As someone accustomed to getting along with almost everyone, I found myself shocked when a young woman who I was managing told my boss that I was mean and difficult to work with.
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Still, as people get accustomed to innovation, the lead time between a new development and its acceptance shrinks.
What's more, sections of society have increasingly come to imitate these values, as individuals become accustomed to spending more on going out and enjoying themselves.
As a matter of fact, Saniewska says that at first, when she saw her as Lady Gaga, she didn't recognize her, having been accustomed to her as a long-haired brunette waitress.
Others sense some slackening in the government's keenness to consult, as ministers grow more accustomed to office.
Zhang says it will take time for attitudes to change, as more Chinese grow accustomed to global cultures.
The SOTU was, as we have become accustomed to, more of the same.
As the public becomes accustomed to tales of 40- and 50-year-old women who date younger men, 20- and 30-something women who do the same are still regarded as a strange species.
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Unfortunately, the mantra of skeptical research can continue past its usefulness, as those of us accustomed to being rewarded for our ability to critically assess rapaciously search out bias and inaccuracy all around us.
As consumers are growing accustomed to having mobile Internet through their smart phones, more car buyers are seeking connectivity in their vehicles that will allow them to move seamlessly between their digital lives at work and home, panelists said.
Elizabeth, the young woman Booker is sent to rescue (or abduct) for reasons and employers initially unknown, appears after the first sequence of combat, and her introduction is followed by a lengthy period of peaceful exploration, as the player gets accustomed to her presence.
As an artist she was accustomed to starting small and growing a creative work.
As comedians, we are accustomed to tailoring our acts to fit certain "special" shows.
But that was no surprise as the 20 drivers grew accustomed to the track, culminating in the Finn ending up quicker than his McLaren team-mate by just 0.197 seconds, with Brawn GP's Button 0.234 seconds down on Kovalainen.
But it has impressed New Yorkers accustomed to politics-as-usual and to do-nothing mayors enmeshed in party machines.
We're accustomed to understanding Rothko as part of the evolving style that came to be called Abstract Expressionism.
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And as we become more and more accustomed gestures, mice, and the single-point, two-dimensional actions they demand, make less and less sense.
Animal behaviour experts says it's possible we are seeing more of them, as urban foxes are becoming more accustomed to humans and getting braver.
As a liberal, I had grown accustomed to being the ideological outcast in the rooms full of suburban conservatives.
Newspapers and television newscasts, long accustomed to seeing the Dow as the speedometer of the market, filled the column inches and television screens.
It's short for health insurance "cooperative, " and it's a phrase Americans are getting accustomed to hearing these days as lawmakers point to the co-op model as one possibility in the debate over health care reform.
It gives Disneyland a worthy companion park (finally) and also serves as an incentive for fans who are accustomed to the much larger Walt Disney World Theme Park to make the trek out West to check out the original.
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In addition, even some countries with surpluses, such as Russia, have banks that have grown accustomed to easy foreign lending because of the integration of global finance.
Despite the evidence stacking up in front of her eyes, Stacey, like most of the non-profit affordable housing community, was accustomed to thinking of manufactured housing as the anti-solution for the low- and middle-income Americans she had spent most of her career working with.
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Convenient parking, liquor license availability, a large potential customer base accustomed to visiting the destination, as well as the opportunity to build out spaces to specifications and size requirements have created an environment where operators are looking as much at Malls as Malls are looking for operators.
The Clinton we have grown accustomed to over the last year is perceived as a spear-carrier for the Madeleine Albright school of values-driven liberal interventionism.
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From the get-go, the brand knew they had a challenge: to retrain consumers to view acne treatment and skincare as a regimen rather than the spot treatment they were accustomed to.
Rogers assessed his outing as "pretty good, " and noted he was getting accustomed to being back in a practice setting.
I'm accustomed to being an oddball in the group, as it were.
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