Sentences with phrase «predisposes someone»

What Locke could not appreciate, however, was that the same neurochemistry that allows significant flexibility and makes human beings malleable to their environment also predisposes them in certain basic ways.

So having a family history predisposes you and or having a personal history.

Several important studies during the past decade have demonstrated that breast - feeding has either no protective effect or predisposes infants to the development of atopy.

When you ask your child to do something, whether they are toddlers or teenagers, you need to think about how they will process it, how their temperament predisposes them to react to the request, and what your actions will be if they don't do it.

Soap predisposes the nipples to chapping and cracking.

They may become «little adults» in an effort to stabilize the family as well, but it unclear as to how much this predisposes them to suffer emotional problems in later life.

My Czech heritage predisposes me to love my vegetables fried.

Hair loss will not only have an adverse effect on your looks and personality but also predisposes you to early age baldness creating a trouble for you.

Something about the campus environment predisposes students to react to seemingly negligible events (an email about Halloween costumes, rumors of exclusion from a frat party, one person hearing racial slurs from a passing driver) with shocking levels of anxiety, including a particular distress about free and therefore potentially offensive speech.

Each attempt stands on its own, until the point at which practice predisposes us to recognize and seek excellence in little ways, and to realize that our battles are won in the smallest of details.

Many point to peculiarities of the Catholic Church (its celibacy rules for priests, its insular hierarchy, its exclusion of women) to infer that there's something particularly pernicious about Catholic clerics that predisposes them to these horrific acts....

Some sort of «prevenient grace» predisposes humans with quarters to enter into the maze and «to go on to perfection.»

No one familiar with the signs and symptoms... can challenge this statement... It is an entirely different matter, however, to believe — as Smith apparently does — that... the alcoholic possesses a metabolic individuality which predisposes to addiction.

This exploration apparently led Smith and his co-workers to the conviction that the alcoholic suffers from an abnormal endocrine system which predisposes him to alcoholism.

Each generation predisposes the following one.

Some exponents of the biochemical conception of the etiology of alcohol ism, such as R. J. Williams, mentioned earlier, claim that there is a metabolic peculiarity that specifically predisposes certain persons to alcoholism.

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

I note that the researcher in the article which you cited above was careful to choose Buddhist monks for his study and not just anyone as if he did the latter, there would be the possibility that he would encounter persons like myself whose minds dissociate during intense / deep meditation given that the biology of such persons predisposes them to this:

Despite the waning of Catholic faith, those regions continue to demonstrate a residue of supposedly Catholic anti-egalitarianism, which predisposes them to fascisms of various flavors and degrees.

Accordingly, any inheritable tendency that predisposes parents to producing females spreads.

While more research is needed to determine if multitasking is physically damaging the brain (versus existing brain damage that predisposes people to multitask), it's clear that multitasking has negative effects.

You might want to try «altercasting,» a technique that predisposes people to act the way you want them to.

While you may think these successful 8 percenters are born predisposed to these talents, research says that successful people achieve their goals not simply because of who they are, but more often because of what they do.

But it can be problematic, especially if you are genetically predisposed or have a family history of eating disorders, experts say.

In addition to optimism, entrepreneurs are predisposed to a high tolerance for risk.

With people who are genetically predisposed to disordered eating, there's usually some underlying mental health issue: anxiety depression, etc. that is triggered by restrictive dieting.

We're predisposed to lie to make ourselves look good, which may be great for the moment but doesn't do anything for our long - term health.

And for a lot of leaders, we are predisposed to having our minds made up before we have heard any other ideas or suggestions.

The success of legendary dropouts cited (satirically) on Silicon Valley — and of other self - made titans, like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Richard Branson — suggests that formal education may, in fact, be a waste of time for those naturally predisposed to empire building.

Our culture can often predispose us toward cynicism.

DNA tests can tell you where your family is from and what health conditions you might be predisposed to get.

Whereas Janna often struggled to access capital, NexJ was able to tap into «a good circle of previous investors that were predisposed to work with us again,» he says.

As humans, we're predisposed to doing things the same way.

With their recently published book Creative Confidence, the Kelleys have set out to convince us all that human kind is creatively predisposed.

Many business leaders and organizations are predisposed to say no, thereby quashing experimentation and innovation.

A new study that examines the flow of information on Twitter has found that people are predisposed to boost the signal of lies.

The second - generation Jewish intellectual with his background of Talmudic dialectic is mentally predisposed to Marxism to a degree which he himself rarely appreciates.

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.

In the same way that students who attend top universities may be predisposed to getting higher paying jobs than those who didn't go to college at all, one could argue that the really great entrepreneurs don't need any help from an incubator.

(It may even be that high levels of systemic inflammation predispose people to this stress pathology.)

Kaplan compares the issue to concerns about violent video games desensitizing and predisposing players to violence.

As an adult, he notes that his mother was sort of right: There are genetic factors that predispose some people for drug addiction.

This trend is going to accelerate with token sales, as folks who are even more predisposed to the pure computer science end of the spectrum end up founding valuable protocols.

Remember that baby boomers are predisposed to being more reluctant than your millennial clients when discussing international diversification opportunities.

Polling on taxes is always a bit fraught — people aren't typically predisposed to wanting higher ones.

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.

Clarida now seems predisposed to three views about monetary policy that could significantly influence the Fed's actions going forward:

Professional relationships are cultivated and, over time, leads ideally become proponents of your brand, predisposed to purchase from you before any other supplier.

They were later subdivided into subtropical race 4 (STR4) and tropical race 4 (TR4) to distinguish the strains that need predisposing factors to cause the disease from the ones that don't.

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.