"They're an uncertain commodity to play against, but we've always played them in a certain manner and had reasonable success at it."

Motivation is an inner drive to behave or act in a certain manner.

She had a certain manner, Caroline thought, that suggested they were peers.

People would come far to both listen to his public lectures and consult him on certain manners.

At home, I am used to eating in a certain manner.

What she really saw was but doubt as to the fittest and most certain manner of refusal.

She can hold her feelings well inside her and knows when is the right time to be in a certain manner.

She was beautiful in a certain full blown manner.

Even the guests are a part of the ceremony because they must hold the cup in a certain manner and drink from it just so.

This, again, is only possible, to man at least, on condition that the object affect the mind in a certain manner.