Sentence examples for dispositions on from inspiring English sources

Let us begin with a much more general distinction, the distinction between dispositions on the one hand and powers on the other.

Through all of the anguish, I have one of the sunniest dispositions on life and more so than most people including the ones who have not experienced loss.

It was one of Lady Bracknell's dispositions on how right-living young men should comport themselves.

A few — a gaggle of nuns in their habits, at least one collared priest — wore their dispositions on their sleeves.

In sum, each of the proposed mechanisms employs inhibitory strategies, one preempting the devastating effects of negative cognitive-affective dispositions on sleep, and the other disallowing any perpetuating effects of a negatively appraised sleep experience.

Following Bjorn Borg came Stefan Edberg, Pete Sampras and then Federer, all with strikingly similar dispositions on court.

It doesn't follow from one's having a reason to have a disposition that one has a reason to manifest that disposition on every particular occasion.

She wears brightly colored scarves to match a determinedly sunny disposition on the stump.

478, 98 L.Ed. 1068, but intervening mootness aborted disposition on the merits.

Einstein is quoted as referring to this important disposition on several occasions, asserting, "I have no special talent.

But Reyes's sunny disposition on a gloomy Sunday, and the diagnosis, lifted the team's spirits.