"Her powerful inclination was to make up a better-days-ahead story.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that a trained dog has a powerful inclination to do what we secretly want them to do.
In the autobiographical section of the document, Sor Juana traces the many obstacles that her powerful "inclination to letters" had forced her to surmount throughout her life.
But, if journalists enjoy being raffish and self-mocking, what explains our equally powerful inclination (especially in the United States) to bang on portentously about the Founders, the First Amendment, the Fourth Estate, and the people's right to know?
His policy was to make every possible use of Caesar's adopted son Octavian (the future emperor Augustus), whose mature intelligence he seriously underestimated, and to drive the Senate, against its own powerful inclination toward compromise, to declare war on Mark Antony, who had controlled events immediately following Caesar's death and who now was pursuing one of the assassins in Cisalpine Gaul.
The black box nature of these companies leaves them especially vulnerable to conspiracy mongering: Where information is scarce, speculation becomes that much more powerful, an inclination that Republicans have learned to exploit.
As Viroli demonstrates, they exhibit instead the characteristics of servility, including flattery, blind devotion to powerful men, an inclination to lie, obsession with appearances, imitation, buffoonery, acquiescence, and docility.
And thanks to the fact that the GTO is powered through its rear wheels, the car is immune to torque steer, the annoying inclination of powerful front-drive cars like the Saab 9-3 Acura TLa to to hop around under heavy acceleration.
"While right-to-buy remains a powerful symbol, there's an inclination for people in No 10 to fight for its continuation," Sampson says.
So, too, has been his inclination to torment his increasingly powerful neighbor.
If there is in some of us a powerful urge to dominate, there is in others an inclination -- perhaps even a desire -- to submit.
