Sentence examples for long-established habit from inspiring English sources

Fortunately the Chinese have a long-established habit of taking the long view.

My long-established habit of solitude had left me completely isolated and without the resources to reach out.

Does marriage have such revolutionary power that a long-established habit can be overthrown in such a short time?

Of course, a cooking summit meeting alone is not going to change long-established habits.

Big kiss G&G Updated at 12.46pm BST 12.35pm BST LindesayI asks: Your work has broken much new ground, but you also seem very attached – as living sculptures, anyway – to a set of long-established habits and routines.

"Time will tell whether this measure is tough enough to deal with the long-established habits of advisers who act with lawyers, accountants or bankers and help rich individuals and large companies avoid tax," she said.

Taken together, these developments have emboldened mass transit enthusiasts here and lent credibility to what has become something of a legacy project for Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, who ran for office pledging to build a transit system that would upend long-established commuting habits and ease what has long been a bane of life in Los Angeles.

The authors believe that some of the items listed above are true barriers and others are "pseudo" barriers caused more by general resistance to information systems for the forced changes they impose on long-established practice habits rather than the systems themselves.

As with the creation of the single currency, many meetings, some new laws and a bit of money could gradually change long-established bad nationalist habits.

It is precisely when folk beliefs, fear and stigma attached to serious illness are most deeply rooted, in the way Steinberg shows so well, that forceful truth-telling by a country's leaders becomes most important to create a sea change in long-established attitudes and habits.

These distortions may temporally influence execution of a behavior, but are not expected to influence a long established habit.