Sentence examples for propensity that from inspiring English sources

Mr. Azoff is also known for bending the truth when it suits his purposes or those of his clients, a propensity that long ago earned him the nickname Swerving Irving.

He is a top forward in Japan's professional league and is nicknamed the People's Rooney for a stocky build and goal-scoring propensity that remind some of the English star Wayne Rooney.

Hedge fund managers have long complained that investors are too quick to pull their money in rocky times, a propensity that exacerbated many funds' problems during the financial crisis.

Psychosocial factors may contribute to the excess CHD propensity that is observed; however, subgroup heterogeneity in psychosocial disadvantage has not previously been systematically explored.

In previous sections, we remarked on the difficulty of identifying the precise propensity that could, according to some, ground fitness ascriptions.

Brachionus plicatilis was abundant in the lake because of the euryhaline propensity that enables this species to replace other Brachionus members in fluctuating saline environments (Kipriyanova et al. 2007).

However, it is plausible that the actual use of rights talk does have the propensities that Glendon suggests.

Or perhaps all this shows that the notion of 'propensity' bifurcates: on the one hand, there are propensities that bear an intimate connection to relative frequencies and rational credences, and that obey the usual probability calculus (with finite additivity); on the other hand, there are causal propensities that behave rather differently.

These physical and electrical processes that occur in the electrospray ion source have been used to selectively ionize lipid classes possessing different electrical propensities that are now known as "intrasource separation and selective ionization".

Similarly, one might reason, if we do not treat those humans without FMS as having FMS, we might develop psychological propensities that could lead us to mistreat humans who have FMS.

But, alas! the mind must be already victorious over the worst of its evil propensities, that can profit by this harsh medicine.