good behavior
Example Sentences
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One of the things I think is really important is to make sure that you’re demonstrating, and you’re role modeling, good behavior with your devices and platforms.
From Los Angeles Times
It is what happens when you stop rewarding dysfunction and start recognizing good behavior.
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
Only on rare occasions did their good behavior falter: for example, when peas were unexpectedly served at luncheon.
From Literature
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