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  • adverb With respect to behaviour

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Examples

  • As the paper reports, "B-19 stimulated himself to a point that, both behaviourally and introspectively, he was experiencing an almost overwhelming euphoria and elation and had to be disconnected despite his vigorous protests."

    Pleasure by David Linden - review 2011

  • Phorm, the behaviourally targeted online advertising firm, has posted a loss before tax of $15. 6m (£9. 8m) in the six months to the end of June – and continues to burn through its dwindling cash reserves at $1. 8m a month.

    Phorm posts $15.6m loss before tax Mark Sweney 2010

  • But I was all over the place if they messed me about behaviourally, you know, chatting out of line, heckling, turning up late.

    An Education « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Only the imposition of his personal canon will show whether he is correct in believing that England's behaviourally challenged teens can be made to share his enthusiasm for an Augustan even other Augustans couldn't stand.

    Only a sadist would inflict Dryden on our schoolchildren Catherine Bennett 2010

  • Colin Hansen and his band of carbon-taxing Liberals think B.C. residents will forgive and forget their little scheme to behaviourally modify us from buying gasoline at the pumps, and the pathetic $100 bribe to each and every resident of this province.

    2008 October 23 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • Sometimes I think The Lord of the Rings might be an unconscious aristocratic revenge fantasy in reaction to the success of the French Revolution, an English royalist gut-reaction of fear that something like it might ever happen in England, in which anyone who threatens the sanctity of royalty is transformed into something monstrous, both physically and behaviourally.

    MIND MELD: What are the Most Controversial SF/F Novels of the Past & Present? 2008

  • We don't want the "illiterate, the mentally deficient, the sick, the aged, the politically suspect and behaviourally disruptive" working here, said the New Statesman.

    The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shephard 2010

  • Colin Hansen and his band of carbon-taxing Liberals think B.C. residents will forgive and forget their little scheme to behaviourally modify us from buying gasoline at the pumps, and the pathetic $100 bribe to each and every resident of this province.

    Dear Colin Hansen : We Haven’t Forgotten « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • FWIW, I worked with behaviourally disturbed 6 to 12 year olds back in the 90s, so there are genuinely kids that are ADHD and need medication.

    Little Boys Being "Feminized"? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • The problems with our school system are rooted in a fallacious belief that children are gender neutral before puberty, and thus the school system believes it is able to foster an institution which treats all children as though they are behaviourally equal.

    2008 March 06 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

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