They were less prone to tipping forward than quad skates.
They lived in smaller communities, so they were less prone to disease.
They were less prone to physical aggression, irresponsibility and law-breaking (antisocial PD); they had less impulsivity, suicidal gestures and emotional instability (borderlines); and they were less prone to hostility followed by contrition (passive-aggressives).
The impression I had was that sportswriters of that generation were less prone to extravagant predictions than the modern-day journalist.
Iron-gall inks displaced carbon inks because they were less prone to smudging, but they turned out to be corrosive over time.
Liverpudlians were less prone to suffer than Londoners – argues David Green, professor of geography at King's College London – because of their fondness for tea imported through Liverpool's docks; they were more likely to boil their water.
Many more received bare-metal stents — older products that studies indicated were less prone to the clotting risk but that are often not as effective at keeping arteries open.
The new study, led by Dr. Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine in Basel, Switzerland, found that farm children were less prone to allergies and asthma than nonfarm children.
They were less prone to despair and more optimistic about their prospects for a more fully integrated life in America getting an education, finding a job, raising a family.
They said a perception that breast-fed babies were less prone to blood pressure problems might have been fueled by a series of small, unreliable studies that tended to support the theory.
Similarly, it was emphasised that more hydrophilic polymers were less prone to protein adsorption.
