He has a disconcerting habit of talking very seriously and then suddenly withdrawing. |
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People say that he doesn't smile much, but he has a throaty chuckle and the disconcerting habit of laughing when he is cross. |
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Blowing smoke across a room is not much different and the grossly discourteous and rude habit in which smokers engaged was awful. |
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I do not deny that there are patients with chronic abdominal pain and altered bowel habit that defy analysis. |
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It's a disgusting habit that really mystifies and intrigues me at the same time. |
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It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. |
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The event encourages smokers to kick the habit for 24 hours in hopes they'll give it up for good. |
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And he had the habit of often making obscene, vulgar, or profane comments to other people he associated with, whether he knew them or not. |
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She's got this truly terrible habit of emphasising random syllables in news reports. |
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This helps them develop a sense of responsibility and a habit for doing these tasks. |
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He had begun pacing the cave, a nervous habit of his, stopping at the end of his speech to stare at Marcy with deep-rooted concern. |
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He had taken up that nasty habit lately, but I assumed it was just because he was teething. |
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It seems I'm prone to these quick getaways because I have a habit of thinking I can't possibly take days off. |
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She was buried in Mantua in the habit of a Franciscan tertiary, with the cord and the scapular, as the Modenese chronicler Lancellotti reports. |
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Also, where a habit of rejogging each of the piles has been established, the speed of the sheeter is limited by a man's capacity to rejog. |
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Helsinki's habit of keeping a low profile means that its attractions have also stayed out of the limelight. |
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He's had the habit of owning something for ten years then just getting rid of it for double the price of what he paid for it. |
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His mother has a habit of coming back into our lives every eight to 10 months. |
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Rae had a habit for flinging her arms around when she talked-added dramatics. |
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The following day saw the opportunity for him to get back into the habit of low-level flying. |
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Not really hungry, the trio dined early and lightly, eating, as it were, out of habit rather than desire. |
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He had made it a habit long ago to rise with the sun every morning, and today was no exception. |
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At some point during the above, she also apparently picked up the habit of talking in third person. |
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Laura had a bad habit of biting her nails and told Sara to hit her anytime she caught her. |
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He had never justified his habit by denying that smoking was bad for his health, he knew it was, but that didn't make him enjoy it any less. |
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The performances gain from free expression and improvisation and Soderbergh's habit of shooting in single takes. |
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He had a habit of flashing the wads of cash his benevolent son sent home to him. |
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A drug user who admitted heroin dealing to fund his habit has been jailed for five years. |
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Meal times, as well as the habit of tea-drinking, were adopted from the British colonial period. |
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The habit of felids to use primarily their forelimbs to capture prey is supported by the anatomy and function of their retractile claws. |
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Let's not mention his annoying habit of emphasising words by putting them in capitals. |
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About a year ago my body got into the annoying habit of waking up around 5am. |
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I got into the very annoying habit of doodling on the back of business cards. |
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One has a very annoying habit of trying to speak at the same time as the tutor. |
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Seasoned watchers of him will attest to his annoying habit of fading out of games and trying to be too clever at times. |
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She opened her mouth to say something but Adrian cut her off. It was an annoying habit he had. |
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He had an annoying habit of standing at windows when he wanted to intimidate her. |
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Restarauteurs and cinema chains have an annoying habit of filling a glass half with Coke and half with ice, no doubt to make it go further. |
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There's about three of them, and they have this annoying habit of telling jokes most of the day. |
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I read it closely and annotated it extensively, as is my habit in reading generally. |
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The game has a nasty habit of respawning enemies, especially in cleared areas, so you can expect to see defeated foes again and again. |
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The team's winning habit has been so relentless these last two years, but adversity asks more searching questions. |
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Why would a judge make a habit of not assigning counsel or, in a contract system, condone lawyering that is like nothing at all? |
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They still dressed as if the were the reflection of yin and yang, but that had become pure habit by now. |
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I've been trying to do more, lately, but I have a hard time ingraining things as habit sometimes. |
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So the only thing keeping the reporters in line is their ingrained habit of deference towards a wartime president. |
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Now at nearly 21 the habit is too ingrained to break, if asked I say nothing, I would rather people did not waste their money on me. |
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And it has to be said that this particular topic has a habit of coming around at least once every few years. |
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I have the habit of leaving film in my camera until I've forgotten what was on it. |
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My insufferably rich and terribly nice friend Leo has this habit of taking social misfits under his wing. |
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They're way too comfortable making unreliable chrome-encrusted land yachts that people buy out of habit and fear. |
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We are creatures of habit and only feel comfortable with people we are used to. |
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He's developed an unexpected habit of scoring goals and that is a priceless quality to be found in a midfielder. |
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His habit of showing silent actions accompanied by radically different kinds of music, is only intermittently effective. |
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Neither team won the home internationals, something that has become more a habit than a surprise. |
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Anthony is a controversial figure and has a habit of saying things just to drum up a bit of publicity. |
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The song Old Man River reminds us that the habit of investing waterways with something like a soul is an old one. |
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I had to move to a less demanding role because my lower back had a bad habit of going berko about 10 days into a two-week exercise. |
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School bank accounts were available and many children banked small amounts from their pocket money each week to learn the habit of saving. |
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They were presented with lifetime achievement awards by the Pace Charitable Trust which is making it a habit to come up with off-beat invites. |
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The president has faced criticism for his habit of heading overseas just as domestic crises flare out of control. |
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He was in the habit of using his microscope iris to adjust the valve settings on the engine of his lovingly maintained Triumph Dolomite Sprint. |
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The adoption of inspired main titles that provide no clue as to the subject of the book has become a bad habit in academic publishing. |
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Mother has a bad habit of seeing to it that antiques are duly re-finished and polyurethaned. |
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It has the habit of swimming in small shoals around patches of flotsam, or floating logs, and is attracted by rafts or drifting boats. |
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All forms of popular culture have a habit of exaggerating the gifts of their fallen heroes. |
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Consumers should know what is good for them and make it a habit to at least read the ingredients written on the packets. |
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Considering this, it's only logical that swimmers ought to make it a habit to practice movements that are smooth, unhurried and fluent. |
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He cursed out of a regular habit as he pulled the flush down on the toilet. |
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For every smoker who claims to enjoy the habit there are countless others who are desperate to stop. |
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Chimpanzees and whisky jacks share the habit of assembling jumbles of trash. |
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Contemporary chroniclers based in England had a habit of bemoaning the cost and absence of results of such campaigns. |
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Episiotomy was invented to facilitate forceps deliveries and has continued mainly out of habit not necessity. |
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I have been in the habit of going there regularly since the forepart of January last until the first of March, going twice or three times a week. |
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I found the CD of choice and popped it in, cranking the volume up as was my habit when I was upset. |
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It is a habit that will fortify the child's character and help him grow into a well-balanced, beautiful person. |
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Clubs have a habit of recording their histories, usually to celebrate jubilees or centenaries, though sometimes to mourn mergers or closures. |
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She also had a disturbing habit of staring at me creepily, long after we finished exchanging words. |
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We are not in the habit of using semantics, textual analysis, critical theory and metaphors. |
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If we made a habit of yielding to prejudice we would restore capital punishment, stone people to death and drown old crones in pointed hats. |
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Built like a sergeant major, she has this parade ground habit of issuing orders, not requests. |
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It has grown out of a family habit of telling stories and reading aloud at bedtime. |
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It is the habit of crows to perch like sentinels on the tops of isolated trees, where they can see what is going on in all directions. |
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In a word, he looked exactly like the ape dressed in the habit of a merry andrew, except that he had no hair. |
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Johnny began as a slightly offbeat freewheeler, with a habit of tossing silver dollars around as tips. |
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During the breeding season they develop a golden wash on the upper wing due to their habit of nesting in the fronds of the palm trees. |
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But instead of following her usual habit of leaving early to beat the rush, her son Shaun insisted the group stayed to the end. |
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They had a habit for wearing breeches under their dresses for such little rides like these. |
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Worse, Filler constantly breaks into cutesy song snippets, a habit that grows less endearing every time it happens. |
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The taller plants produced from early cuttings also have a bad habit of losing their lower leaves. |
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Certain shows have a habit of becoming part of the furniture so you feel a loss when they're gone. |
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Brazilians love soccer and adopted their habit to the beach where foot volley or beach volleyball is very common. |
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She used to be such a daddy's girl and her new habit of distancing herself from him hurt more than he could describe. |
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Brown also tried to barehand a hot smash in the sixth inning, a reckless habit he has had his entire career. |
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It is a process of adaptation, a habit acquired with effort, pain, and tedium. |
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Do you make it a habit to see that each shrub is facing precisely in the direction it should be? |
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The former Education Minister, K. Anbazhagan, who is in the habit of chewing betel leaves, used to be honoured with green garlands. |
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It was always his habit to lock everything, and since David Lash's remodeling of the living room, Jim had put in stronger deadbolts. |
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On the other hand, it may very well be that proselyting the world has become so ingrained a habit that no change is possible. |
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I had not gone off my habit of collecting matchbooks and matchboxes from places I visited, but sadly, they were not available here. |
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In some instances, a habit may be the result or the cause of a physical or psychological problem. |
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I have a habit of stopping myself from crying, I don't know quite why, especially as I am somewhat the spokesperson for free expression. |
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It is becoming a taboo habit now and there are far more non-smokers than puffers. |
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For one thing, the author has a nasty habit of separating sentences with a comma, when a semi-colon would be far more appropriate. |
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When a real threat emerges, his lifelong habit of hiding behind false identities is suddenly and devastatingly exposed. |
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You have to understand that he had a habit of making grandiloquent statements. |
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It's not that I make a habit of accosting MPs in health food shops, it's just that I mistakenly believed I knew him. |
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Five years later, he stopped taking drugs after an Esquire magazine cover story described his habit in graphic detail. |
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I know of a professor who was in the habit of deducting marks in examinations for bad spelling, poor grammar or clumsy sentences. |
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Their type of skepticism about what is good or bad by nature allowed Pyrrhonists to choose and avoid things according to habit and custom. |
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This is a South Australian plant with a low spreading habit with 'eggs and bacon' flowers in spring. |
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His adultery could be a constant, desperate search for love, or just an old habit that dies hard. |
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Tests for interaction or trend, however, did not suggest differential benefits according to smoking habit in either trial. |
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Deprived of the Internet by a balky cell phone modem, the habit of daily blogging has proven hard to break. |
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When people start to speak from habit they enter into those well worn grooves of social conformity and confirmation. |
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A European-American habit of history is to destroy things and then to elegize them, like the memorial to the last passenger pigeon. |
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My habit with the coffee is I put a cinnamon stick in the filter with the grounds so my coffee tastes cinnamon-like. |
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It was a habit left over from the old days when the king and his ministers were thus warned of danger. |
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He had a habit of using straight and direct speech and he favored long, vaguely charging words to describe battle, and other things perhaps. |
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These days, a friendship with Pete Doherty and a habit of guerrilla gigging virtually guarantee success. |
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Yet habit is the linchpin for the philosophical way of thinking that James called radical empiricism, and later pragmatism. |
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Molly, a servant, had the disconcerting habit of periodically dropping on her knees for a quick prayer. |
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With a disconcerting habit of coming on stage dressed in a red Lycra superhero costume, he seems to set the tone for the rest of the night. |
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The bad news for them is that Argentina, alone among G20 countries, has a habit of cocking a snook at ICSID rulings. |
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I observed here and there many in the habit of servants, with a blown bladder fastened like a flail to the end of a short stick, which they carried in their hands. |
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It also discourages the dangerous habit of footboard travelling. |
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Leaving accommodation to chance is a habit fraught with disappointment. |
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He has made a habit of emotional farewells and fraught departures. |
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For even cultivation, make a habit of occasionally retracting the piston rod. |
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The fern most prized by the Maori was Asplenium bulbiferum, the hen and chicken fern, so called because of its habit of producing new plants on the old fronds. |
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Turbulence within the super-hot plasma has a nasty habit of transporting the heat out as fast as colossal electric currents and particle beams can shovel it in. |
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Discussing private matters in public has become a habit in Europe and the U.S. For years, Americans have complained about cell phone users who gab in public. |
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I funded my habit by roaming the streets and beaches looking for glass softdrink bottles that I'd trade in to the dairy for two or four cents each. |
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There is literal truth in the proverb that habit is second nature. |
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Addicted gamers can sign up for the program where they try to kick the habit of gold farming, going on epic raids and beating just one more level. |
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Olympics have a habit of inducing these purgative phases in host cities. |
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Living in a work of art is a luxury always available to the rich, but also within the grasp of anyone who is in the habit of saving for a holiday. |
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The usually dilatory official whose habit it is to charge extra for administration costs suddenly works studiously, and earnestly, organizing the charity effort. |
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Dressed in an apricot evening gown for the try-out, Lola is a delightful character with an unhealthy habit for collecting knick-knacks and memories. |
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Lung cancer has become the most common cause of cancer deaths due to increased tobacco habit and environmental pollutants especially automobile exhausts. |
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There's no sign that any monarch would have recognised the concept, given that throughout history they'd a habit of claiming dominion over many nations. |
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The sporophyte has a creeping habit and is dorsiventrally flattened. |
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Out of long habit and the conduct that my training had ingrained in me, I immediately dropped a curtsy, despite having been caught off guard by the unexpected introduction. |
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Sophrosyne is honored not only by the ancient philosophers, but also by the dramatists and historians, as that habit of character that enables human beings to attain wholeness and avoid the tragic disasters that occur when we forget who we are. |
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I never knew a person become insane who was not in the habit of taking a portion of alcohol daily. |
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Attempts to introduce western political models into poor countries have a habit of coming unstuck: look at Africa or Cambodia. |
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Those expressing surprise at NBC's lineup must be in the habit of sleeping late. |
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Minke whales appear to be in the habit of weaning their calves before returning to their feeding grounds. |
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It became my habit to sit on the back steps with my own glass of wine and watch the woodchuck get schnockered. |
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Then make it a habit to visit OCLC's official blogs-you can even join the conversation by posting your own comments. |
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McGurl thinks that this habit of self-observation is not restricted to writing programs. |
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Maybe on pure habit of swallowing, but he got the water down. |
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Even in the smallest things, I hope you will make it a habit to keep your word, your decisions and intentions. |
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Pauline, a lifelong screwup, resents Margot's habit of dropping incidents from the family's life into her fictions. |
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He is agonized by time's nasty habit of protracting itself in moments of anguish or tedium. |
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The free market economy has not stopped an unhealthy habit which causes hundreds of thousands of deaths and costs taxpayers billions. |
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Well, some novice believers may tell a lie from time to time by habit of the old self that they haven't laid aside. |
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I was being motivated by habit and fear of regression, rather than by inspiration to progress. |
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From there, new words are born in order to give birth to a new life, beyond the words over used by habit and banality. |
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Consumption demand is characterised by habit formation households will be slow to adapt their consumption in line with a change in income level. |
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We have the habit of enrolling our actions in a process tending toward an objective more or less consciously predetermined. |
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Ontario's three-party politics has a habit of throwing up last-minute electoral surprises. |
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Initially she considered aerophagia, in which the habit of swallowing air causes bloating and discomfort. |
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It's also important to get into the habit of checking your bank account regularly. |
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Don't obsess over the amount you save, just get into the habit of doing it. |
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By making breakfast a family affair, however, kids and parents will get into the habit of starting the day off with good nutrition and energy. |
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Through this tax credit, the Federal Government is helping to encourage children to get into the habit of daily physical activity. |
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They get into the habit of bilingualism ? the creative, exciting mindset of seeing everything through two windows. |
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Both at the time of practice and at the important time, to get into the habit of keeping your ordinary and constant mind is the best way. |
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In short, investors should get into the habit of indexing their contribution every year or every time their income changes. |
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Through this tax credit, we are helping children get into the habit of regular physical activity. |
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She was frequently teased by children, says Nayab Khan, for her habit of running around without a burqa. |
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Following abolition of the Lupercalia, young lovers from Rome adopted the romantic habit of exchanging love messages. |
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In fact, it is a very simple habit of young lovers. They dress exactly the same way when they go out during the week-end. |
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When one has the habit of dirtying on a daily basis, any amount of daily cleaning is no answer. |
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He carried the habit through a number of upscale academies and prep schools, managing to get routinely expelled for poor marks and a strong anti-authoritarian streak. |
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It's good for the adult child's self-esteem to know he's not a moocher, and that he gets in the habit of paying a monthly amount. |
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If you are not already in the habit of praying the rosary as a family, this may feel awkward at first. |
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The habit of painting had just taken over, rather than my having some end in view. |
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It's not as if they have a habit of clamming up in the presence of reporters. |
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And the 1994 deal did its part to encourage Mr Kim in his extortionist habit of acting up and then pocketing placatory goodies, time and again. |
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His mustache has expanded into a goatee, and his habit of protruding his jaw, in mock incredulousness, can give him the aspect of a bulldog. |
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Taking care of dozens of adolescent girls taught me the greatest habit in life: doing acts of kindness without thinking twice. |
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AddTasks is a utility program that is a timesaver for those in the habit of creating multiple tasks the wording of which is quite similar. |
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Fear and force of habit make it hard to imagine a life without cigarettes and can make you doubt your ability to stop. |
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How does hair oiling in India or the habit of diluting laundry powder for use in machines in China affect fragrance performance? |
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And that habit can put your home, work, relationships, body and mind out of balance. |
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For three years while a quarter of a million kids pick up the habit the government has been diddling around doing nothing. |
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The awareness to cut the thread and engraft new habit makes you follow the Yogic path. |
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In other words, Mr Karzai may have to curb his infuriating habit of disowning the war whenever he finds it convenient. |
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A good habit to get into is applying a hand cream every time you wash your hands. |
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Learning the habit of staying with a buddy when going places can be taught and practiced at school in routine activities. |
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Śāntarakṣita argues that love and hatred exist due to habit and repetition which is ascertained by confirming and disconfirming concomitance. |
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New York has a habit of devouring its young, leaving the bones in the unswept street and moving on. |
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His baptismal name was Máximo Mateo, but when he received the Dominican habit he was given the name Jesús. |
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Quit 4 Life is an interactive 4 step program aimed to get you motivated to kick the habit and to stay smoke-free. |
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Kick the habit is the theme of this year's World Environment Day on 5 June, a call for worldwide action against global warming. |
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The highest priority is to implement a policy that would help users kick the habit when they decided to, not just when a judge ordered them to. |
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So if you smoke, kick the habit now to reveal more healthy and vibrant-looking skin. |
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This became a laughingstock as over a period of decades the Liberals made a habit of making that commitment and never actually keeping it. |
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The bad habit of putting off reception of the sacrament must be discontinued. |
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The benefits of technology have a perfidious habit of flowing to the users not the inventors. |
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It has a habit of eating away the souls causing the illusion of death to them. |
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In its broad meaning, equity denotes the spirit and the habit of fairness, justness and right dealing. |
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This world is getting away from us, just like a materialistic reality in which we were in the habit of believing in. |
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This is the opposite of the wishy-washy habit of copying the actions and mannerisms of other people. |
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Just notice that he doesn't get into a habit of using low tones to get attention or sympathy from you. |
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Self-censorship can start from a bad experience and become a bad habit that destroys professional journalism. |
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Equally important is that supervisors refrain from certain forms of meddlesome micro-management simply out of habit or a fear of losing control. |
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Don't get into the habit of making another meal when your child refuses to eat the one you fixed: it only encourages capriciousness. |
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I am not in the habit of answering rhetorical questions, but it is a serious rhetorical question. |
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The Lebanese have a healthy habit of laughing at themselves. |
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Her sporting journey started with trampolining but she was forced to quit that because of a rather dangerous habit of passing out mid-air. |
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My stepson has an annoying habit of getting up very early for a shower. |
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In that run-up, their habit is to make announcements on things that we have been advocating for, but always they abbreviate the announcement. |
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As is its habit with the majority of bills, the government included a series of scattered and ill-assorted measures in the same bill. |
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They were dressed for a trip, Paul in a simple and elegant suit of dark blue and Dix in a sophisticated traveling habit of emerald green with black ribbing. |
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Newspapers catering for less patient readers made do with snappy accounts of the duke's soldierly habit of cleaning his own shoes. |
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A habit of pilfering foreigners' ideas can discourage them from developing distinctive products and brand identities. |
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There is no telling the degree to which this habit of science and reason mitigates and regulates power. |
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The danger arises once you go past your one little glass of beer a day and gradually acquire the habit of excessive drinking. |
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We'd all be fit, healthy and energetic if we could just break the habit of downing a pint of Rocky Road in front of the TV instead of taking a walk. |
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It is the habit of a gushy concert-goer to go backstage after the last encore and meet his heroes in person. |
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Besides its early and extended flowering period 'Prairie Splendor's compact habit makes it a very distinctive pot plant. |
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My question is: have you ever considered giving some leadership and quitting the bad habit and encouraging your senators to follow suit? |
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Why do some find it so difficult to be free from some sin, bad habit or wrong way of thinking? |
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It is necessary to abandon the bad habit of talking about ourselves at every moment. |
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Help your sisters and friends to break the bad habit of putting themselves down. |
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That's a bad habit to have, since it's one of the best ways of locking yourself out of your car. |
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Unfortunately, past governments have had the bad habit of making promises without any plans for delivering on those promises. |
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Well, as a performance synth it's problematic: Those sliders have a habit of breaking and it's very difficult to find replacements. |
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Women in Kyrgyzstan have a habit of taking initiative, which comes from their culture. |
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Many parents have a habit of bringing their sons with them to the workshops. |
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It talked about the fact that federal and Ontario politicians have a habit of announcing the same units over and over again. |
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The Liberals have a habit of trampling on the provinces, and this is just one more example. |
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At Vinçotte, we have a habit of tapping into each other's strengths to come up with innovative solutions. |
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They have a habit of moving around without the problems associated with the documentation that the rest of the world takes for granted. |
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Crickets in particular have a habit of gnawing their way through sharp corners. |
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Our Anglo-Saxon competitors in particular have a habit of making thinly veiled attacks on our system of bank-client confidentiality. |
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Many of these wasp species have a habit of scavenging in city garbage cans. |
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I have always been a storyteller and have a habit of constantly weaving the world around me into the fabric of story. |
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I twisted a lock of hair around my finger, a nervous habit of mine. |
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By now, most of us have gotten into the habit of slathering on sunblock if we plan to be outside all day. |
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Germany seemed to have reverted to its post-war habit of shirking global responsibilities. |
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Even his jokes had a habit of sounding like pomposity or bad temper to those who did not know him. |
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The extravagance that became a habit during the period of rapid growth must give way to reasonable consumption and frugality. |
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My colleague has a habit of sending me off-color jokes via e-mail that I find highly offensive. |
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Racing to a red light or stop sign and then braking at the last minute is a futile and costly habit that wastes fuel and wears out the brakes. |
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Ever since I was a kid I've had this habit of picturing images when I listen to music. |
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He kicked his 28-year, pack-a-day habit cold turkey, and lost weight in the process. |
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Oil palm, pejibaye, arecanut and date palm are examples of important crops with the same growth habit as coconut. |
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A life habit is a current activity or a social role promoted by the person or his sociocultural context. |
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Smokers, for example, who may have gone weeks without a cigarette could fall back into a habit after just one slip-up. |
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I've got into the habit of immersing myself into writing an album over a long period. |
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In some cases, it could be said that people have lost the habit to work, but the real issue is that there is no real economy. |
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Now, we are in the habit of looking at others arrogantly and we do not realise how small we are. |
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Other books deal with institutions like the post office and the treasury, electricity, housing, the saving habit and the bullock cart. |
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In most cases, they occur because of changes either in eruptive habit or in location of the principal vent area. |
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So why does Clarke sound so unhappy about rivals' habit of dishing price vouchers at the checkout? |
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Some managers have the annoying habit of copying everyone possible on missives that are only really relevant to one or two people. |
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Clearly, nipping the tobacco habit in the bud among youth can have profound effects upon long-term public health. |
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Q What advice would you give to young, charitably minded people who may not yet be in the habit of giving? |
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Like insurance companies and tampons, unions have got into a daft habit of acquiring meaningless names. |
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I particularly hope that you have made it a habit to take time each day to reflect on your interactions with people. |
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In fact, the doctors have made a habit of referring some of their patients to me. |
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It is indeed so that people who drink alcohol moderately, should not be dissuaded from this habit for health reasons. |
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Eyeing her religious habit and crucifix, he asked if she had gone to church that morning. |
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Building the saving habit and building the planning habit at a young age are absolutely vital. |
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When he was sixteen he received the Dominican habit in San Marco's convent in Florence. |
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Mr. Speaker, I was formerly a bicycle racer and I am not in the habit of easily losing control. |
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He had told me that he had the distressing habit of balancing on his chair and spreading his be-trainered feet out on the desk. |
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Sometimes it becomes a completely unconscious habit and you are not even aware you are scratching. |
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If physical activity is so important to the health of adults, shouldn't we make sure that kids pick up the habit at a young age? |
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Paul was in a brown habit just like the one worn by the figure of St. Francis in the huge mosaic on the front of the church. |
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There is no good reason beyond that inexplicable American habit of following beaten paths. |
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This insularity is a long-held and well-known habit of this administration when setbacks happen, and it's not admirable. |
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This is a habit I developed surrounded by thick-skulled idiots. |
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I am determined to do everything I can to stop young people taking up smoking, and to help young smokers kick the habit before it ruins their health. |
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Get out of the habit of filling the tank to the brim. |
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Ford's drug abusing habit has since resulted in a number of memes that have become a rage on the Internet. |
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Changes in the functions of the intestinal brush border membrane during the development of the ruminant habit in lambs. |
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Only historical reasons and the dead hand of habit explain the compartmentalizing of wildlife on the one hand and its counterparts in the aquatic milieu on the other. |
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The Lebanese have absorbed the blows of the Syrian proxy war by desensitizing themselves, an old habit born from years of muddling forward through violence, decaying infrastructure, and communal strife. |
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High prices have a habit of calling forth increased supply. |
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The letter was from a fellow rancher who, instead of engaging in work in the oil field as I did to support my habit of ranching, became a lawyer so he could be a rancher. |
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Giant kelp can be harvested fairly easily because of its surface canopy and growth habit of staying in deeper water. |
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In its flattering way, the press tried to invest this habit of Bush's with the sense that it was indicative of a particularly sharp wit. |
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And I developed the habit of sharing every little thing with her. |
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Had we been near enough we might have seen the skua stoop try catch the dropped fish before it reached the water, for that is the constant habit of this fierce aerial highway robber. |
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Another favoured habit is to add 'ise' to adjectives or nouns, as in dehistoricise, monumentalise, racialise and normativise. |
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When your inspection of your home and your way of life reveals that a dangerous situation or a dangerous habit exists, it will not vanish through your turning away from it. |
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Gardeners, chefs and foodies may be versed in the virtues of the characterful gooseberry, but is it time the rest of us re-embraced the hairy habit too? |
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At the time of the denationalization of factories and plants in the nineties the intellectual property was not taken into account as there was no habit in Russia of having to pay for brains. |
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He may or may not have resumed the habit – he was certainly puffing on some sort of cigarette toward the end of this show – but the spell of clear-headedness has had an effect. |
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On this occasion, the demands of parenting led Carben to deputize a seatmate, who feels certain that he missed a few, because of a habit of making small talk whenever the action on the field ceases. |
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We agree with Mr Schmitt with regard to Amendment No 17, but this is what happens when you allow the Green Group to hijack transport reports as they have a habit of trying to do. |
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If I did something that I was not supposed to do, or did something that I wanted to do that my husband didn't like and he told me that, I would not know how to reply, because I wasn't in the habit of talking back. |
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A moral virtue is a habit that makes its possessor good. |
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However, these things do have a habit of having consequences that were probably not intended, to be fair to the legislators, and certainly that sometimes cannot be foreseen. |
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The origin of the name of the tower dates back several centuries to when its first bell-ringer, Giovanni Ducci, was known for his admirable habit of spending all of his earnings on food and drink. |
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