Swimmers, chefs, army cadets, telesales executives … Duckworth examines them all, and what she finds is that natural talent – the genius prized by her father – does not make humans disposed to succeed so much as the qualities she sums up as "grit".
The report said Putin developed a preference for Trump because of "many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia, such as former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder".
"Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia, such as former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder , the report says.
The Russian president's attraction to Trump may have stemmed from "positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia, such as former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder," according to the report.
That made Germans ill-disposed to dip into their pockets to help a country whose workers were able to retire much earlier on generous pensions.
Many models replace a linear consumption process (in which products are made, used, and then disposed of) with a closed loop, in which used products are recycled.
"The mere invitation made me more favorably disposed to policy makers," he wrote in his summary of the event, even though he abstained from eating any of the cookies at the meeting, "on principle".
If the Oscar nominations made you feel well-disposed towards Hollywood again, the Oscar ceremony was enough to put you right off it.
He thought that perhaps Zhou's advanced age would make him more disposed to speak openly.
Offerings to the dead, which were required by custom, were intended, among other purposes, to make them well disposed.
