Corporate leaders say that the Chinese public has rapidly become more prone to question the wisdom of big investment projects, particularly in the chemical industry.
Where businesses wanted to save money, offshoring became the norm, and people were less prone to question it because of its fashionable business jargon status.
Ratliff has been more prone to question the superintendent's initiatives.
Mary is highly strung, prone to "foolish questions, sudden laughter and strange tears", and John had on occasion prescribed laudanum to help her sleep.
When she felt blue, she was prone to ask questions she couldn't answer.
According to our experience, older people are prone to react to questions like these with avoidance tendencies which could mask psychiatric comorbidity.
As Lewis remarks in a related context, we are prone to "mix up questions of what is generally conducive to what with questions of what caused what," though, "Every historian knows that actions often have unintended and unwanted consequences".
Polling data indicate that households heavily exposed to the bureau's marketing effort were much more likely to send back the form, even though these same households were more prone to consider the questions an invasion of their privacy.
She's also created characters who are marvelous sendups, including the hepped-up, chest-bumping players whose cliche-ridden macho attitude in interviews is skillfully mimicked by the actors, a television interviewer prone to asking embarrassing questions in the smug guise of journalistic courage and a talk-show host with the self-importance of a big fish in a small pond.
Belevitch dominated international conferences and was prone to asking searching questions of the presenters of papers, often causing them some discomfort.
Even Auletta, a gracious and moderate moderator, but one still prone to asking tough questions, appeared at times bemused at best by the responses - or should I say lack thereof.
