Which is why pretty much everyone believed it would be France - with its statist and interventionist penchant - which would blow up the transaction.
This is not only apparent in their penchant for mergers, which has led to capacity reductions and fare increases.
Art scholars have long known about Monet's penchant for caricature, which was common for artists of his era.
He was known for his penchant for whiskey, which in those days was often consumed in the tunnel.
He watched Jacobs's interest in art, for instance, flower into a penchant for collecting (which has at times necessitated borrowing large sums of money).
The Democratic National Committee sent out a press release yesterday on Mr. Romney's "penchant for secrecy," which noted that he has yet to provide a complete tax history.
De Haven's penchant for grotesquerie, which served him well in the gouty, pustulant Old New York realms of his earlier novels, merely seems curdled and gratuitous here.
Less is remembered of her regal manner, however, than of her penchant for finery which she was able to satisfy by dipping into the wide-open coffers of the insular kingdom.
The chef, Adam Leonti, has a special penchant for grains, which he mills himself to make bread, pasta, and pastries, a practice he started as the chef de cuisine at Vetri Cucina, Marc Vetri's acclaimed Italian restaurant in Philadelphia.
Spears also shares a penchant for snakes, which can also be poisonous but are rarely to be found in South Yorkshire, with shlock-rocker Alice Cooper, who also wrote the fittingly titled 1989 track Poison.
Mr. Blair has proved nimble at brilliant reinventions in the past, but the question remains: Can he outrun British democracy's penchant for fatigue, which has sometimes claimed leaders at the most surprising times?
