The attempt to do so leads to abstraction in which societies, or systems, seem to behave without any reference to actual people.

Each of these regions behaved like a separate country without relations to the others.

He wanted to see if she behaved herself without him right there to enforce her manners.

I hardly ever have time and these behave pretty well without it.

Even more people behave this way and worse, without any mind altering substances.

If he was her equal, why did he behave so without formality?

As to how Kuwait would behave without a second resolution, there is no reason to jump the gun at this point in time.

It is about behaving without responsibility, and about playing out one's agenda at the expense of anyone whose life you touch.

This is the one topic where they are behaving without reason or even an attempt to be unbiased.

The official history remarked: "he behaved in action as a man without fear".