And his medical training disposed him to think more about individual people than about abstractions.
His views do not dispose him toward abolitionists, Mexicans, blacks, Yankees, business rivals, plantation gentlemen or, most notably, his own son, Peter, whom he cannot abide.
It is one which, it is legitimate to infer, disposes him, where he deems it necessary, to manipulate the historical record in order to make it conform with his political beliefs".
The influence of Buckminster Fuller in the United States and of visits to China and Japan in 1930, where he studied brush painting, ceramics and the art of Zen rock gardens, further disposed him toward abstraction and natural forms.
And yet, as a writer scorned I secretly suspect that a piece I wrote in the Guardian about the third Arden series of Shakespeare's plays (of which Bate is a luminary) may have disposed him unkindly towards me, as it did other members of the Arden editorial team.
Far from closing the person in on himself, these characteristics of the person's spiritual nature dispose him to communication with other persons.
Assuming the child has learnt both terms as observation sentences, the sight of the dog will dispose him to assent to each.
But a strong case has been made that Schmitt's anti-liberal jurisprudence, as well as his fervent anti-semitism, disposed him to support the Nazi regime (Dyzenhaus 1997, 85 101; Scheuerman 1999).
He can, in addition, be in a belief state of the first sort while also being in a belief state that disposes him to utter the negation of the second.
Youssouf Mulumbu took one touch too many as he attempted to run the ball clear, Santos disposed him before fizzing a low shot into the net, although Fulop will once again have felt he might have done more as the ball slipped through his grasp.
