Sentence examples for wayward behavior from inspiring English sources

A recent spate of Chinese officials have found themselves ensnared by extortion schemes that leverage the public's mounting disgust for wayward behavior.

Increased police presence in the subways discouraged wayward behavior, he said, from scrawling graffiti to riding on or alongside train cars.

Nonetheless, one seasoned Occupy organizer, by way of the Middle East, does blame the wayward behavior of a minority for "destroying Occupy as a functioning entity".

A subplot involves the coming wedding of Ally's more proper younger sister, Daisy (Ari Graynor), to another dreamboat (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), and the disapproval of Ally's wayward behavior by the sisters' snobbish mother, Ava (Blythe Danner).

When South African park rangers recently introduced a number of older bull elephants into several destabilized elephant herds in Pilanesburg and Addo, the wayward behavior — including unusually premature hormonal changes among the adolescent elephants — abated.

For all the concern in some quarters about North Korea's wayward behavior, that dread of losing a buffer still prevails among China's most influential policy makers, particularly in the military, according to Jia Qingguo, a professor at Beijing University's School of International Studies who is a proponent of a new policy toward North Korea.

Disturbing as it may sound, such wayward mating behavior is not unheard-of.

The fresh face and disarming underdog America's been waiting for, someone who suffered through his parents' divorce, watched his mom go on welfare and survived some wayward youthful behavior to become disciplined and successful — a lawyer, a lawmaker and a devoted family guy who does dog duty.

The female deferral of maturity, as explored in "Girls," feels like both a fresher and a more contentious topic, partly because of sexual double standards, and partly because women are cast, by default, as the mothers and wives whose job is to regulate wayward male behavior.

In an interview Wednesday, Lawrence R. Goldfarb, managing partner of BayStar, explained why his hedge fund originally invested in SCO and detailed for the first time what he regarded as the wayward corporate behavior on SCO's part that led to the recent split.

(She looks every inch the Eisenhower-era ingénue in Jonathan Fensom's summer dresses.) She also evokes, in addition to the expected tremulous anguish, the instinctive strategist within Lili's wayward, seemingly irrational behavior.