The sky is there every day — it's right over our heads — and how many times do you sit and have a conversation about the sky?" (Given the English propensity to discuss the weather, probably more than you'd think).
For instance, Cobh was the last port of call for the Titanic (where Leo DiCaprio boarded, in the film of the same name -- although, due to the English propensity for renaming everything in sight to suit their fancy, it was called "Queenstown" at the time).
Raffish, good-natured, and quintessentially English in his propensity to say sorry, Perry is now at agonies to insist his comments were ill-informed.
The nuthatches are a genus, Sitta, of small passerine birds which derive their English name from the propensity of some species to wedge large insects or seeds into cracks, and then hack at them with their strong bills.
On the other hand, a lack of English proficiency can increase the propensity for self-employment by satisfying the demand from other immigrants from the same ethnic group (e.g. Evans [1989]).
The relative decline of majors like English is modest when accounting for the increased propensity of Americans to go to college.
He is a top forward in Japan's professional league and is nicknamed the People's Rooney for a stocky build and goal-scoring propensity that remind some of the English star Wayne Rooney.
It is all there and it all says "bulldog". It's his propensity for tea that makes him English.
An outstanding English mathematician, G.H. Hardy, observed that professional puzzle makers, aware of this propensity, exploit it diligently, knowing full well that the general public gets an intellectual kick out of such activities.
The second part of the study was based on a poll of Americans who were given information not just about the proportion of the country that are immigrants, but their characteristics – their propensity to commit crimes or be imprisoned compared to natives, their English-speaking rate, their unemployment rates and how many of them were illegal versus legal.
They are lazier than the English and Northerners and cling to an easily offended sense of honor, naturally linked to "a propensity to violence". These not obviously flattering characterizations have been taken as praise by not a few Southerners, who see more romance in a heritage involving Scottish kings than in one born on Tobacco Road.
