And the public may have to suspend its predilection for placing blame and accept that even a perfect system, alas, will not be risk-free.
Among these, the feedback control (or closed-loop control) has been occupying a place of predilection.
I have a predilection for reading about cold places while in the sweaty grip of summer, so the timing of this book is an added recommendation.
Fredell is a garrulous bald man with glasses and a predilection for snus, the tea-bag-like sachets of tobacco that Swedes place underneath their upper lip to buzz their gums.
But we had come to a place that, like other southern Indian restaurants, tolerated few American predilections.
That is a very British predilection, and it may be one reason for his wincing unease when placed at the hub of events; as with Sacha Baron Cohen and, years ago, Peter Sellers, you get the perplexing sense of a highly gifted, essentially shy man, far from comfortable in his own skin, forcing himself into the spotlight.
Then there was the psychopathic and dead Serge who had a predilection for killing and eating young women in the town's only underpass – a place best avoided – and his brother Toni.
For one thing, it was fascinating to be in a place where the word "cholesterol" never crosses anyone's lips, despite a local predilection for eating a piece of beef at least once every three hours.
In an off note, the dinner hour conjured the dauphine's predilection for playing pauvre: a haute "prison meal," said the chef, with innovative ingredients in place of the industrial (the "ketchup" contained roasted plums), served in TV dinner trays.
John Humphrys, on Today, probes relentlessly, but it's hardly the place you want to open up about your addictive personality or sexual predilections.
