Sentence examples for predisposition not to from inspiring English sources

The church had a "predisposition not to believe" children who made complaints against priests, he said.

The Catholic Church was more concerned with protecting its own reputation than helping victims of clergy abuse, and had a "predisposition not to believe" children who made complaints, Cardinal George Pell has told the royal commission into institutional responses to sexual child abuse in Australia.

"My predisposition was not to change anything," he added, "but in this calendar year, we've had so many changes to our business that my brand marketing couldn't keep up".

The U.S. Supreme Court in Maryland v. King, for example, held that entering arrestee DNA in databanks does not implicate substantial Fourth Amendment concerns, since police do not test for genetic predispositions "not relevant to identity". We argue that policy implications of genetic testing laws cannot be so neatly demarked.

Finally, there is strong evidence, both from animal and human studies (Chodankar et al., 2005, Hong et al., 2010, Widschwendter et al., 2013), that BRCA1 mutations lead to cancer predisposition not only via cell-autonomous mechanisms, but also via alterations in hormone producing cells that influence, from a distance, the cells from which ovarian and breast cancers develop.

The movie's ensemble portrait of parents (many of them ministers) with adult gay or lesbian children strives to demonstrate that homosexuality is a genetic predisposition, not a lifestyle choice, and that those who quote Leviticus to justify their animosity are guilty not just of intolerance but also of selective piety, an inability to understand historical context and poor reading comprehension.

The evidence suggests, then, that biophilia is a predisposition, not a hard-wired urge like those for food and sex.

That is, your genes are a predisposition, not a fate, and the expression of your genes is much more dynamic and modifiable than previously realized.

We have legitimized that women exist and that they have rights; we have realized that there exists different religions beyond Christianity; we have understood that aberrations from heterosexuality are a predisposition, not a curable ailment.

The reason why other states haven't joined appear to be a combination of lack of awareness and a predisposition to not take on the federal government.

So the mystery of this is that the psychological predisposition to reacting to pain doesn't seem to be determinative.