Some scholars have linked social pressure to community size, advancing the notion that pressure to conform to social norms is heightened in smaller, less populous communities in which citizens interact frequently and where monitoring behavior is less onerous.
The svelte and buffed cricketer of today is almost literally half the man his predecessor was.And am I right that heightened professionalism has left less room in the changing room for entertaining oddballs such as one of my favourite batsmen, the straggle-haired and fidgety Derek Randall of Nottinghamshire?
Since conservatism can trigger earlier covenant violations, borrowers have heightened incentives to report less conservatively in the post-CDS period.
In other words, the gifted adolescents with more self-awareness of their creativity and heightened disciplined imagination were less likely to present unfair offers.
Relative to wild-type controls, Nrxn1α homozygous KO mice display heightened aggression toward, and less social investigation of, juvenile mice, while also expressing anxiety-like behavior in a light/dark box (Grayton, Missler, Collier, & Fernandes, 2013).
The implications of this pilot study are that septic medical ICU patients with AUD exhibit heightened stress response and less robust immune response in the setting of life threatening sepsis.
But in the case of um, heightening attention is less functional, because there is no reason to expect the next word anytime soon[6].
As nerves of drivers fray, the desire to deliver more, not less, throttle is heightened.
In this show, the colors have a heightened theatrical air — more Maria Callas, less Billie Holiday.
The economy's vulnerability to the weather is heightened by the fact that less than one-third of cropland is irrigated and that much farming is done at subsistence level without modern technology.
