"Many western cultures have a predisposition to viewing acts of violence committed through particular forms of advanced technology," says Grayson. "They are seen as being more precise, humane and therefore civilised, particularly when applied against 'bad people'".
As for Barack Obama himself, Mr. Plouffe's portrait simply amplifies what most readers already know about the president from earlier books and news reports: that he is an idealist who is also a pragmatist — cool, self-confident, deliberate, with a predisposition to take "the long view of things".
"What's so interesting about this is that you would never find all of these pieces of data together unless you had a predisposition to a particular point of view," said David A. Harris, a professor of law and values at the University of Toledo College of Law and author of "Profiles in Injustice," to be published in February.
"We are going to look at these waivers, especially on airplane spare parts, and our predisposition is going to be, view them favorably, as opposed to the prior administration's policy," said a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter.
We discuss these perspectives around three topics: smallholders' predisposition to adopt silvopastoral practices, their views about needing external payments to sustain their livelihood and the diffusion of innovative sustainable practices.
The analysis of risk in individuals with a familial predisposition to inflammatory bowel disease corroborates this view.
A total of 60 min of physical activity per day is recommended for healthy Asian Indians, in view of the high predisposition to develop T2D and CVD.
Did they ever once stop to consider their genetic predisposition to ruining her sex life?
We, the Church, need to apologise for our part in perpetuating rather than challenging ill-informed beliefs about LGBTI people, such as the slanderous view that homosexuals have a predisposition to prey on the young.
The Semmelweis reflex (just had to include this one because of its name) is the predisposition to deny new information that challenges our established views.
The latter finding is interesting in view of our results, in particular since predisposition to severe pneumonia is clinically well established in such patients [30, 31].
