Sentences with phrase «predisposed toward»

How we are predisposed toward one another, how we respond to requests, and how good we are at kindness and generosity all play a part in a marriage's success.

They are temperamentally predisposed toward the working together, connecting with one another — aspects of cooperation that's essential to what we want to achieve.

Taking recent attempts to map the human genome as a starting point, he proposes a moment when this technology has advanced far enough to predict who is predisposed toward illness and who will remain well.

Because of this, fire animals are predisposed toward behavioral disorders such as restlessness, mania, and separation anxiety.

Consider doing a little research to find out if your dog's breed is predisposed toward eye conditions, such as glaucoma or progressive retinal atrophy.

At NAIA we are not predisposed toward new legislation or regulation.

As I mentioned in my earlier notes on the Giulia Ti sedan, Alfa Romeo has both an advantage and a disadvantage with me: I own two older Alfas, so I'm predisposed toward the marque, yet I'm also familiar with the brand's vintage greatness, meaning the modern products have to live up to my nostalgia - tinged affection for their forebears.

I might come predisposed toward the marque, but I also bring exceedingly high expectations not limited to oil on the driveway and grinding second - gear synchronizers.

Given the brevity of the revised Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire — and its potential for patients — it could become a useful tool for research as well as treatment of patients and intervention for those who are predisposed toward a number of mental health disorders, Fergus said.

In other words, watching programs with violence did not lead to increases in aggressive behavior either in the sample as a whole or in subgroups predisposed toward acting aggressively.

Then people who are not predisposed toward him may find him to be more authentic.

When we are born we find ourselves already conditioned and predisposed toward a life that is alienated from God's will and alienated from faith in God.

As a result, millennials appear far more predisposed toward weighing hard data with objective scrutiny, and placing more relevance on these figures than on soft data findings.

Data tends to drive the decisions made by millennials, who are predisposed toward skepticism and tend to rely on their own insights and research to spot potential investment opportunities.

Yet Wall Street analysts, always a group somewhat predisposed toward looking on the bright side, say the lack of enthusiasm could actually be a bullish indicator.

Our culture can often predispose us toward cynicism.

These norms predispose us toward their perpetuation, and inevitably involve us in sin.

Not exact matches

Nonetheless, human beings are naturally religious when by that we mean that they possess, by virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set of innate features, capacities, powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.

(4) There is no evidence to date for a basic biological process that predisposes an individual toward abuse of alcohol.

And while there are many factors that contribute to his tendency toward depression, research shows that how we were parented influences how our genes are expressed and that would include genes that predispose us to mental illness.

An unprecedented search for the roots of canine aggression and fear has identified genetic variants that predispose a dog toward such behaviors.

Researchers say they could not determine whether adolescents who were predisposed to use marijuana paid more attention to marijuana advertising or whether the advertising may have influenced adolescents» attitudes toward the drug.

Constan said that while it's true most of the PAN students were already predisposed to science, the study showed that their participation helped them to further develop their science interests and take the next steps toward a career path.

Interestingly, we have earlier reported for the predominance of the inflammatory milieu of the pancreas [17, 18], adipose [35] and bone marrow in WNIN / Gr - Ob rats [14] and probably this may be an important confounding factor to predispose WNIN / Gr - Ob rats toward development of pancreatitis, as compared to their age - matched parental control rats [17].

«We're gaining some sense of confidence that there are a certain number of genes that, if adversely affected, predispose patients toward having this problem and possibly not healing well,» Koltun said.

Researchers have noted pleasure deficiencies shown on brain scans of a variety of people, finding that frequent abuse of food or drugs actually alters the brain, causing it to not light up with dopamine as it once did.Chronic overeating can also lead to diabetes and predisposes the body toward inflammation, insulin resistance, elevated blood pressure, psychiatric illness, poor digestion, hormone imbalance, and malnutrition.

This, the authors of one study believe, means that eating red meat alters your gut flora in a way that predisposes your body toward TMAO production, and subsequently, heart disease.2 This was confirmed by giving the omnivores a course of antibiotics, after which they did not produce TMAO.

I guess I'm just philosophically predisposed to the country moving toward a simplified tax code that doesn't let the government decide what individual choices (e.g., home buying) are more socially desirable than others (e.g., renting) by giving a tax break to those groups of Americans is deems more worthy of receiving them.

Shallow femoral groove, weak ligaments and mal - alignment of the tendons and muscles that straighten the joint are all conditions that will predispose a dog toward luxating patellae.

Sadly, some of them are still genetically predisposed to be aggressive toward other dogs, which is often why they get into trouble and get such a bad rap.

Loose facial skin predisposes dogs toward these defects and is against breed type.

favorable attitudes toward violence) that predispose children to experience more severe problems later on (e.g. believing that one is the cause of domestic violence, becoming violent themselves).

Child - rearing attitudes are cognitions that predispose an individual to act either positively or negatively toward a child.

«No»... She would be publically / officially giving away her predisposed negative attitude toward the real estate industry.