Aggressiveness, therefore, is the propensity to commit such an assault.
The second is the propensity of police community support officers to throw their weight around.
Canetti's haunting comments on crowds and fire noted that the most striking and dangerous trait of the crowd is "the propensity to incendiarism".
In that story, and others, it is the propensity for things to get out of hand and the obsessions that take over his characters' lives, that are Mr. Millhauser's real terrain.
In the bicentennial essay for Newsweek, Mr. Levi said: "The one thing that we ought to worry about is the propensity of this country to overreact, and to engage in cycles of bitterness.
It proved its worth by predicting several self-organising effects among crowds that are visible in real life.One is the propensity of dense crowds spontaneously to break into lanes that allow people to move more efficiently in opposing directions.
One of these is the propensity to envy.
Similar is the propensity with the average lift pressure.
Of particular interest is the propensity of localized water to be favorably displaced by a ligand.
The Blaze bike light seeks to overcome one of the biggest issues that cyclists face — that is, the propensity of motorists to turn without seeing them.
What's also noteworthy is the propensity of so many city startups to wreak havoc on existing, profitable industries without generating big profits themselves.
