Sentence examples for shown a predilection from inspiring English sources
Since entering the Senate, they say, she has shown a predilection for compromise at the expense of the poor.
Officials said Mr. Bush had asked for a broad array of candidates.. Modern presidents have shown a predilection for choosing federal judges to run the bureau.
Although the consensus is that Russia cannot afford to alienate its European customers by cutting supplies, Moscow has shown a predilection for gambling in recent weeks.
In his own appearances with the orchestra Mr. Nézet-Séguin has shown a predilection, perhaps odd in a new beginning, for requiems.
Although the United States has never shown a predilection for European-style agreements based on customs unions, the contrast is a stark one .Thefight for TPA, though, is likely to be long.
From the starting gate, master filmmaker Roman Polanski has shown a predilection for power plays in claustrophobic situations.
Employing a broader temperamental palette than she used for "Penelope" Ms. Snider still showed a predilection for the wistful and melancholy.
It tends to strike females in their teens & 20s most often, & shows a predilection for members of closed communities, especially hospital & medical personnel.
In those books as well as in later volumes, she shows a predilection for rhyming couplets and quatrains, triplets (tercets with one rhyme) and longer single-rhyme stanzas.
Bred by a vital humanism, which penetrated westward and laid the foundations for the Italian Renaissance, painting showed a predilection for perspective and three-dimensionalism.
His best-known tragedy, Von einem Ungeratnen Sohn (1594; "Of a Spoiled Son"), showed a predilection for the scenes of horror and crime that characterized the repertoire of the English actors working in Germany.
