Sentence examples for prone to certain from inspiring English sources

And that's before we even acknowledge the biological fact that certain races are genetically prone to certain body shapes.

People with AIDS are much more prone to certain cancers like non-Hodgkins lymphomas and Kaposi's sarcoma, but not to breast, colon and lung, the most common cancers in this country.

Men who smoke are more likely than non-smokers to lose the male sex chromosome - which could explain why male smokers are more prone to certain cancers than women who smoke, scientists have said.

They explained that young athletes are more prone to certain injuries, especially stress fractures; tendinitis; a degenerative condition called osteochondrosis; and damage to the growth plates of bones that can stunt them for life.

From his interest in human biological variation, Dr. Lander has worked with Affymetrix, a maker of DNA chips, to develop a device that would scan a patient's genes, pinpointing those that differed from the consensus human sequence and that might make their owner prone to certain diseases.

"Part of the problem with old charm is that it's not modern and is prone to certain things that don't work as perfectly as in a new building," said Alan S. Elliot, a psychologist who has been at 5 Patchin Place since 1992.

Thus, population-specific differences of CNV frequency could make a certain human population more prone to suffer certain types of disorders.

On the other hand, we're all prone to a certain sentimentality about women being given an equal opportunity in what is (rightly) considered to have been a world unfairly dominated by men until a few years ago.

It might be authorial projection, or simply the fallout from a half-developed theme, but his suggestion that the characters themselves are prone to a certain self-consciousness is revealing.

Especially interesting work in this area was done by two Israeli-born psychologists, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, who developed a theory according to which human reasoners are inherently prone to making certain kinds of cognitive mistakes.

From its opening -- the spiritual "There's a Meeting Here Tonight," in an arrangement full of finger snapping, hand clapping and humming -- the group is prone to a certain peppy slickness.