Sentence examples for puzzling behaviour from inspiring English sources

Policymakers who once blamed this puzzling behaviour on raging hormones now point to neuroscience.

One of the more intriguing conundrums in fluid dynamics is the puzzling behaviour of bubbles in Guinness, the famous Irish stout.

The action is filtered through the consciousness of Rose's younger sister Cecily, a dreamy 13-year-old, forced to spy on the puzzling behaviour of adults, as she falls helplessly in love with a childhood friend.

Futures contracts imply that the central bank will raise short-term rates at each of its next three meetings to 3%, but will then stop, so there will be virtually no more Fed tightening in the second half of 2005 or in 2006.If that is puzzling, the behaviour of long-term interest rates is even odder.

Faced with puzzling behavior?

Unlike Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, the spectre that haunts the world of aviation even as it stresses the relative safety of flying, this disappearance has not been accompanied by puzzling patterns of behaviour from the flight deck or radar.

Addressing a parliamentary committee today, for instance, he said that he wanted to avoid a proxy fight when the company's board comes together for a special meeting (possibly in February) to discuss a change of management and corporate governance reforms.More puzzling is the behaviour of Olympus's auditors: KPMG and Ernst & Young, which took over from KPMG in 2009.

Numerous experimental and field studies have shown a link between the lack of self-control and a wide range of puzzling phenomena of human behaviour, such as cheating [3], lack of prosocial behaviour [4] and unwise decision-making by people living in poverty [5].

This difference in phoretic behaviour is puzzling because the two species of lice have very similar life cycles and are equally dependent on transmission to new hosts.

This behaviour was puzzling in the context of classical electromagnetic waves, whose energies are proportional to intensity and independent of frequency.

And Richard Sosis, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut, has already done some research which suggests that the long-term co-operative benefits of religion outweigh the short-term costs it imposes in the form of praying many times a day, avoiding certain foods, fasting and so on.Leviticus's childrenOn the face of things, it is puzzling that such costly behaviour should persist.