Sentence examples for being highly prone to from inspiring English sources

The presence of abundant clay minerals changes the interaction properties of the shale with injected fluids, and the composition of the clay affects reactivity, with montmorillonitic clay being highly prone to swelling and high crystalline illite being less prone to swelling.

Another mechanism for reduced Th17 cell frequency in HIV infection may be due to this subset being highly prone to cell death.

Observational studies, though, are highly prone to bias, wrong conclusions, and thus bad information.

They can develop emphysema even if they never smoke, and are highly prone to it if they do smoke.

At the same time, the Ink-less mice are highly prone to cancer, which they start to develop as early as 1 year of age.

Growers and workers are tied together, but their interests are highly prone to collision, as anyone who remembers the California farmworker strikes of the 1970s knows.

"The present system of disability support is a tangled mess of premiums and add-ons which is highly prone to error and baffling for disabled people themselves.

It has therefore been highly prone to schisms such as the "disruption" of 1843 when one-third of its ministers left to form the Free Church of Scotland.

This certainly raises all sorts of problems for companies dealing with governments in developing countries that are highly prone to corruption.

A spoiled vote is where you have filled out your paper ballot and you put it into a counting machine, an optical scanner, and those scanners are highly prone to malfunction if they aren't properly calibrated.

An open wound is highly prone to bacterial colonization.