However, political parties tended to represent sectional interests and operate along clientelistic lines and prone to graft and patronage. |
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They were also less prone to misalignment or cross threading than either the traditional design or even the Whitworth thread. |
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Having a Keplerian system makes the problem more tractable, and less prone to model-dependent uncertainties. |
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Three nerves seem to be particularly prone to radiation injury that results in radiation neuritis. |
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She's prone to plain speaking and abhors hype, so she's admittedly uncomfortable with self-promotion. |
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I have a close friend who is prone to similarly abrupt and violent changes of mind. |
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It's easier to like or dislike abstract art, as any attempt at representational art is always prone to rapid criticism. |
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A drive down Highway 1 takes you to the capital, Wellington, a splendid city, though one that is prone to earth tremors. |
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One daughter is a star prone to wardrobe malfunctions, caught on lots of cameras. |
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Persistent questioners are much less prone to embarrassment than the rest of us. |
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People prone to severe allergic reactions need to carry an adrenaline injector pen that can help reverse the symptoms quickly. |
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Those entrenched enough to deride as fools or quislings anyone who questions war may also be more prone to edit events to fit their version. |
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All willows are fast growing and short-lived, and their wood is notably weak and prone to breaking. |
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These individuals have vivid imaginations, love to weave stories and tales, and are prone to exaggeration. |
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He is a messy, carefree drunk, prone to loud outbursts, spontaneous characterisations and ad-lib renditions of whatever comes to his mind. |
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I am not one to get overly-excited about junk science theories and am not prone to accepting all the peculiar goings-on with the paranormal. |
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They are comprised primarily of a rock called whinstone, which is very prone to vertical weathering and faulting. |
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Remind me not to read things when I'm tired and ratty, as I am prone to misinterpretation. |
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The teens were hampered by poor reading and research skills and were more prone to leave a site after encountering difficulties. |
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If the patient is prone to keloids, special garments may be used to reduce this scarring. |
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Ji said that the sudden crisis will aggravate people's mental problems if they are prone to depression, obsession and anxiety. |
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Allowing the tiny twosome to wreak havoc is the Brazilian midfield minder, prone to fisticuffs and protective of the rearguard. |
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Older varieties can be troublesome, prone to powdery mildew and wilt, particularly in the kind of hot dry summer we had this year. |
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Surely nothing to do with that absurd cultural stereotype that redheads are prone to bouts of irrational anger? |
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Hydrophobic integral membrane proteins are prone to sample losses during the workup and analysis. |
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Alcoholics are very prone to developing alcoholic liver disease and finally end up with liver cirrhosis and liver failure. |
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Origen and Augustine belonged to the Alexandrian school, which was prone to allegorization, largely because of their neo-Platonic philosophy. |
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He said he accepted she was one of life's inadequates who sought refuge in drink and was prone to self-harm. |
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He doesn't lose his cool as much as he used to, although he is prone to the occasional lapse of concentration after letting in a bad goal. |
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People with high levels of stress are also more prone to develop colds and other minor illnesses. |
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He is shedding an unwanted reputation as an iron-gloved, lead-footed fielder who has no range and is prone to errors. |
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Children with lead poisoning are prone to neurotoxicity, although the mechanism is not well understood. |
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While all agree he is tough and prone to losing his temper, there is almost universal respect for his abilities as a soldier. |
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It works like a leaven of forgiveness and nonviolence in a culture prone to revenge and retribution. |
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He was as fussy and fastidious as many great writers, prone to restless and often tiny adjustments. |
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For four decades he has quietly been a voice of reason and restraint in a critical world prone to overstatement. |
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These annuals love heat and aren't particularly demanding, but they are prone to powdery mildew, especially late in the season. |
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Excessively rich soil fosters leggy, less attractive growth and leaves plants more prone to pests. |
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She also thinks that people who have lived an indecent, ungodly life are prone to experience ghosts and revenants. |
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We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. |
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I don't wish to blame my children for everything, but they are a major liability when you're prone to blushing. |
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French archival laws became more liberal after 1975, and historians were less prone to see their task as glorifying the Resistance. |
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Rather, hard-core libertarians believe that government is naturally extremely prone to error, both moral and factual. |
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From experience, the rest of us are more likely to conclude that markets are very likely to be rigged or gamed, and prone to collapse. |
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If anyone is prone to believe this superstition, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable soon puts them right. |
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It is a centre for right-wing elements particularly prone to acts of violence. |
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However, many of the younger marchers, such as Gerry Donaghy, are prone to rioting, needing only a spark to set them off. |
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Proteins help strengthen and increase the thickness of the skin, making it less prone to fine lines and wrinkles. |
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I've always been prone to dry skin and hair, so I really noticed a huge shift when I began adding more oil to my diet. |
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All the lions and lionesses here are of a hybrid stock and thus are prone to producing defective offspring, it is pointed out. |
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He also was prone to filing lawsuits and making absurd financial demands to do even cameo roles in films. |
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Copvertibles are more prone to flexing than are hardtops, so they will benefit the most from a well-built roll bar or cage. |
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Decaffeinated or naturally caffeine-free drinks are generally better options for those who are prone to anxiety. |
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On the massage table, she massaged my body with arnica gel, starting on my upper back and shoulders, where I am prone to pain and tightness. |
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The problem with such a proactive system of justice is that it is prone to rough justice. |
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During early pregnancy, some women develop acne, especially those who were prone to breakouts during menstrual periods before becoming pregnant. |
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Massage areas prone to stretch marks with a washcloth or loofah to increase circulation to the area. |
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Personally, I find that shoes with an ankle strap of some kind are more comfortable, less prone to rubbing and more stable. |
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Patients who have cirrhosis with ascites are prone to spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. |
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Seemingly confident just a few weeks ago, she is now prone to utter sharp words about her critics in public. |
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These babies are malnourished and are prone to asphyxia before and during labour. |
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Clark ran off at the mouth, as he is prone to do, and is simply trying to save his future in the Democratic Party. |
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However, at-risk students are also particularly prone to drop out of community college altogether. |
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He's definitely a saddo, prone to self-pity and playing drippy ballads on his guitar. |
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He was wise and sagacious, but prone to dissension and his spirit was that of calmness under fire. |
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By illuminating areas that are prone to shadows with strong directional lights you'll find that the room opens up even further. |
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I believe that those who went on the rampage were essentially deceitful, avaricious, and prone to anger, hate, and violence. |
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Perry is prone to injury, but when he's healthy, he's an adequate defensive player with average power. |
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In fact, they describe him as an extremely driven character prone to mood swings and temper tantrums as much as euphoria. |
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Some breeds of horses are more prone to sarcoids, and of course, appaloosa was amongst that list. |
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Obese people are also prone to other lifestyle diseases like arthritis, backache, heart trouble and shoulder problems among others. |
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Those with severe nearsightedness are more prone to developing retinal tears, holes or detachments. |
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Bivalves like oysters, mussels and scallops are particularly prone to contamination because of the way they feed. |
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In 2007 we will be contributing 20,000 oil mallees in areas prone to land degradation. |
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The operation of the rotary engine means that it is not prone to backfiring on hydrogen, as conventional piston engines are. |
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The club's younger defenders all show potential but are prone to schoolboy errors. |
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He is not a shy, gentle man prone to philosophy and always mindful of his rustic Mantuan farming roots. |
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Being under stress causes you to tense your muscles, and this can make you more prone to injury. |
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Decorative features, such as balustrades in railings, were especially prone to disintegration. |
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Most people want their showbiz heroes and heroines to be screwed-up, unpredictable and prone to artistic tantrums, don't they? |
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Although both narrators are prone to purple passages, the texture of Singer's Gothic prose remains one of the novel's strengths. |
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Because of its marshiness and flat topography, Savannah is prone to flooding. |
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Ignition harnesses were prone to succumb to the damp British weather and the failure of the harness would also lead to the engine stopping. |
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Critics, notoriously influenced by what other critics have written, are often prone to drift onto bandwagons, consciously or not. |
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The route itself can be slick and frozen over, and exhausted runners may be prone to hypothermia in the thin, cold air. |
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The country's prisons are so congested that they are prone to disease outbreaks. |
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As a young sprat, I was prone to rummaging through the bargain bins of various local record shops. |
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We are not prone to second-guess police work, but the sniper investigation seems to have been marked by confusion and worse. |
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Experts have known for some time that cheetahs are particularly prone to eye injuries from thorns and spikes. |
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The center said there were 43 mudslides, most of them located in Nantou County, where the seismic activity has made the county prone to mudflows. |
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Though Shaw was prone to bouts of megalomania, he viewed his apotheosis with amused detachment. |
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Moreover, murderers are of all criminals the most prone to genuine remorse and self-reproach. |
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The lice are parasites and are sucking off essential fluids, while leaving a gaping wound prone to infection. |
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It is a time-consuming process that is prone to errors because of the many parameters. |
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The news media have also become more sensational, more prone to scandal and possibly less accurate. |
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Whether the wheels are toed in or out, casters like this are prone to dynamic instability at higher speeds unless additional damping is provided. |
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Actually people seeing her like that were prone to thinking I was belting her about. |
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As befits the trade, antique dealers are gabby and knowledgeable and prone to bemoaning that things aren't what they used to be. |
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Children who get dizzy and nauseated in the car are also prone to becoming seasick, trainsick, airsick, and sick on amusement park rides. |
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People with bifocal glasses are especially prone to neck aches because they may have to tilt their heads back to see things up close. |
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Rich people in the throes of divorce are prone to giving away money to relatives and friends or treating themselves to a new house or yacht. |
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So far we have established that it is hot, muggy, and the place is prone to the odd earth tremor. |
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He is primarily focused on nabbing viewers aged 15-to-25 years, a demographic especially prone to on-demand, binge-viewing. |
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This further exchange simply underlined the judge's view that counsel was prone to making not bad or mistaken points, but false ones. |
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Some rose varieties are especially prone to black spot and require regular spraying to keep the plants vigorous. |
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Depending on personal experience, you'll be more prone to monogamy or polygamy. |
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She's childish, sullen, moody and volatile, prone to outbursts of jealousy, weeping, rage and laughter. |
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Additionally, once logged, many national forests are prone to flooding, mudslides and stream destruction due to runoff and siltation. |
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Under his scrutiny Africa in particular is prone to dissolving in a singularly powerful mood of menace, fear, and disgust. |
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Its weight massed in the crowns makes trees prone to toppling in a strong blow. |
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But these are people unalarmed by the old hip-high railing, not prone to vertigo. |
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Since then, the mountainous county has been prone to mudflows and landslides triggered by torrential rains. |
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They are the least outwardly emotional, although they are the most prone to blubbing at weddings. |
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The size of the pelvic area varies in cows and those with small pelvic areas are more prone to difficulty. |
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Recording is prone to skips if you use your computer heavily while it's recording. |
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Then again, don't be disappointed when this fund underperforms the broad market, as it will be prone to do from time to time. |
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Lack of sleep is making me slightly more prone to mistakes and considerably more snappy. |
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Henceforth, men and women are prone to view each other as objects, which is why they are now ashamed of their nakedness. |
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He professes to be unpractical, yet is prone to complex diagrams to explain the inner workings of telecom circuits and market dynamics. |
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Mankind, they will say, is only too prone to follow faith unreasoningly, and needs no preaching nor encouragement in that direction. |
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Her voice is a startlingly versatile instrument prone to a metallic nasality. |
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In this state they are frenetic, unrelaxed and prone to bad judgment, caught up in the hysteria of the moment. |
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Among the antique roses, Bourbons, Kordes, and Hybrid Perpetuals are the most prone to black spot. |
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Such steep slopes are unstable and prone to slumping, so deltas often collapse. |
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Even when it was discovered that the land was unstable and prone to landslide, the squatters remained. |
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Just inside the entrance many large rocks had fallen and lots of loose rubble, indicating that the entrance was unstable and prone to rock falls. |
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As you might be aware, Tokyo is built on some slightly unstable land, prone to all manner of natural disasters, especially earthquakes. |
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Death of the whole tree will not be immediate, but reduced root development will make the larger trees unstable and therefore prone to wind-blow. |
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He also did several compression tests, which evaluate weak layers in the snowpack that might be prone to being triggered by a skier. |
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While ski areas maintain such slopes, back-country areas are prone to snowslides, especially after a new snowfall. |
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The baby was also quite irritable and prone to colic, poor sleep and frequent fevers with snuffles. |
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Any society which deals in both hard and soft currencies is prone to new divisions and tensions. |
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Add to this the fact that all wooden bows are prone to breakage so again would need to be replaced. |
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In this period women seem increasingly prone to protect their property rights against wasteful husbands, sons, or sons-in-law. |
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Abandoning our corsets would surely prevent the many attacks of the vapours we ladies are prone to! |
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So I'd become cold, prone to platinum cravings, and as easily bruised as an overripe apple. |
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Given these attitudes, they are prone to a number of vices, including lack of generosity, cowardice, and intemperance. |
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Overexcited nervous horses are more prone to health problems and bad habits or stable vices and can be dangerous for riders and owners. |
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Populations of listed plants like the northeastern bulrush are prone to extirpation because of their occurrence in sensitive habitats. |
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Although they are more prone to slip down, slippage is often not a problem with carbon posts, but it is a bummer if it happens to you. |
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He is prone to being overweight, to having a dodgy knee, to not being able to stay fit for a full season. |
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He is prone to fits of jealousy when he sees Primrose in the company of another male. |
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Despite lengthy recruitment and training processes, the picture is of teleworkers prone to stress, leading to burnout and rapid staff turnover. |
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Areas of the building prone to fires must have fire alarms and automatic sprinklers. |
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It's ideal for remote vacation cabins with no electricity or areas prone to power outages. |
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The very nature of the disclosure process makes it prone to human error and vulnerable to attack. |
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The steering requires constant concentration as it's very sensitive and prone to the slightest camber in the road. |
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Like your star sign, you are brave and prone to attacking people without remorse. |
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Similarly, cortical bone is less prone to diagenetic contamination than porous, cancellous bone tissue. |
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He's a cantankerous old man, set in his ways and prone to sulking to get what he wants. |
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The most beautiful are the old roses, but these can have short flowering seasons and be prone to disease. |
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Regular contact with water also makes women prone to water-borne diseases such as Schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis and dracunculosis. |
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Establishing shots and stock footage of the ships at Le Havre are uniformly muddy, grainy, and prone to flicker. |
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Some hawthorns are especially prone to leaf fungal problems, and highly infected plants may become sparse. |
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Typically, very thin originals, such as those on onion skin or similar papers, are the most prone to problems. |
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The disease attacks bark, leaving it open to infection, and makes brittle branches prone to fall off. |
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Histidines are often involved in acid base catalysis, and prone to activate nucleophiles by abstracting a proton. |
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Fractures with even small amounts of displacement are prone to nonunion, and operative treatment is recommended. |
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I recommend that those prone to dry skin take 1 tablespoon of flaxseed or hempseed oil each day. |
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The media is desperate for content and acting ministers are prone to stuff up. |
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Don't try to put too much stuffing inside the rolls, it only makes them harder to roll and more prone to tearing. |
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We are prone to desire more than we have, hate those who disagree with us and commit shameful things because of stupidity. |
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I also knew that the area where my aunt lives is prone to attempted burglaries and hijackings. |
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This genetic marker might help identify subpopulations of individuals genetically prone to insulin resistance, autoimmunity, and heart disease. |
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The local land is notoriously prone to erosion because the soil is only a few inches deep and overlies a sandy base. |
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The same cannot be said for the chassis and bodywork, which are prone to corrosion and have often been repaired badly. |
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The suet in suet cakes is rendered, or cooked, so it becomes less prone to melting and spoiling, and then is made into pressed cakes. |
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This inflow of foreign investment and credit capital may well exceed the absorptive capacity of economies already prone to overproduction. |
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Both men were prone to being over-serious about life, and Anne Darcy had always managed to somehow find a way past that seriousness. |
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Free and regular medical check-ups should be conducted in backward areas which are highly prone to these epidemics. |
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Young hognose snakes are prone to drying out and seem to require a higher humidity than the adults. |
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No war lord is prone to acknowledge any limits other than those imposed on him by a superior armed force. |
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Is there any real evidence that women in childbed were more prone to the nightmare, though? |
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We also have a lesser honeyguide in our garden forest, a species prone to use woodhoopoes and other hole nesting birds as their host. |
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Resting and perhaps spoiling and pampering players in fact I believe can backfire and make them more prone to injuries. |
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As a choleric sign it is prone to fevers and is linked to yellow-jaundice and sore eyes. |
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The model I had was prone to paper jams, and its design makes it sometimes difficult to remove stuck paper. |
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This is a city prone to paranoia at the best of times, as personified by that quintessential New Yorker, Woody Allen. |
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Dry soybeans are prone to have cracked seed hulls, which reduces germination. |
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Buildings with high humidity and water infiltration problems are particularly prone to mold growth. |
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The condition leaves a child short in stature and prone to developing a hunchback. |
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This is especially useful if the garden is in a cold spot and prone to late frosts or if wet weather has made the soil claggy. |
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The two majority parties have a long tradition of populist politics and they are quite prone to create clientelistic relations. |
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The topography is rugged and complex, prone to rockfalls and avalanches. |
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All spent cases landed well away from the shooters, incidentally, and none came back to ding our foreheads as some of the mini.45s are prone to do. |
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However, it is not too much to ask them to themselves act with strong morals and integrity, or else they may be prone to bribery or other forms of corruption. |
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In New South Wales, Australia, prison bosses had modified rostered activities, duties and shifts which were historically prone to higher levels of sick leave. |
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Well, applications are prone to all types of problems, bugs, and errors. |
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See, I'm prone to exaggeration, or at least overstating an argument. |
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When your middle and upper body are weak compared to your leg and hip muscles, you're more prone to low back pain which poor, round-shouldered runners are so famous for. |
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Comets are prone to outbursts of activity like this, but the exact reasons for the activity are not well understood, according to the European Space Agency. |
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He added that water from the sink, washing machine and wash basins is prone to overflowing and running back underneath the house instead of down the outside drain. |
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Not one normally prone to smugness, I couldn't help myself this week when I read that Bulgarian international Hristo Stoichkov is contemplating a move to Airdrie. |
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He was prone to the long-term unarranged borrowing of Paul's things. |
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About half of them were prone to not listening to orders and mouthing off. |
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Under pressure I never hook. I am more prone to cut the ball, if anything. |
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This new Carbon road shoe uses two carbon plates in the sole so you get stiffness where you need it for power transfer but is less prone to hot spots and foot aches. |
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She is domineering, prone to tactless remarks, and often self-centered. |
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If one compares multipolar Europe between 1900 and 1945 with bipolar Europe between 1945 and 1990, it might seem that multipolar systems are especially prone to deadly wars. |
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The mouth of the corrie gives a view of the cliffs and the distinctive feature of a massive rock slab, which is covered by snow in winter and is prone to avalanche. |
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His footballing genius was never questioned, but back home he was known as an egomaniac who was undisciplined, uncontrollable and prone to flights of folly. |
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People are people, and people are prone to carry the grudges of the old country with them. |
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Although light in weight and less prone to chipping than delftware, this new refined earthenware was still not as durable as white salt-glazed stoneware. |
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Indonesia is prone to collapse despite claims that it is a unitary state. |
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It is known that opaline silica is prone to dissolution on the sea floor. |
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The grouse population has traditionally been prone to yearly fluctuations, but global warming is being blamed in some quarters for a sustained slump in numbers. |
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The scaphoid and hamate are the most common bones to have nonunion after a fracture because their blood supplies are delicate and prone to complete disruption. |
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The community of 35 currently get their drinking water supply from a borehole next to the pier, but over the past few years the system has been prone to equipment failure. |
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Perhaps because of these factors, even today, blacks appear to be more prone to hydrophobia than whites. |
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The filmmaker seems too prone to adapt herself to backwardness. |
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Perhaps her mother was just borrowing trouble, as she was prone to doing. |
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Pushy and overenthusiastic parents may consciously or unconsciously hinder their children's development and make them more prone to early burnout and mental fatigue. |
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On the field he has been prone to howlers on the big occasion. |
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Ice buoys in the U.S. are found in navigable waterways prone to freezing. |
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It is an ideal cash crop for rural farmers in wildlife infested areas, as it is unpalatable to wildlife and therefore is not prone to crop damage. |
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This style of woodfire cooking is prone to sudden fluctuations in temperature due to the subtleties and different sizes of wood. |
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The defense has been prone to giving up long passes late in games. |
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Pansies are prone to fungal infections and young plants rot easily and calendulas can also fall prey to moulds, so I tend to plant these as seedlings too. |
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Sometimes they hear from character witnesses, like the defendant's schoolteachers, who will describe if he or she seemed immature or prone to taking risks. |
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Some are behemoths in the truest sense of the word, massive as oil tankers, others, small knock-kneed and timorous and as prone to panic attacks as barking deer. |
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Sufferers are also more prone to herpes and skin infections. |
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Some people are prone to both tension-type headaches and migraines. |
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They talked about how she was prone to forget her majorette baton and even her performance wig, but never her lip gloss, which she wore all the time. |
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To me it makes perfect, dangerous sense that intelligent, driven girls are prone to anorexia. |
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But the programs were buggy and often prone to false positives, alerting a network administrator too often to routine behavior. |
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His characters are prone to self-loathing and suicidal feelings. |
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After a year in the mountains he was a stick figure of his former self, prone to fevers and random dizzy spells that made his head feel like a vigorously shaken snow globe. |
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That gave a huge advantage to the sunny Republican prone to hugging supporters. |
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The rescue proved timely, as the area is prone to large tidal races. |
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Hazelnuts are prone to attack from a pest called the nut weevil. |
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There are also reptiles, like adders or grass snakes, slow-worms and lizards that are prone to fire damage because they cannot get out quickly enough. |
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Those who had watched the most television were more easily distracted and confused, more impulsive or restless, and more prone to obsessive behaviour. |
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Their back-up teams might be more prone to nostalgia and sentiment, especially those who have honed their tallying skills over many the long count. |
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Older methods of well construction, and the well's location in relation to septic or livestock facilities on many farms, makes older and shallow wells prone to contamination. |
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If I'd known you were prone to airsickness, I'd have flown more slowly. |
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It has to be cut thickly and is prone to warping and damage by woodworm. |
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He doesn't charm anyone, is prone to indecision about his personal life, and has depressive tendencies. |
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Design can be an issue, too, as aluminum stampings are more rigid than steel and prone to springing back to their original shape after being formed. |
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Occasionally, of an evening, I am prone to fits of activity which generally result in my strapping on the running shoes and going down to the riverbank for a jog. |
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Patients with diabetes are probably more prone to irreversible rather than reversible ischaemic brain damage, and small lacunar infarcts are common. |
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The article mentions that liver should not be had on a regular basis by those who are prone to gout because it is an excretory organ and high in uric acid. |
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She turns in dud stories, misses deadlines, and is prone to occasionally sleeping with her young, struggling musician sources. |
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For many parents it is more practical to buy a nonprescription diaper cream or ointment, like zinc oxide, to soothe and protect areas of skin that are prone to diaper rash. |
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For people prone to believe doctors like me are part of some malign conspiracy, nothing I say will make a difference. |
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I am a dawn riser, more prone to tormenting the early shift with headline changes than the late-nighters. |
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The mast is quite flexible, and, with this much sail and no standing riggings, the top is prone to twist to leeward considerably when the wind picks up. |
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In areas prone to frost heave or with poor drainage, additional drainage material such as drain rock can be placed below the footings to reduce water retention in the soil. |
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Also, left-handed men and women are likely to have less well developed spacial awareness, suggesting that they may be more prone to accidents such as car crashes. |
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He is even-tempered, generally upbeat, if prone to silence, and highly self-confident. |
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David Grann is a New Yorker staff writer who, by his own admission, is unadventurous and prone to get lost on the C train. |
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In fairness, like glossies anywhere, French tabloids are fallible, prone to playing up alleged trysts that fall flat. |
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They will find that they are prone to continuously misread and misinterpret their emergent partner, protagonist and rival. |
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Asian breeds, like Siamese cats, are also more prone to certain diseases. |
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Over the past two decades, however, Canadians have also been prone to buy into the merits of monetarism, lower levels of taxation and balanced budgets. |
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He is a mild-mannered and generous guy, not the kind of person prone to fits of pique or rage. |
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Nick, BirmiNghAm Danielle says, If you are not prone to spots then these sound like they could be razor bumps, aka ingrown hairs. |
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It is less prone to kinking than twisted rope and, depending on the material, very flexible and therefore easy to handle and knot. |
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In this classical humanist view, customs differ but people everywhere are prone to cruelty, a quality that Montaigne detested. |
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The Gulf is prone to tropical cyclones during the period between November and April. |
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Throughout its history, the khanate was prone to civil turmoil and struggles for the throne. |
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Are people who report recovered memories more prone to developing false memories? |
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Men are naturally exceeding prone to deceive themselves in the opinion they have of themselves. |
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The process took many years, and was prone to funding difficulties on more than one occasion. |
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Geologically, the lowlands formed as a rift valley about 100 million years ago and are prone to infrequent but significant earthquakes. |
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Casuistry is prone to abuses wherever the analogies between cases are false. |
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The Gorge is very prone to landslides, and over 20 are recorded in the British Geological Survey's National Landslide Database in the area. |
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Furthermore, because of the mandrel they are more prone to failure from corrosion and vibration. |
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They can intersect at various angles, especially under the nose of a ridge, and create massive blocks or wedges of roof prone to failure. |
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Before modern dams came to China, the Yellow River was extremely prone to flooding. |
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For patients prone to retropulsion, wearing shoes with high heels may diminish or prevent the backward stepping. |
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Snow lies on Windy Hill for an average of 35 days annually and the area is prone to fog or low cloud. |
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They're prone to giving away their rations and living off the smell of an oily rag. |
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Interestingly, the media in the United States are least prone to the tall poppy syndrome, which is one of the many things I admire about America. |
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He was funny and self-effacing, though prone to fits of anger. |
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Denise Phillips is a joy as Joyce, unmitigatedly thick and prone to outbursts of tuneless singing. |
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But Wolf Larsen seemed voluble, prone to speech as I had never seen him before. |
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White blood cells are responsible for fighting infections and when the white cell count is low people are prone to infections. |
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The study, for website Gumtree, found that while most of us would help a neighbour we are still prone to the odd slip. |
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He was concerned that highly cellular leiomyomas were prone to be misdiagnosed as endometrial stromal tumors. |
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Generally, onion sets produce an easier crop in Scotland and are less prone to onion fly and mildew. |
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Is there something about orchestral clarinettists that makes them particularly prone to settling down in one place? |
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Mrs Mosley was born with a rare congenital kidney disease called nephrosis, which left her prone to infections and without much of an appetite. |
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Jack Russell terriers are prone to a few problems with the potential to cause pain and discomfort to the eyes. |
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Phlox are prone to eelworm but this is not passed on when you grow more by this method. |
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Mitchell is the nervier, more uptight one prone to glorious explosions of pent-up rage. |
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This patient population is also prone to serious neuraxial complications following epidural catheterisation. |
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Conures are prone to salmonella and psittacosis, which can cause fatal pneumonia. |
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Hierarchism and complex procedures of delegating responsibility have made the system prone to corrupt practices. |
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Guaranteed Stop Loss Orders are a fantastic risk management tool for when trading volatile markets and those that are prone to gapping. |
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Calibrating volumetric feeders was cumbersome, time-consuming, and prone to human error. |
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In mice and people prone to juvenile diabetes, these cells become rogues, killing off beta cells as if they were invaders. |
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Some of the best varieties can be difficult to grow, such as Cox's Orange Pippin which is prone to disease and doesn't do well in the cold. |
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Researchers discovered that GM-CSF producing B cells were more frequent and more prone to activation in MS patients. |
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Blackfly are attracted to nasturtiums, caterpillars often attack canary creeper and lilies are prone to lily beetle. |
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Geographic areas on the outskirts of the Empire were prone to attack and required heavy military presence. |
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I shave every three days using a Mach 3 razor as my skin is quite prone to razor bumps. |
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The flying wings are inherently unstable as they have no tail and are prone to spiral dives. |
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Every engineered kit is prone to failure, at unforeseeable time in unforeseeable conditions from unforeseeable multiplicity of causative factors. |
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At school I was arty-farty, somewhat sensitive and prone to exorbitant longings and extravagant demands. |
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Ceilings are prone to hairline cracks, especially if there are rooms above, and these can be hard to eradicate permanently. |
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