Sentence examples for was behaving less from inspiring English sources

This is the only explanation I have for why, weeks after I'd stopped doing the project, I scolded someone who was behaving less than generously on a very crowded train.

His plans for constitutional reform aside, Mr Brown has been behaving less like a thwarted ideologue than a bare-knuckles campaigner.

It was handy for the university, which is behaving less like a public institution than the big business it now is, flexing its muscles like the mill owner in a mill town.

But finally it exposes the dysfunctionality within the Republican party, whose conservative wing is behaving less like a mainstream electoral force than an ultra-left sect being advised by a petulant two-year-old.

During the 40-year struggle between communism and the democracies, each side was reluctant to let the other stick a finger into its friends' affairs, even when it was uneasily realised that those friends were behaving less than perfectly.

Then, she starts repeatedly calling Erik stupid, although for the most part he seems to be behaving less stupid than usual.

Even the models were behaving badly -- less dutiful mannequins and more petulant teenagers, hellbent on stomping to the end of the runway, turning, and high-tailing it out of the Grand Palais as fast as possible.

"I think what's changed is that the Russians are behaving more provocatively, if less frequently, and we are paying more attention to it," he said.

"They're behaving more like investors and less like traders.

They were behaving rationally.

They are behaving like children.