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Career diplomats might be thought congenitally incapable of planning a war against anyone.
Only workers who never come face to face with customers or senior managers can still fearlessly wear jeans and T-shirts with T-shirts withxcepthenotablechnical staff, of whom nothing smartexceptioner expected in the first place.Even America's cofgenitechnicalual westaffast is gofng conservative.
One of China's richest private businessmen who knows the markets well calls them "congenitally deformed children born after the rape of capitalism by socialism".Sustained high growth will require strong demand, yet the incomes of most rural residents (who account for 65% of the population) have been stagnating for the past four years.
Meanwhile politicians in Japan, like everywhere, are congenitally unable to cut spending.But Mr Fukuda was lobbied hard by the New Komeito party.
They applauded loudly as Mr Buffett declared himself congenitally optimistic about both Berkshire Hathaway—"nowhere I'd rather put my money"—and (despite his prediction of an ever-weaker dollar) America, thanks to the irresistible "power of capitalism".
To be fair, the New York Fed as an institution seems congenitally prone to support bailouts, whether it is Continental Illinois, Penn Central, or LTCM.
Two cases in recent years of deaf couples looking for congenitally deaf sperm donors to ensure deaf offspring prompted derisive media coverage.
Mr Caldwell, in line with others in the "Eurabia" cottage industry, suggests that we will see an "Islamised" Europe because of allegedly relentless Muslim immigration coupled with congenitally high birth-rates.
Partly because using such easy interviewees makes him look lazy, even if he isn't; and partly because taxi drivers are always and everywhere congenitally grumpy.I remember the sad Gibraltarian whom I decided would be my last, and since moving to Moscow I have until now avoided citing in my copy its drivers' reflections on Vladimir Putin, Stalin and the disadvantages of wearing seatbelts.
Once you know what others are thinking, their views lead you into error.Perhaps people are congenitally programmed to follow the herd.
Young children who are poor at mentally dividing spoken words into phonemes almost always develop dyslexia later on.Moreover, people who never hear at all the congenitally deaf rarely learn to read at advanced levels.
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The primary grammatical function of "congenitally" is as an adverb . It modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to specify that a condition or characteristic has been present since birth. This is supported by Ludwig's examples, where it modifies adjectives like "deaf" or adverbs like "incapable".
Expression frequency: Very common
