Maintaining the judicial habits of a lifetime, he gave an opportunity to comment to those whom he was about to criticise. (newlawjournal.co.uk)
As Ron Heifetz of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government observes, «You appear dangerous to people when you question their values, beliefs and habits of a lifetime. (religion-online.org)
The habits of a lifetime ordained that I must see what I write, line by line. (religion-online.org)