Sentence examples for patronising behaviour from inspiring English sources

"Unfortunately there was and can still be a lot of sexism and patronising behaviour, especially from the old boys in sport.

A new customer choice rule, which may model in some cases the actual patronising behaviour of customers towards the facilities closer to reality than other existing rules, is proposed.

A comparison with the classical proportional (or Huff) choice rule when solving the location model reveals that both the location and the quality of the new facility to be located may be quite different depending on the patronising behaviour of customers.

The new Commission also wants more economic immigration, even more patronising behaviour and even more meddling, all of which is certainly a particularly disgraceful state of affairs under the Treaty of Lisbon, which offers a far from reassuring perspective.

It's up to the north to show them how wrong they are, and to do so without aping the patronising behaviours that enforce the divide.

He warned that such attitudes were contributing to abuse ranging from patronising and impatient behaviour to actual physical mistreatment.

But as Tony Blair and David Blunkett recognised, this creates a vulnerability to the charge that the left excuses bad behaviour, patronising disadvantaged communities that are in fact much more judgmental than their self-appointed political champions.

At other times, Basil, Sybil and even the normally pleasant Polly prefer the patronising approach, excusing Manuel's behaviour with, "He's from Barcelona".

Staff attitudes and behaviour included infantilising and patronising approaches, respondents to the DH survey saying for example, "the use of endearments such as sweetheart, darling, poppet should be banned from health care language.

Ms Dabbagh dissects the problems facing the middle-class children of resistance heroes and leaders (not necessarily the same) and is scathing about the abstract and sometimes patronising attitudes of the concerned foreigners who still believe that better Palestinian behaviour might awake the so-called peace process from its profound coma.

They felt it was patronising to women (assuming that they could not control their fertility) and that it was the State dictating personal behaviour, e.g.: "I don't like that at all, I don't like the idea that we're treated as kind of breeders first and foremost.