Sentence examples for disposed to apply from inspiring English sources

Were the act of 1887 more ambiguous than it is as to its application to past transactions, we should still be disposed to apply the cardinal rule of construction, that where the language of an act will bear two interpretations, equally obvious, that one which is clearly in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution is to be preferred.

Indeed, he is skeptical that Westlund's account can maintain its neutrality and contends that "[t]o hold oneself answerable, in any concrete situation, is to…to be disposed to apply in that situation some normative expectation to oneself" (Benson 2011).

Importantly, according to this account, the person who has mastered the predicate 'red' is someone who is disposed to apply it to an object when the region of one's visual field is red*, and circumstances are apparently normal.

According to the dispositional theory, a word means what it does — for example, the word 'red' means red — because speakers of the word are disposed to apply to word to red things.

Now, in that situation, it would seem that S is disposed to apply 'red' to things which are (not merely red but) either-red-or-white-but-seen-through-rose-tinted-spectacles.

The mere fact that in certain circumstances someone would apply 'red' to white things does not mean that they are disposed to apply red to white things — after all, the mere fact that in certain circumstances something would burn does not mean that it is flammable in the ordinary sense.

However, attention should be paid to the order of the different analyses so that the techniques less disposed to modify the sample are applied first.

Others are disposed to listen.

Trop., biting, disposed to bite.

He was not disposed to taking sides.

He was disposed to laugh at first.