Sentence examples for some piece of behavior from inspiring English sources

Even if a plausible-sounding story can be told about how some piece of behavior would have helped early hunter-gatherers survive and reproduce, it may well have become established earlier and for different reasons.

"There was no intentional decision to exclude a piece of behavior," said Sarah Davies, senior vice president of analytics, research and product management at VantageScore Solutions, a joint venture of the three major credit reporting companies.

"The consequences in a complex system like a hospital for giving an incentive for one little piece of behavior are virtually impossible to foresee," said Dr. David U. Himmelstein, professor of public health at the City University of New York and a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School, who has reviewed the literature on performance incentives.

It is when we identify religion as an anomaly whose precise configuration must be described that we get ourselves into trouble and fall to debating, as religion clause jurisprudence endlessly does, whether this particular ceremony or piece of behavior is "properly religious".

In the philosophy of action we ask what the facts are in virtue of which a given piece of behavior is an intentional action; in questions about personal identity we ask what the facts are in virtue of which x and y are the same person; in ethics we ask what the facts are in virtue of which a given action is morally right or wrong.

When cats started becoming friendly towards us, maybe 5,000 to 10,000 years ago, they just adapted this piece of behavior to show that they like us, too," he continued.

Everybody wanted some piece of the revolt.

Government taking some piece of the loss.

This man is some piece of work.

To be sure, some pieces of data -- particularly information about a customer's behavior -- have been enormously useful to certain industries.

Some pieces of silk were left plain.