Word Finder - conduct

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The act or method of controlling or directing

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Skillful guidance or management; leadership

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Behaviour; the manner of behaving

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Good conduct will be rewarded and likewise poor conduct will be punished.

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(of a literary work) plot; storyline

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Convoy; escort; person who accompanies another

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Something which carries or conveys anything; a channel; an instrument.

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To lead, or guide; to escort.

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To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks)

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The commander conducted thousands of troops.

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(reflexively to conduct oneself) To behave.

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He conducted himself well.

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To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit (heat, light, electricity, etc.)

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To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.

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To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.

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To carry out (something organized)

He will conduct you to the Minister of War.

Suddenly all those annoying rules of conduct began to make sense.

Howie left for his apartment shortly after we'd agreed to conduct his proposed test.

There are tests I could conduct that would give us direction and maybe some answers but he refuses to even discuss them.

His conduct of affairs was by earnest efforts to promote education and to develop the resources of the country.

This is what comes of knowing how to conduct oneself.

She sat down because the code of conduct about standing while guarding took second place to comfort.

It was a swindle, and not at all like the conduct of a great man!

The latter enterprise Alexander designed to conduct in person; under his supervision was prepared in Babylon an immense fleet, a great basin dug out to contain 1000 ships, and the watercommunications of Babylonia taken in hand.

The imprudent conduct of the Madras authorities had irritated beyond endurance the two greatest Mussulman powers in the peninsula, the nizam of the Deccan and Hyder Ali, the usurper of Mysore, who began to negotiate an alliance with the Mahrattas.

So let's take a moment and conduct a three-step evaluation.

Each of the four knew their job and we proceeded to conduct four tests before the day was over.

He appeared on the 6th of March before the standing committee of the two Houses to explain his conduct, when he stated that he had come over because he saw danger to the Protestant religion in the king's service, and expressed his willingness to take the Covenant.

Whatever crimes might be charged against Charles, his past conduct might appear to be condoned by the act of negotiating with him.

But though he thus sacrificed his own prospects to the cardinal's good pleasure, Dlugosz was far too sagacious to approve of the provocative attitude of Olesnicki, and frequently and fearlessly remonstrated with him on his conduct.

Why would we conduct ourselves any differently in world affairs?

He laid out how doctors should conduct themselves professionally, how to record patient records, and even suggested matters of personal hygiene for physicians, right down to their fingernails.

The prestige personally acquired by Benedetto Cairoli was augmented by that of his four brothers, who fell during the wars of Risorgimento, and by the heroic conduct of their mother.

I know that this idea will be vigorously combated by those who conduct schools for the deaf.

He soon began to prove himself possessed of that systematic spirit of conduct and effort which appeared so much ink his life and character.

He is considered to have been the first (in 1874-1876) to conduct historical seminary work in the United States.

The Austro-Prussian war appears to us undoubtedly the result of the crafty conduct of Bismarck, and so on.

Besides receiving taxes, they pay the creditors of the state in their departments, conduct all operations affecting departmental loans, buy and sell government stock (rentes) on behalf of individuals, and conduct certain banking operations.

The disorders of his conduct, though tolerated by the emperors, Conrad II.

Haydn, thus released from his official duties, forthwith accepted a commission from Salomon, the London concertdirector, to write and conduct six symphonies for the concerts in the Hanover Square Rooms. He arrived in England at the beginning of 1791 and was welcomed with the greatest enthusiasm, receiving among other honours the degree of D Mus.

His public conduct does not present itself in quite so amiable a light.

At Vera Cruz he won the rank of first lieutenant, and for gallant conduct at Contreras and Chapultepec respectively he was brevetted captian and major, a rank which he attained with less than one year's service.

In the conduct and detection of her correspondence with Babington, traitor was played off against traitor, and spies were utilized against assassins, with as little scruple as could be required or expected in the diplomacy of the time.

These discords of an undecided nature displayed themselves in his political theories and in his philosophy of conduct.

The colonel said that the commander of the division was a mile and a quarter away and would receive Balashev and conduct him to his destination.

During the lifetime of his uncle, Beaton had shared in the efforts of the hierarchy to suppress the reformed doctrines, and pursued the same line of conduct still more systematically after his elevation to the primacy.

The front and rear ranks of the 28th were simultaneously engaged, and the conduct of the regiment won for it the distinction of wearing badges both at the front and at the back of their head-dress.

This board may allow commutation or diminution of sentence for good behaviour, meritorious services or exemplary conduct.

Many families of good character now settled at the Bahamas, and some progress was made in developing the resources of the colony, although this was interrupted by the tyrannical conduct of some of the governors who succeeded Captain Woodes Rogers.

The cultivators, on the other hand, may not plant tobacco without permits from the regie, although the power of refusing a permit, except to known smugglers or persons of notoriously bad conduct, seems to be doubtful; nor may they sell to any purchaser, unless for export, except to the regie, while they are bound to deposit the whole of the tobacco crops which they raise in any one year in the entrepots of the regie before the month of August of the year following, [[Table A]].-Showing Revenues ceded to Ottoman Public Debt Administration at Various Periods to 1907-1908.

Freed from the danger of his brother's attacks, the sultan gave himself up to devotion, leaving to his ministers the conduct of affairs in peace and war.

The new grand vizier, Cicala, by his severity to the soldiers, mainly Asiatics, who had shown cowardice in the battle, drove thousands to desert; and the sultan, who had himself little stomach for the perils of campaigning, returned to Constantinople, leaving the conduct of the war to his generals.

Organization and tactics did not affect the issue directly, for the conduct of the men and their junior officers gave abundant proof that in the hands of a competent leader the " linear " principle of delivering one shattering blow would have proved superior to that of a gradual attrition of the enemy here, as on the battlefields of the Peninsula and at Waterloo, and this in spite of other defects in the training of the Prussian infantry which simultaneously caused its defeat on the neighbouring field of Auerstadt.

But the French army was already completely out of hand, and the degree to which the panic of a crowd can master even the strongest instinct of the individual is shown by the conduct of the fugitives who crowded over the bridges, treading hundreds under foot, whilst all the time the river was easily fordable and mounted men rode backwards and forwards across it.

There is no direct evidence of it, but the conduct of her close ally Constant may be quoted in its support, and it is certain that she had no affection for the Bourbons.

The date of his death is given by Nepos as 468; at any rate he lived to witness the ostracism of Themistocles, towards whom he always displayed a generous conduct, but had died before the rise of Pericles.

When Miaoulis retired to make room for Dundonald the conduct of the struggle had really passed into the hands of the powers.

Very few authors of so high a class have been so consistent, or have made their conduct so close a reflection of their philosophy.

But the king's diplomatic skill enabled him to satisfy the church without surrendering any rights of consequence (1106); and he skilfully threw the blame of his previous conduct upon his counsellor, Robert of Meulan.

This important war, the conduct and result of which greatly enhanced the prestige of British arms, had for its main object the freedom of the Peninsula of Spain and Portugal from the domination of Napoleon; and hence it deri'ves its name, though it terminated upon the soil of France.

As the conduct of this campaign was largely influenced by the operations of the Spanish forces, it is necessary to mention their positions, and also the fact that greater reliance had been placed, both in England and Spain, upon them than future events justified.

When the troops landed in England, half clothed and half shod, their leader's conduct of the campaign was at first blamed, but his reputation as a general rests solidly upon these facts, that when Napoleon in person, having nearly 300,000 men in Spain, had stretched forth his hand to seize Portugal and Andalusia, Moore with 30,000, forced him to withdraw it, and follow him to Corunna, escaping at the same time from his grasp. Certainly a notable achievement.

Its natural form is the aphorism, and to this and to its epigrammatic brilliance, vigour, and uncompromising revolt against all conventions in science and conduct it owes its persuasiveness.

In August 1847 he was breveted lieutenantcolonel for gallant and meritorious conduct at Contreras and Churubusco.

His conduct evoked the fiercest denunciations of Luther, but it also displeased more moderate men and especially Erasmus.