Sentence examples for historical propensity from inspiring English sources

There are significant figures in the military establishment – including Lord Richards, the former chief of the defence staff – who believe, given the strength of Moscow's convictions and its historical propensity to accept pain in the perceived national interest, that an increased escalation will not work and could indeed be more damaging to Great Britain than to Russia.

Here is how the weighting breaks down: As you can see by the pie graph, your credit rating is most affected by your historical propensity for paying off your debt.

The forced ethnic neutrality was especially important to Tito, as the component republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had a historical propensity for killing one another in horrible and grandiose ways.

(If the president is offered any gifts, Americans can only hope the Secret Service gives it the most thorough inspection in human history, given the Russians' historical propensity to generously provide everything from malware-laden USB drives to bugged national emblems. But Trump is actually pretty restricted on what he can offer here.

While Wall Street's natural inclination is to cheer the ongoing evisceration of Dodd-Frank, it should know that it is in the Street's own interest to have legal boundaries in place to prevent financial institutions from succumbing to their historical propensity toward greed and excess.

"There is a historical Arab propensity to try to work out 'deals.' Even though we knew the Saudis well, and trusted them, we could not be completely certain what course they would take.

A case series comprising 51 patients treated for intractable hemorrhage after cardiac surgery at a single center, with propensity-score-matched historical control patients from the same center, showed that rFVIIa may be of benefit.

The main idea of ARG-walker is to estimate, through analysis of ARG topology, the frequencies of historical recombinations, which are then used to approximate the recombination propensities of extant individual chromosomes.

Residents who rent a house have a lower intention to move, while people living in historical blocks that are at the early renovation stage have a higher propensity to move.

Progression rates were compared with a historical cohort of 99 patients who had never received lenalidomide using a propensity score approach, a statistical methodology that can compare treatment effects from independent observational studies in an unbiased manner [ 63].

Senator Byrd was also remembered on Friday for his personal qualities: the courtly charm that won him many friends on both sides of the aisle, his propensity for remembering constituents' names and life stories as well as endless reams of historical facts, and his talent with the fiddle, which he used to entertain both constituents and colleagues.