fixed ways

As he became more familiar with the piece in later years, he developed certain fixed ways of singing it.

There's a clash of modernity with fixed ways of doing things.

"I think they found it more difficult to shake loose from their fixed ways than they'd imagined.

This can be difficult with some of the larger Societies, who have very fixed ways of proceeding.

While promising freedom of thought (a prerequisite for invention), they have promoted conformity to fixed ways of thinking.

And some people want those fixed ways, unfortunately, to be superimposed on other people against their will, without their choice, no matter what; this is the way you do it.

“Samsung cannot easily build up software in a short time and it is hard to expect major changes from Korean engineers with fixed ways of thinking,” said Mr Kim.

Her own "little miracle of light and color" represents a threat to the community's fixed ways, not to mention a bold rejection of its pieties that pose as organized religion.

Rather they are saying that the real world we know behaves in fixed ways and that in similar circumstances will behave similarly; allowing for statistical as well as mechanistic descriptions of course.

She acts in stereotyped ways, and either induces other people to act in particular and fixed ways towards her, or she redefines their actions to fit with fixed stereotypes.

The Burdens of History Their daunting handicap, though, is that the instructors who are supposed to be fostering the new thinking are usually themselves products of the rigid, fixed ways of the past.

Without such Earth- rind of Habit,' continues our author, 'call it System of Habits, in a word, fixed ways of acting and of believing,--Society would not exist at all.

Analogue devices - use a continually variable signal to monitor some behaviour, e.g. the light from a star: Filters are used to restrict the range of frequencies transmitted, or modify certain frequencies in fixed ways.

"Habits and fixed ways of doing things, such as treating animals in laboratories as mere tools or objects, die very slowly," says a position paper on animal testing from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Much longer, she suggests, than in our day-to-day encounters with the visual world, where we tend to interpret given signs in fixed ways, and where our first impressions are usually consolidated by our second [impressions].

When people have persistent complaints that are accompanied by unproductive fixed ways of being and acting, this can be "transformed" by a creative act of generating entirely new ways of being and acting, rather than by trying to change themselves in comparison to the past.

People who take that view think that matter and space just happen to exist, and always have existed, nobody knows why; and that the matter, behaving in certain fixed ways, has just happened, by a sort of fluke, to produce creatures like ourselves who are able to think.