But some food-safety advocates suggested that placing much of the American pork supply in the hands of a company that has proven prone to dangerous mishaps at best and malevolent short-cutting at worst could indeed jeopardize American lives.
Iraq's politics have proved prone to deadlock and brinkmanship; the last government took six months to form.
Since joining the Mets in a 2006 trade-deadline deal with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Pérez has proved equally prone to maddening streaks of inconsistency and dazzling streaks of brilliance.
But the weight of the Explorer is not evenly distributed, falling most heavily on the left rear tire, which has proved the most prone to failure.
And Mr Yeltsin, though risen from his sickbed with a new reformist resolve, has proved himself alarmingly prone to changes of mood and policy.Those factors are liable to inspire in Mr Chubais a sense of urgency.
In the eyes of many of his liberal supporters, Obama the President has proved way too prone to court the votes of conservative legislators at the cost of alienating liberal ones - way too willing to do deals to get something passed rather than to stand on principle and risk no deal at all.
Midfielder Astrit Ajdarevic has been a regular, Iran international striker Reza Ghoochannejhad has failed to score and keeper Yohann Ulien-Thuram has proved somewhat error-prone.
The combination of organ and orchestra has proved alluring for composers prone to apocalyptic gestures: Mahler deploys the organ in his triumphalist choral symphonies, the Second and the Eighth, and Richard Strauss places a solar C-major organ chord in the opening section of "Also Sprach Zarathustra".
But, in office, Mr Wahid has proved erratic, incompetent and alarmingly prone to bouts of attempted authoritarianism.
Rather, it encourages the abdication of thought, and promotes a proliferation of mindlessness, and it does so at a historical moment when the President has proved himself to be pathologically prone to distraction and incapable of formulating a coherent idea.
