Sentences with phrase «own proclivity»

Canadians show a slightly higher proclivity to pursue overseas employment opportunities than their OECD counterparts, with 50 — 60 % either living abroad or expressing a willingness to do so.

These actions can not be explained by mere sexual proclivities, or «boys being boys.»

Lembree says that business owners with a proclivity to worry that their decisions may come back to bite them down the road should play it cautiously and seek the advice of an IP attorney.

Our tester was equipped with all - wheel - drive, and while it was fine for whatever we threw at it in the suburbs and the big city, the proclivity toward a rear - wheel bias means that the Stelvio is more for the «sport» part of SUV than the «utility» part.

I suspect a male with this proclivity would garner far, far less sympathy.

Many people confuse a passion with a proclivity.

But already his diet has been widely discussed, including his proclivity for fast food, well - done steak with ketchup and diet cola.

He traces his proclivity for shaking up the status quo to some of history's most notable change makers — the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.

Dynamic — a proclivity to seek change and adapt based on your mode of work, mood, circadian rhythms, and a myriad of other factors.

My feature on Hackett in the current issue of Fortune explores the CEO's proclivities by way of guessing what he might do with Ford.

Additionally, Tchir argues that European investors have shown a proclivity to rush into trades leading to what he calls «periods of violent indigestion,» pointing to the big swing in German bund yields seen early last year following the European Central Bank's announcement of more QE as a prime example.

This trend has a lot to do with the type of stocks hedge funds favor: companies with high earnings growth and a proclivity for acquisitions, as well as «momentum» stocks — stocks on an upward tear ahead of the market.

The proclivity to detect and dwell on stressors and threats — a tendency that unites neurotics — explains why the personality trait is not just associated with experiences of fear, moodiness, worry and frustration but also a higher - than - average risk factor for common mental disorders.

Zuckerberg's proclivity for the fruity cocktail — which wasn't actually trendy during the era of Facebook's founding — is just one of the fallacies that The Social Network propagated, he says.

Given Chao's proclivity toward industry interests, she may be more open to privatizing an integrated air traffic control system and working with the drone industry's timelines.

Sadly, however, it's not anything to laugh at — not only has the controversy reconfirmed the Internet's proclivity to breed hate and misogyny, but the Gamergate controversy sparked a series of online and offline threats, directed at members on both «sides» of the issue.

For $ 99, they'd get information about their genetic history and possible disease proclivity.

The proclivity of the Jews for finance, trade, and exchange has been frequently noticed by Jewish writers and the concentration of Jews in the cities is a present as well as an historical fact.

The thing that some people talking about genetics are getting at is that people have different proclivities toward entrepreneurship and different sets of skills or endowments intellectually.

Beyond Charney's proclivity for attracting lawsuits, the other big challenge for the company is to deal with its debt — $ 175 million as of the end of last year.

I think it would be hard to make a bet that someone is not going to be an entrepreneur based on their skills and proclivities or at a particular point in their life.

The millennials» much - known proclivity towards sustainability issues and positive brand images may have you believing they are your prospective buyers.

«Chapo always talks about the drug business, wherever he is,» one erstwhile confidant told a jury several years ago, describing a driven, even obsessive entrepreneur with a proclivity for micromanagement.

Mr. Wolf, noting the client's proclivities, advised his designers to develop versions of the box that were slightly darker and lighter in color and to keep them in reserve, just in case.

Plus, seeing how other companies match up their target personas» proclivities with marketing activities should serve as guidance for those still trying to figure out how to create marketing their leads and customers will love.

This also is beneficial to borrowers who have a proclivity to forget to pay bills on time or who have a tendency to misplace bills.

In a formal complaint and in an interview in New York magazine, an employee named Chelsea Leibow claims Ms. Agrawal discussed and touched Ms. Leibow's breasts in front of colleagues, exposed her own body to others at the office and demanded details about her subordinates» sexual proclivities.

More importantly for today's Republican leaders of the House and Senate, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, respectively, the story of how Cleveland winged himself back into office presents a cautionary tale that should dissuade their embrace of the current president's more protectionist proclivities.

Why is this high school history teacher with drama club proclivities lecturing me on taxation?

Those who invest by the seat of their pants often project that same proclivity onto me and assume that I must be doing the same.

It will, however, deal a devastating blow to those 700,000 people's ability to do professional work and proclivity to obtain an education.

In looking at Kickstarter from it's inception, researchers found that a majority, 55 percent, of Kickstarter investors turn out to be men versus 45 percent women, and it seems the investing proclivity of male investors extend to this medium as well.

Bird's proclivity for, well, most everything serves him well once again, as each of his songs are punctuated by his piercing whistle (if you haven't heard it, you should stop reading andgo watch this), always spot - on guitar playing and classically trained violin plucking and bowing.

Because of Tarantino's proclivity for sadistic bloodshed and his lack of any meaningful teleology, Christian film critics rarely approve of, or think critically about, his filmography.

Illegal immigrants typically are not well educated, hence their proclivity to be religious.

You wouldn't build a similar report asking about the proclivities of a racial or ethnic group based on the actions of one group member.

Although identifying these attributes with generations or cultures helps in understanding them, Larry's experience suggests the larger human proclivity for becoming what we do.

Look, there's very legitimate criticism to be made of Perry for politically allying with these folks, given their proclivity for mixing prayer meeting and political rallies, given the Hagee connection, and some other stuff.

But you do have a proclivity to sin because of what He did.

We are left to ponder whether, in a future case, Kennedy will be swayed more by his Equal Protection proclivities than his federalist convictions.

Honesty and loyalty take a back seat to greed and force, as traders indulge extreme proclivities for acquisitiveness, and raider destructiveness runs amok.

«Something» inside... dare I say the Holy Spirit (still praying and would never want to say something is a revelation from God and it is not) is leading me to think it is a «big deal» and that these people whom I love are being led astray and spewing false doctrine that appeals to their own prideful proclivities and demeans others in the process.

Given his proclivity for provocative proclamations about oral sex, «real» men, and the reasons (later retracted) for Ted Haggard's infidelities, you might assume Mark Driscoll's new book on marriage, cowritten with wife Grace, would stir the pot to boiling levels.

It isn't, of course, just risky sexual proclivities that need to be identified, as the Congregation for Catholic Education's document makes clear.

NOTE: I stress that «choice» is often there when someone already has bisexual proclivities and decides to «pick» one sexual expression, rather than be fully themselves as bisexual, or because other matters make it more obvious to them to pick one.

Sabar investigated the seller of the artifact — a shady German fellow named Walter Fritz, whose varied exploits and proclivities make the characters in the Da Vinci Code seem downright conventional.

his analysis of sundry maxims and «verbal museums» like Bartlett's supports the claim that quoting is a quintessentially human proclivity: «Can one even think without the words of others?»

The very human personal characteristics of even the greatest scholars — including their religious or anti-religious proclivities — are often not irrelevant to the kind of scholarship they produce.

Of course it is outrageously unfair, but hardly surprising, given the well - documented ideological proclivities of the journalistic establishment.

Schleiermacher extols childhood as a «pure revelation of the divine from which no conversion is necessary,» but he realized that «nature had also implanted the inclinations and proclivities that could lead to human destruction» and, therefore, never failed to emphasize the duty of adults to nurture children.