Despite North Korea's smiles in Seoul, the habitual snarl with which it greets the outside world has not been banished.

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This dispute does seem more serious than the Treasury's habitual battles with the private sector over rewards that are acceptable for large infrastructure projects where consumers (you and me) end up paying.

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When there is something pleasant that one doesn't want to indulge in, like junk food or alcohol, the key to avoiding temptation is to interrupt the habitual response with a quick, easy alternative action, says Dr. Gollwitzer.

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For three years in the 1980s she also wrote with her habitual verve about the United States.

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The whistled language of La Gomera Island in the Canaries, the Silbo Gomero, replicates the islanders' habitual language (Castilian Spanish) with whistling.

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The UK is also embroiled in a long-running legal dispute with the EU over the UK's habitual residence test, which limits benefit claims by new arrivals.

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Our mental and emotional muscles are now so well developed, and dealing with complexity so familiar, that decision making becomes habitual, automatic, and often, as in my own case and that of the golfer, unconscious.

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Penalties were planned for habitual offenders of the rules although the European Commission was so packed with French and German representatives that these two large nations were never fined despite regular breaches of the pact.

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If someone from one EU member states dies in an EU state that is not their home country, inheritance issues would be dealt with under the law of the member state where they last had their "place of habitual residence".

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