Sentence examples for a peculiar affinity from inspiring English sources

6. Suppression orders and secret hearings Australian courts have a peculiar affinity for suppression orders.

In McCarthy's lexicon, Taft was not merely wrong, he was in the enemy camp and was showing a "peculiar affinity for Nazism".

Mr. Paterson, for instance, has a peculiar affinity for issuing multiple endorsements, even in races in which he has encouraged one candidate to run.

Moreover, the self-excoriating temperament of many artists fosters a peculiar affinity for politicians who would not hesitate to send them — among many others — to the flames or the chains.

Although she was on close terms with the most respectable members of the British establishment - from Winston Churchill and Evelyn Waugh (who said her beauty "ran through the room like a peal of bells") to Sir John Betjeman - she admitted having a peculiar affinity with Hitler.

A minority affected flat bones and short tubular bones of the hand and foot, with a peculiar affinity for the calcaneus and talus [1].

Best of all, there's the peculiar affinity between Cromwell and the ambitious Anne Boleyn Claire Foyy), a knight's daughter who has convinced the King that she's his soul mate, despite the opposition to their relationship from almost every other person on the planet, from the Queen, the Pope, and More to the impressively high proportion of the British population that views her as a demonic floozy.

It was Frank O'Connor who noted the peculiar affinity of the short story for what he called "submerged populations": marginal, isolated figures such as Chekhov's clerks, Maupassant's prostitutes or Sherwood Anderson's provincial schoolteachers, eking out thin existences at the edges of society.

Apart from the grandiosity of his long-range scheme, Brown differed from the mainstream of Northern abolitionism in his peculiar affinity with the South — both with the blacks he wanted to help liberate and with the slaveholders he wanted to destroy.

The peculiar affinity of lymphoma cells to the intravascular space is due to the absence of CD29 (β1 integrin) and CD54 (ICAM-1) surface ligands, which may disable them from diapedesis across the endothelium 2. IVL can affect virtually any organ in the body, but most commonly involves the central nervous system (CNS) and skin, but organs like lungs, bone marrow (BM), and spleen are also targets 1.

Glucose tranporters, or GLUTs, are a family of 13 proteins that facilitate the transport of sugars and have a peculiar distribution in different tissues as well as a particular affinity for substrates.