What Fitzgerald learned, principally, was a mode of narration — the damaged overreacher, as recalled by his wonder-prone, meaning-seeking sometime sidekick, a seasoned listener.
Some of the biggest subsidies (relative to commercial rates) go to those living in the most flood-prone areas, meaning people are encouraged, by those deep subsidies, to live where they shouldn't.
In the report that Firestone distributed today, Dr. Guenther asserted that when a tire fails, the Explorer is prone to oversteer, meaning that the back end of the vehicle swings out during a turn, which can cause a rollover.
Vietnam's stockmarket remains one of Asia's smallest, and foreign investors are reluctant to buy shares in firms the state will continue to control, especially those in such areas as energy and transport that it regards as strategic, meaning prone to meddling.
For example, one novice student described her particular project as "finicky," meaning prone to errors or failure.
DOLPHINS RELEASE CENTER The Miami Dolphins released the injury-prone center Jake Grove, meaning Joe Berger will start in the opener Sunday at Buffalo.
The side-effect of such fail-safe design may be that the safety-instrumented system is prone to spurious activation, meaning that the normal operation of the process may be interrupted in an untimely manner.
For instance, the cheerful study participants were less likely, on average, to live to a ripe old age than the more serious ones, in part because happy-go-lucky people are prone to "illusory optimism," meaning they underestimate health risks and are less likely to follow medical advice.
Airport staff members, virtually unchanged since Soviet times, are "soapy," Mr. Belyayev said, using a polite Russian expression meaning cynical and prone to pilfering.
So many of those undergoing treatment are at different stages in their recovery, meaning services are prone to integrating people who are still using heroin with clients who've achieved abstinence – clearly not the most constructive way of doing things.
The rate actually was just about the same for true stories -- meaning people were prone to delete even accurate information once someone commented with Snopes.com, according to Adrien Friggeri, a computational social scientist at Facebook and co-author of the study.
