Sentence examples for prone to splitting from inspiring English sources

The sharp granite is hard on the skin: worn fingertips become painful and prone to splitting.

The ongoing gap in educational performance appears to be due to families of a lower economic class becoming more prone to splitting up over the decades.

The Decatur workers also bitterly denounced a lawsuit that contends that there were quality control problems at the plant for more than a decade, including processes that may have created faulty tires more prone to splitting apart.

Kellogg School's Ward believes that Indian business groups are particularly prone to splitting because they don't involve daughters in their family business.

You'll have to find earbuds that'll fit inside the screw-on caps and be careful when cutting the slits — if you don't want to heat up an exacto knife, you can use a different blade, although the Instructables' author, mowdish, warns that you'll have to cut slowly because, "The plastic is a little brittle and is prone to splitting if you apply too much pressure".

Trees identified as being prone to splitting could be excluded from breeding populations and add value to plantation forestry.

First, liberal parties are notoriously prone to splits; and second, they are just not that popular.

AMONG Christian denominations, the Presbyterians stand out for being democratic, decentralised, and hence prone to splits on points of principle.

And the lithically minded noted that limestone is prone to splits and fissures, not entirely unlike Mr Miliband's party.

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WITH its decentralised governance and rebellious spirit, Presbyterianism has always been fissile and unpredictable; it can evolve in any ideological direction and is prone to splits over points of theological or even political principle.