They practice their harmonies in a high school bathroom because they like the acoustics.
Research has shown that lots of people experiment with unknown wines because they like the pretty label.
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These businesses bank overwhelmingly with local branches, largely because they like to have somewhere nearby to deposit cash.
Many people who work at nonprofit systems do so because they like the mission of caring for their community.
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Countries recognise each other not because they like or approve of their counterparts' politics, but because they must deal with them.
Even customers like to see bids where the practices are traditional and time-worn, often eschewing innovations simply because they like the status quo.
They shop in charity shops partly because they think the money goes to a good cause and partly because they like to find a bargain.
Many women, like me, work because they like what they do.
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And they will disburse some of it in the present, because they like to spread their spending roughly evenly over the course of their lives.
"People come together because they like helping each other, " says Omondi.
The same report indicated that boomers enjoy independence because they like being challenged and motivated (61%), making an impact (56%) and being their own boss (60%).
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Europeans are different, and not just because they like soccer.
"These 18-year-old kids who join the Army wear Nike because they like the brand, " says Robert Kinney , director of individual protection at the U.S. Army's Natick Soldier Center.
While some taxpayers may not want to adjust their withholding because they like the enforced savings that comes with a windfall tax return, others may want to, says Mr. Sabates.
Those rich countries that spend a lot on higher education may do so for the same reasons they subsidise opera: because they like it, rather than because it makes them richer.
Experience tells us that the sort of people who take those jobs at football clubs have got where they are because they like to make an impact and show who is in control.
Most people pick lawyers because they like them.
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There are the group of girls who stare at the tattooed guy with the big truck, either because they are wondering the same thing I am or because they like his tattoos and big truck.
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Mildly, disaffected Democrats, who knew their candidate for governor in 2006 had no chance, and so they voted for Kinky Friedman simply because they like the cut of his jib or were just having fun.
We put up with it for the same reason that some five million people tune in to watch the Jersey Shore each week, despite its horrible stereotypes and the truly disgusting behavior of its cast members: because they like it.
And the argument is that they operate somewhat like banks because they sell products like annuities.
"I don't like plastic kits, because they look like toys, and most of the applications built by plastic kits are just for fun, without practical use, " he says.
Kids pay attention to men like John Thompson III, not just because of their coaching savvy and because they're huge and intimidating and can cut them from the team, but because they dress like authority figures.
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One attacked the box and the Svalbard islands' deputy governor said the crew broke regulations because they looked "like they are disturbing the animals".
Scientists carefully chose both landing sites because they looked like places water had once flowed.
He says they want to do that because they would like to offer it on Android.
"We see them as super-cool because they look like they're having so much fun, " Meissnitzer said.
Ferrets are a good model because they sneeze like humans and show similar symptoms when infected by flu.
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He added that his film would be a hit with overseas audiences, because "they like that sort of British looniness".
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