good behavior
Example Sentences
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Nearly 30 inmates, selected for good behavior, donned tuxedos with pink boutonnieres and waited as daughters, some dressed in formal gowns, were led into the prison’s Bible college transformed into a makeshift dance hall.
From Salon
But in the past two decades, it has rehabilitated itself to include incentives for good behavior like an annual rodeo, an inmate-run radio station and magazine, a 9-hole golf course and recreation area on site and life skills training for careers like cook, firefighter and mechanic and in graphic communications.
From Salon
The proper response isn’t to nudge them toward good behavior.
Hitler’s major statement against the Jews in September 1919, about two years after the Bolshevik Revolution, makes no reference to communism but inveighs instead against the international capitalists who had laid Germany low in World War I. Later, his view that he could use Europe’s Jews as “hostages” to ensure the good behavior of Roosevelt’s America led to the full-scale implementation of the Holocaust.
With credit for time served, good behavior and other things, she is projected to be released in 2037.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
