Sentence examples for propensity to lay from inspiring English sources

In order to answer this question, a team of researchers in Germany turned to the Nasonia vitripennis wasp, a species famous for its propensity to lay its parasitic eggs on doomed fly pupae.

Males but not females demonstrated a reduction in lifespan at high intakes of very low P C diets; a result which was consistent with their greater propensity to lay down excess body fat on such diets and hence reflects the costs of obesity (a point that we consider further below).

Prevarication about sex does not by itself prove a general propensity to lie.

By contrast, stimulation of the left or right parietal cortex had no effect on the participants' propensity to lie.

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By itself, the fact that a person has lied about sex tells you nothing about that person's general propensity to lie.

Inga Karton and Talis Bachmann of the University of Tartu adopted a different and novel approach, by examining the natural propensity to lie spontaneously during situations in which deception has no consequences.

And he faces expulsion from the party he has worked for all his life.His downfall is due in large part to his propensity to lie his way out of personal difficulties.

One look at the nightly news or ten minutes with the morning paper would convince most people, whatever they think of Christian theological tradition, of the empirical reasons behind the notion that there is something "off" about humans, and that our propensity to lie, cheat, steal and kill certainly seems written into the genes from one generation to the next.

The Washington Post has put up a fun "Fact Checker" page which graphically shows the history of Donald Trump's propensity to lie.

When I was eight, I had a crippling, life-ruining fear of rain and a propensity to lie on the floor of my mum's car on family days out.