Splitting leadoff duties could be a compromise, a way to capitalize on Jeter's success against left-handers — for all his struggles, he still hit.321 against them last season with a.391 on-base percentage — and Gardner's speed, on-base proclivities and knack for seeing a lot of pitches.
Moreover, as learning is frequently functional, adaptive, based on genetic proclivities, and responsive to ecological resources, the current 'ethnographic' method, which proclaims culture where the alternatives can be dismissed, is vulnerable to excluding genuine cases of social learning.
Klosterman lists the apparent sexual proclivities -- based on their lyrics and videos, anyway -- of different metal bands.
Is it based on the different proclivities of men and women to negotiate?
Mr. Desmond is known as the singing chef, based on his proclivity for bursting into song, much to the delight of patrons in the dining room.
As the Wonkette blog pointed out, this mess of a shoutout was actually coaxed out of Steele, based on his proclivity for questionable slang.
The complex mutational signatures of lung cancer cells in smokers reflect the cocktail of carcinogens in tobacco smoke and their proclivities for particular bases [17].
In the few weeks since the exhibition opened, students and other curious visitors have gravitated toward paintings based on their own predilections and proclivities, said Ms. Croll, of Princeton.
Although it's interesting to know what those who've come before you on the physician-scientist path have chosen, your decision should be based on your own aptitudes and proclivities.
When dueling close friends, you can make choices based on your knowledge of their proclivities that might not be as effective with total strangers.
When Tan and Grigorenko analyzed the results, they found that creative-writing ability was both strongly familial (shared within families but not necessarily genetically based; for instance, spouses often share creative proclivities) and heritable (resulting from genetic variation, i.e., shared by parents with their children).
