Today, smoking remains a stubborn habit because it is an integral part of Chinese social life.
It's starting to become a habit because I have nothing else to do.
Cousin Patrick is struggling to keep his Rhode Island seat because of his habit of getting into public fights.
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People buy because they are in the habit of buying those products and not necessarily because they saw an advertisement.
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He is also known - in popular language - as "the Black Pope" because of the colour of his habit.
He recently announced he was not planning to make any more films because he had "lost the habit" for movie acting.
Stable exchange rates will be a hard habit to ditch, because having currencies linked to the dollar played a big part in the region's phenomenal decade-long boom.
And if you can take a couple of weeks off -- because some of you just hang a habit like that -- (laughter) -- we encourage you to join our Vote Corps program to get out the vote specifically in Ohio, which is a key state.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to make a decision on Cordaptive early next week, although the agency has lately been in the habit of blowing through its deadlines because it is so strapped for funds.
She is now at university and says she is the happiest she has ever been, even though she thinks the impulse to self-harm will come back at times when she feels low, because it had become an addiction, a habit.
But psychiatry as a field has been skeptical of the idea of people being addicted to behaviors, because there is not proof that a bad habit is the same kind of biological issue as a dependence on alcohol, nicotine, or heroin.
Ryan Tagal, who is building the database, says it is uphill work, because hedge-fund managers are not in the habit of sharing information.
This is largely because members of long-running teams get into the habit of culling their ideas from a narrow band of sources: one another.
But as you think about whether you can afford to continue, think about this as well: Are you still pursing this because you want to, or are you doing it out of habit?
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Germans began to acquire the board-game habit with the rise of the bourgeoisie in the 19th century, partly because they were deemed to be good training for young minds.
"I called it 'Don Jon's Addiction' because there's this central symbol in the movie of this rut and this habit that Jon is in, " said Gordon-Levitt, who also stars in the film.
And this is obviously reinforced by the reciprocal trend on the left: because most of the inflation doves are on the left, people who are in the habit of disagreeing with left-wingers are discouraged from adopting their arguments on this issue.
Consistent with this, there is a case for restrictions on the way in which cigarettes are advertised and sold: because cigarettes are addictive and dangerous, children are at risk of being hooked by a bad habit before they are old enough to make a reasoned calculation of the odds.
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