• UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations, which begin in 2014 and limit a club's losses over a given period, are turning soccer into a buyer's market in which habitual big spenders are unwilling to throw money around.

    WSJ: Willian: To Russia's Anzhi With Doubt

  • Many in the force believe new measures had to be put in place to check habitual traffic violators.

    BBC: India cardboard traffic police to deter violators

  • In 2000 Iowa's Department of Natural Resources labeled DeCoster a "habitual violator" of environmental laws and banned him from expanding operations in the state for four years because of violations at hog farms he owned.

    FORBES: Regulation

  • Growth hormones decline in rats deprived of their mothers' habitual licking.

    ECONOMIST: The sense of touch

  • Although the neural pathways that encode habitual behavior appear to be located in deep brain structures known as the basal ganglia, it has been shown that the IL cortex is also necessary for such behaviors to develop.

    FORBES: Could We One Day Switch Off Bad Habits in Our Brains?

  • He's a creature of habitual poses -- lips pursed in a smile that mocks mirth, eyes narrowed by a need to dominate, and, beneath it all, motives as opaque as the squid ink he requires for his drawings.

    WSJ: 'Door in the Floor' Hinges on Performances

  • 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.

    FORBES: Three Steps to Making Better Decisions

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

    UNESCO: Culture

  • In 2000, Iowa's attorney general declared DeCoster a "habitual violator" of state environmental laws after a series of discharges of manure from his hog-farming operations.

    CNN: No further egg recalls expected, feds say

  • The Democrats of Washington took advantage of the country's now-habitual distractedness: The country, now seeing what's coming in terms of taxes and fees, will not be amused.

    WSJ: Is Obama a Lame Duck Already?

  • 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.

    BBC: UK will not extend Romania and Bulgaria migration curbs

  • 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.

    WSJ: Resolutions: So Irresistible, So Hard to Keep

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