Sentence examples for a proclivity to from inspiring English sources

Barack Obama and the Chinese have both shown a proclivity to blaming strangers but that seems to be merely rhetorical.

"Information quality is a hard problem, so we have a proclivity to fall back on secrecy as an indicator of quality.

"It's possible that people who drank fermented beverages tended to live longer and reproduce more" than did their teetotaling peers, Dr. McGovern said, "which may partly explain why people have a proclivity to drink alcohol".

In Slow Food's DNA is a proclivity to convene – and I certainly hope that we will be convening people who touch the food system at various points of the delivery from field to fork, as well as those who don't get to touch it enough.

In interviews, several people involved in the campaign said that Mr. Gillespie was bringing a new sense of order and organization to the campaign, which was serving as an antidote to the more free-flowing style of Mr. Stevens, a longtime political advertising strategist with a creative bent, a proclivity to philosophize and no aversion to late-night phone calls or strategy sessions.

A woman who crossed paths with Mr. Farren in the workplace, one of many acquaintances who spoke on the condition that they remain anonymous to avoid becoming entangled in the litigation, said Mr. Farren had a proclivity to lose his temper, but no more than anyone in a pressure-filled job.

A continent with a strong economy, true, but also with a traditional proclivity to help those weaker than ourselves?

Others have mentioned the lack of proper safety protocols on the ferry, or a general proclivity to cut corners in pursuit of profit in a hyper-competitive society.

Even Mr Birkinshaw concedes that holacracy is a "good fit for Zappos, which has already shown a pronounced proclivity to go its own way".

But there is a human proclivity to set rules, too.

There is a human proclivity to try and bend the rules.