Sentence examples for troublesome behaviour from inspiring English sources

However during his early teens he battled with troublesome behaviour, turning to religion as a way of keeping off the streets.

In such settings as guidance offices, mental-health clinics, and psychiatric hospitals, tests of ability and personality may be helpful in the diagnosis and detection of troublesome behaviour.

John, a Lebanese-Australian newly released from jail, maintained a zero tolerance attitude towards the troublesome behaviour of his younger brother Charlie (Firass Dirani).

Those with special educational needs or troublesome behaviour are not desired by many schools, and the polarisation of schools that take children with SEN and disabilities and those that do not, is likely to increase".

Accordingly, it provides 'easy' means to managing troublesome behaviour.

Furthermore, young people in post-conflict settings arrive in school with profound exposure to social cruelties (UNICEF 1996) some exhibiting troubled and troublesome behaviour (Boyden and Rider 1996) for having participated in violence for survival, or forcefully recruited by militias equipping them with "power of the gun" (Sommers 2009 35).

Simple interventions (puzzles, music, and other structured activities, controlled access to food and drink) may help govern troublesome behaviours and contribute to a stable routine.

The content of these sessions is determined by the needs of each caregiver and other participating family members (eg, learning techniques for management of troublesome patient behaviour, and promoting communication among family members).

On the face of it, this is a good alternative to blaming them for being weak in some way: psychologist Mary Boyle has called this the "blame or brain" approach to troublesome emotions, behaviours and psychological experiences.

There are gin slings and tennis on the lawn and bees buzzing their "summer afternoon lullaby"; there is the reliable accumulation of children – Ursula is the third of five – and servants that are either touchingly steadfast or humorously difficult; there are beloved family dogs and treasured dolls and troublesome aunts whose bad behaviour can just about be absorbed.

They're lucid and capable enough in spite of their dementia but they've landed among people who've gone a long way downhill and whose behaviour is troublesome.