Sentence examples for likelihood of repeating from inspiring English sources

Rewards, such as praise and approval from parents, act as positive reinforcers of specific learned behaviours, while punishments decrease the likelihood of repeating such behaviours.

To imprison the former group is a waste of taxpayer money; for the latter group, imprisonment is essential, and sentencing laws should be based not on a fixed time period but on the likelihood of repeating the abuse upon release.

The problem with this approach is the likelihood of repeating the mistake.

"The likelihood of repeating of ethnic revenge is very high," he said.

But it's the moments when I catch myself feeling the onset of a buzz and giddily, euphorically grasping for more; or the times when I purposely sink into a haze to dull the sharp edges of the day; or the times when I know I don't need another drink, but summon the bartender anyway those are the times when I consider my own statistical likelihood of repeating the past.

It is likely that intermediate language processing mechanisms will be related to the likelihood of repeating a sentence correctly with repetition being easier for sentences that are understood correctly (Komeili & Marshall, 2013).

The likelihood of repeated prosecutions even if the defendants are sentenced to death is based on politics and a desire to treat the victims with equal dignity.

Conclusions: The data suggest that the rarer PR allele may be associated with an increased likelihood of repeated miscarriages contributing to its multi-factorial causes.

From an evolutionary perspective this complex host/p-endosymbiont interaction seems highly specialized and the likelihood of repeated endosymbiont replacement over time is unknown.

There have been at least two investigations of the likelihood of repeated adaptive evolution as a function of evolutionary time.

Here, the likelihood of repeated evolution should be proportional to the number of potential species-pairs across the phylogeny.