Sentence examples for propensity for high from inspiring English sources

A Maine Yankee with Irish blood (and Irish wit, coloring, and propensity for high drama and strong drink), Millay was born in 1892, which places her in the fin-de-siècle generation of Pound, Eliot, Marianne Moore, H.D., and William Carlos Williams.

Monsanto and Syngenta grow weak, inbred corn with a propensity for high yields and a resistance to insects and ship it to the mainland for crossbreeding.

Dark coloured rocks with low conductivity will have a high propensity for high surface temperatures and may influence lichens and weathering (André et al., 2004).

The vigilant behavior observed in sP rats with low exploratory drive and low risk-taking behavior is interpreted here as high innate anxiety-related behaviors and may be related to their propensity for high voluntary alcohol intake and preference.

However, we predict that such deformations will occur only for membrane patches that have the inherent propensity for high curvature, reflected in the tendency to create local distortions that closely match the curvature of the BAR dimer itself.

Nigh on impossible to pronounce, what it means is, I've inherited my parents' propensity for high cholesterol.

With Lady Gaga's new album ARTPOP coming out this month and her propensity for high-production tours, Carter's duty would have been heavy this year.

After accounting for land-cover changes and climate, our model under-estimates observed fire frequency during ca. 1990 2002 and over-estimates it thereafter, suggesting that a multi-decadal shift to industrial forest conversion and forest landscapes may have diminished the propensity for high-frequency fires in much of this globally significant tropical region since ca. 2000.

Similar associations were observed for watching TV more than 60 min per day and having a TV in the bedroom, in relation to increasing propensity for high-fat and high-sugar foods.

In vivo inhibition of spiking could last for tens of milliseconds, most likely due to the iNC neurons' propensity for high-frequency burst firing and to the slow kinetics of the relatively large synaptic conductances at iNC to Golgi cell synapses.

Relative validity of this approach was explored by relating usual propensity for high-sugar and high-fat foods, respectively, to energy-adjusted sugar and fat intakes calculated from one 24-h recall interview, which was also assessed in the majority of the children by parental proxy.