Sentence examples for was a propensity from inspiring English sources

His only apparent hint of tension was a propensity to blink frequently.

As George H.W. Bush's ambassador to the United Nations, Thomas Pickering said about Operation Just Cause: "Having used force in Panama... there was a propensity in Washington to think that force could provide a result more rapidly, more effectively, more surgically than diplomacy".

However, although Dmax was always <0, there was a propensity for Dmax to increase with intraspecific richness.

The second component of this study was a propensity score matched-pairs analysis of outcomes attributable to CDAD.

The comparator group for each exposure of interest was a propensity score matched group of patients prescribed warfarin.

The majority of SSRs were embedded in non-coding DNA and there was a propensity of tri- and hexa-nucleotides in exons.

This was a propensity-matched cohort study in hospitalized patients receiving at least 500 mL IV crystalloid within 48 hours of SIRS.

In this old-fashioned understanding, evil is a propensity to destructive and self-destructive behaviour that is humanly universal.

In Washington, there is a propensity to find bipartisan fault in most conflicts.

Ambition like that can cause an artist to make plenty of mistakes — part of the curse of genius, it seems, is a propensity for educating oneself in public.

The chief one, it seems to me, is a propensity for magical thinking, the flipside of the dreamy delights of la dolce vita.