Sentence examples for general predisposition from inspiring English sources

But Moran's special trick, here as in her successful 2011 primer on contemporary feminism How to Be a Woman, is combining her relentless bouncy irony with flashes of heart-on-sleeve straightforwardness, and a general predisposition towards hope.

But there are also internal factors, like pre-existing illnesses (physical or mental), a general predisposition to reacting badly to stressors for whatever reason (e.g. harsh life events, genetic factors), even something like having a big ego can make things worse (if your self-image is very important to you, then finding you can't deal with something will potentially stress you even more).

It also details blatantly cynical self-interested tactical decisions by Allied governments and a general predisposition that some war crimes by former Nazis and their collaborators should be overlooked because the suspects could be transformed into valuable assets in the more urgent undercover campaigns against Soviet aggression.

Trait Anger evaluates person's general predisposition to become angry.

Unrealistic optimism is intertwined with the general predisposition that migrants can adjust to the conflict-ridden situation.

Midgley and Dowling (1978) advanced this approach by using different levels of innovativeness to scrutinize an individual's general predisposition to seek new innovation, depending on product categories and domains of interest (Vandecasteele and Geuens 2010).

Genetic influences on AAD also act via general predispositions to abuse licit and illicit psychoactive drugs (Kendler et al. 2007; Agrawal et al. 2008), predispositions toward externalizing behaviors in general (Cerda et al. 2010) and the tendency to self-select into environments where alcohol is widely available and its misuse socially condoned (Kendler et al. 2007; Gillespie et al. 2007).

In general genetic predisposition, differences in immunity and lifestyle, etc., will lead to heterogeneity in susceptibility to viral infection among the host population.

Considering that we could not establish the parental origin of the rearrangement, this large genomic deletion may represent a breast cancer susceptibility allele rather than a more general cancer predisposition factor.

This is suggestive of a general breed-predisposition for malignant tumours in the Golden retriever.

Therefore, there are only few confirmed cases identified in middle aged or elderly patients, the population in which a general increased cancer predisposition would present (Davies et al, 2003).