in terms more scathing than anything they habitually apply to the monstrous provocations of Venezuela, North Korea or Iran.
Similarly, it would be of interest to investigate whether the skill of recognizing mechanisms (i.e., identifying the parts and operations involved in a system, and determining the underlying relations) can be taught to students such that they are able to independently and habitually apply this thinking to novel mechanisms, and whether this would lead to mathematical improvements.
As both these systems (PBSS and the private bicycles) have their advantages and disadvantages, this paper seeks to compare the distances for which PBSS and private bicycles are habitually used by applying a propensity score matching-based model.
§ 18. Don't habitually use parenthetical shorthand names.
It's applied to anyone who habitually leaves work the moment the hands of the clock tick round to half-past five – or whatever the formal end-of-day time may be.
The term "neurons that fire together wire together" applies to how we habitually react to conflict as it does to all of our brains' countless predilections.
When he was questioned by the committee, McClellan — applying the same temerity he habitually showed in the field — swore that his only knowledge of the Ball's Bluff affair was what General Stone had told him.
Low quality also applies to companies that have habitually booked restructuring charges and asset writeoffs, which often have the effect of undoing overly optimistic accounting assumptions and overstated earnings–in earlier years.
The strategies derive from a counterconditioning treatment model: patients are exposed (either naturally or by design) to situations that may evoke anger, while they apply physiological, cognitive, and/or behavioral methods that can dampen the habitually angry response.
Or to Walmart's chief executive, whose annual base pay is close to $1 million and whose home sits on nearly 100 acres of land in Bentonville, Ark.? Grateful people have been habitually dismissed as "chumps," and in this hypothetical case, the term would seem to apply.
