Foucault used the panopticon as a way to illustrate the proclivity of disciplinary societies subjugate its citizens.
The spies are hobbled by a culture of timidity and by the proclivity of any ponderous bureaucracy to eschew risk and waddle behind the curve.
This is, once again, the proclivity of a profession that has long left the real world for mathematical niceties in ever more intricate models.
Two other features of California — its border with Mexico and the proclivity of its residents to live along remote canyons and hilltops — contribute to the excessive fire danger.
He is right to deplore the proclivity of No 10 and departmental press offices for "trailing - a polite word for leaking".
Nor was the crisis the result of the American and European love affair with housing, or the proclivity of English-speaking consumers for excess credit.
The proclivity of C.E.O.'s for misleading and falsely reassuring shareholders is also vividly recalled, in a book that works hard to combine insight with color.
To test their device the two researchers studied the well-established proclivity of breast-cancer cells (pictured above) to colonise bone.
Tapped penalties and 22 drop-outs abounded, and Danny Care's incessant darting summed up the attitude, as did the proclivity of Chris Robshaw, Nick Easter et al to step in at fly-half and release team-mates with deft offloads.
Tools available on the Web — in addition to the proclivity of younger people to adapt to them — has made it easier to create a Web site, blog or network.
Addressing the matter of relentlessly upbeat recommendations by stock analysts, he noted "the proclivity of firms that sell securities to retain and promote analysts with an optimistic inclination," especially when the brokerage firm also acts as an investment banker for the company whose stock it is recommending.
