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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People prone to severe allergic reactions need to carry an adrenaline injector pen that can help reverse the symptoms quickly. |
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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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Alcoholics are very prone to developing alcoholic liver disease and finally end up with liver cirrhosis and liver failure. |
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Hydrophobic integral membrane proteins are prone to sample losses during the workup and analysis. |
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We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. |
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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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Decaffeinated or naturally caffeine-free drinks are generally better options for those who are prone to anxiety. |
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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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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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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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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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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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She's childish, sullen, moody and volatile, prone to outbursts of jealousy, weeping, rage and laughter. |
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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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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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Having a Keplerian system makes the problem more tractable, and less prone to model-dependent uncertainties. |
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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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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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Areas of the building prone to fires must have fire alarms and automatic sprinklers. |
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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 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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It's ideal for remote vacation cabins with no electricity or areas prone to power outages. |
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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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In the national championships that year, she participated for a lark and won the silver in the rifle prone event. |
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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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Rawson stomped over to her prone position and lifted her to her feet by the front of her dress. |
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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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Since the 1860s the Norway spruce has been the traditional tree, but now firs, less prone to needle-drop, have become fashionable. |
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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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Those with severe nearsightedness are more prone to developing retinal tears, holes or detachments. |
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In 2007 we will be contributing 20,000 oil mallees in areas prone to land degradation. |
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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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The very nature of the disclosure process makes it prone to human error and vulnerable to attack. |
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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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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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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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Children with lead poisoning are prone to neurotoxicity, although the mechanism is not well understood. |
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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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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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So far we have established that it is hot, muggy, and the place is prone to the odd earth tremor. |
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The club's younger defenders all show potential but are prone to schoolboy errors. |
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Her readiness to drop everything for him offered constancy to a man prone to bouts of introspection and feelings of inadequacy. |
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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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Being under stress causes you to tense your muscles, and this can make you more prone to injury. |
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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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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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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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Westerners were often prone to neglect the ordinary precautions concerning health, which gradually weakened their constitutions. |
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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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These individuals have vivid imaginations, love to weave stories and tales, and are prone to exaggeration. |
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But is he down in a prone shooting position and only wounded, playing possum again? |
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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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The steering requires constant concentration as it's very sensitive and prone to the slightest camber in the road. |
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The inherent smallness of the atomic soul in contrast to Godhead makes the atomic soul prone to illusion, whereas Godhead is not. |
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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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Now in his fifties, and prone to limp if his arthritis was playing him up, he was grateful for the chance to end his working life here. |
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Though Shaw was prone to bouts of megalomania, he viewed his apotheosis with amused detachment. |
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If the patient is prone to keloids, special garments may be used to reduce this scarring. |
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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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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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Surely nothing to do with that absurd cultural stereotype that redheads are prone to bouts of irrational anger? |
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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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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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It is a time-consuming process that is prone to errors because of the many parameters. |
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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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The news media have also become more sensational, more prone to scandal and possibly less accurate. |
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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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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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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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In addition, depressed individuals are less successful in their efforts to stop smoking and more prone to depression following smoking cessation. |
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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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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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One of their sons suffered from schizophrenia and was prone to violent psychotic episodes. |
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Syzygium spp. and some members of the eucalypt family are prone to something called a psyllid, which shows up as a small bubble on the leaves. |
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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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Patients who have cirrhosis with ascites are prone to spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. |
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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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Vazquez, though he's more prone to the gopher ball, has a markedly higher strikeout rate, and much better control. |
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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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Recording is prone to skips if you use your computer heavily while it's recording. |
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However, at-risk students are also particularly prone to drop out of community college altogether. |
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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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Some rose varieties are especially prone to black spot and require regular spraying to keep the plants vigorous. |
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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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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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Perry is prone to injury, but when he's healthy, he's an adequate defensive player with average power. |
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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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My prone body would lie limp, my mental faculties away with the fairies with no estimated time of return. |
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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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Bivalves like oysters, mussels and scallops are particularly prone to contamination because of the way they feed. |
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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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One condition to which diabetics are significantly more prone is heart disease. |
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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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Because of its marshiness and flat topography, Savannah is prone to flooding. |
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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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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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In the center of the ring lay a prone Johnson with his hand covering his eyes from the burning hot Cuban afternoon sun. |
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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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Well a little research would have been helpful, are you normally prone to jumping in to things with your eyes closed? |
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The range of internal and external rotation of the hips should be measured with the child prone and knees flexed to 90 degrees. |
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Herbaceous plants that are dying back may be prone to fungal attack and can look awful, but don't be too hasty. |
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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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What's more, risk-averse investors in the U.S. Treasury market are more prone to hedge their exposure to the dollar by selling greenbacks. |
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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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No war lord is prone to acknowledge any limits other than those imposed on him by a superior armed force. |
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Like other crakes the corncrake was more prone than most to colliding with overhead wires. |
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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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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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I've always lived in old houses and am prone to seeing figures out of the corner of my eye or being aware that someone's watching me. |
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Animals with heavy coats, such as Highland cattle and Galloways, were the most prone to problems, he added. |
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The cobia is a highly rated, hard-hitting game fish that is prone to long, powerful, determined runs and occasional leaps. |
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Boats stored ashore are especially prone to having pooling water on the deck and cockpit, which can stain the boat. |
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I had tripped up and was tumbling over it face down, prone and helpless, the way you do in a bad dream. |
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Research from the United States indicates that children prone to glue ear could benefit from cod liver oil and vitamins. |
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There is an increased risk of injury from falls and people are more prone to seasonal illnesses like flu. |
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Yet, people are more prone to make mistakes when sleep deprivation and all the other perplexities of the race take their accumulative toll. |
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Surgical excision has the potential risk of rendering a child athymic and prone for developing immune dysregulation and immunodeficiencies. |
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Farmworkers who come into contact with insecticides and pesticides are prone to chronic illnesses. |
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Some cars have computers that calculate this for you, but these are prone to inaccuracy. |
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Depending on personal experience, you'll be more prone to monogamy or polygamy. |
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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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Additionally, once logged, many national forests are prone to flooding, mudslides and stream destruction due to runoff and siltation. |
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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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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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Instantly, the visiting fighter is on top of his prone opponent and quickly smashes him into unconsciousness with fierce blows to the face. |
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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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However, political parties tended to represent sectional interests and operate along clientelistic lines and prone to graft and patronage. |
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Athletes with hypertrophied muscles may be prone to develop this problem if they have the underlying popliteal arterial anatomy. |
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And you know intellects are most prone to emotional distress, as proven by your own hysterics. |
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Birds that are fed diets with large proportions of sunflower seeds, peanuts and walnuts are often prone to obesity. |
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If you train back all the time but never chest, you may be prone to shoulder and pectoral injuries because of the imbalance. |
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However, the coatings often don't adhere well to the charged surfaces of metals, so they're prone to peeling and flaking. |
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The mutant protein in each of these conditions is prone to clump together, forming aggregates, which appear to damage brain tissue. |
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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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It is due to its indiscriminateness that human sexuality is inherently prone to perversion. |
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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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He is prone to injury, not particularly fast, and his defence is less than diligent. |
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From time to time, we realize the groundlessness of our being and are then prone to ontological anxiety. |
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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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Now, less prone to the pervasive embarrassments of adolescence, her emotional appreciation of the book is simply a memory. |
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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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He was prone to write long, gushy love letters to women not his wife, and once in love he found it difficult to focus on his work. |
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Crucially, it provides an account of why humans are so endemically prone to addictive behaviour. |
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He was a part-time alcoholic, prone to epic drinking bouts, who buried scores of bottles of gin in the back garden for emergencies. |
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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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This area is however especially prone to changes in the overall political climate. |
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The technique itself is prone to failure and amounts to experimenting on a human being. |
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Alighting from a shuttle bus, the merry band of revellers spot a dosser lying prone and fully concealed under a blanket inside a bus shelter. |
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With just a little instruction both adopted good prone and sitting positions and began to easily pop steel targets 70 yards downrange. |
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As Kulick would have it, Leontes collapses prone downstage left, and an attendant nonsensically tosses a bearskin over him. |
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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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Eric dropped to the ground and fired from the prone position, sweeping left and right with the firing gun. |
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The malcontent was unsociable, asperous, morose, ruminative, of economic speech, and prone to ranting when provoked. |
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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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He picked his sword back up and hefted its weight before moving predatorily in the direction of the prone man. |
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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 country's prisons are so congested that they are prone to disease outbreaks. |
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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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Is there any real evidence that women in childbed were more prone to the nightmare, though? |
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Riding boards in a prone position has been around probably longer than stand-up surfing. |
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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 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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And he acknowledges his own fallibility, the fact that he is part of the problem, in need of radical reform, dangerously prone to evil. |
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Driving in an intoxicated state makes a person prone to accidents as alcohol impairs judgement and slows reflexes. |
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Vertical incisions provide improved surgical access and may be less prone to infection. |
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While wool is excellent at hiding dirt, any dirt that does become embedded in the carpet is prone to damage the fibers by abrasion. |
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Soap tightens the skin, leaving you more prone to cuts and, post-shaving, flaky legs. |
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Superstitious turtle Churchy LaFemme was the putative author of many of these gems, though the rest of the cast could be just as prone to poesy. |
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He saw that this would be chaotic and prone to violent flare-ups, and proposed a foreign military presence to keep the peace. |
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Charophytes are prone to calcification and have left an abundant fossil record up to the Cretaceous, and perhaps beyond. |
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But if you're prone to wearing dark, conservative colours, a contrasting pop of colour like fuchsia works in more ways than one. |
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Passive smoking affects non-smokers and makes them more prone to respiratory infections. |
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Children are those who are most prone to disasters like earthquake, fire and flood. |
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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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Among the antique roses, Bourbons, Kordes, and Hybrid Perpetuals are the most prone to black spot. |
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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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As expected, the U.S. government inflated the currency, as governments are prone to do. |
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Often inflexible and stubborn in their love lives, some will be prone to jealous rages. |
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A particular problem with composition shingles is that due to the heat-softening, they become very prone to damage. |
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Being injury prone was a big botheration as he acquired a reputation of being unfit. |
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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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Parrots in the wardroom, Great Danes leading errant sailors home, prone penguins, reindeer wandering around submarines. |
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We would ask anyone who is going fishing or walking in areas which are prone to be cut off to check details of high tides with their local coastguards. |
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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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Individual DNA repair capacity strongly influences skin cancer susceptibility as illustrated in cancer prone DNA repair-deficient xeroderma pigmentosutn patients. |
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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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It has to be cut thickly and is prone to warping and damage by woodworm. |
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One of three siblings, her childhood was plagued by illnesses which left her with double vision and an eyepatch, and prone to hallucinations and visions. |
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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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That gave a huge advantage to the sunny Republican prone to hugging supporters. |
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However, like all auto parts, radiators are prone to damage and corrosion. |
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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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These traits of spoken language belong to a vulgar household, filled with the clamour of a large family fond of coarse jokes and prone to sentimental effusions. |
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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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The rescue proved timely, as the area is prone to large tidal races. |
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Unreckonable moments had passed, and he awoke to discover that he lay prone upon a hard, flat surface and that he was restrained once more with thick, hempen ropes. |
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If I'd known you were prone to airsickness, I'd have flown more slowly. |
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Indonesia is prone to collapse despite claims that it is a unitary state. |
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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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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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This can be a result of emotional difficulties or being prone to anxiety. |
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Asian breeds, like Siamese cats, are also more prone to certain diseases. |
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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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However, most of the regions in China that will accommodate this kind of paddy are either in flood prone areas or are affected by short growing seasons as winter approaches. |
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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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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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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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Those who indulge in deviant behaviour like smoking, drinking, drug abuse and breaking the law are also more prone to becoming pathological gamblers. |
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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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He doesn't charm anyone, is prone to indecision about his personal life, and has depressive tendencies. |
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Sufferers are also more prone to herpes and skin infections. |
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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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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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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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On the field he has been prone to howlers on the big occasion. |
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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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Here the road has been widened and supported on cantilever beams over the gorge and at the most slip prone area a protective roof has been built over the road. |
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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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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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James Mason was not a man prone to wild hyperbole or flippant remarks. |
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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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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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In fairness, like glossies anywhere, French tabloids are fallible, prone to playing up alleged trysts that fall flat. |
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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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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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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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He is even-tempered, generally upbeat, if prone to silence, and highly self-confident. |
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The greater emphasis on stealth may not find favor with trigger-happy players, and the inability to fire whilst prone and in the vicinity of an object is rather irritating. |
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He was prone to the long-term unarranged borrowing of Paul's things. |
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The defense has been prone to giving up long passes late in games. |
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Roads prone to gridlocks and bumper-to-bumper traffic have both the traffic cop and the commuter blowing horns and exchanging a colourful repartee. |
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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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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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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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The filmmaker seems too prone to adapt herself to backwardness. |
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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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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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Assume that the council was proposing to erect or construct a road adjoining privately owned property which was known to be prone to frequent flooding. |
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Wood-based materials such as particle boards or fibreboards are generally less prone to problems associated with reaction wood than solid wood products. |
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About half of them were prone to not listening to orders and mouthing off. |
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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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Muscle endurance testing can be performed with sustained upward gaze, neck extension while in the prone position, and arm abduction against resistance or gravity. |
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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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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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With a layer of ice on top, the water beneath is less prone to freeze. |
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See, I'm prone to exaggeration, or at least overstating an argument. |
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In many taxa, such as mammals and Drosophila, the males are heterogametic, and, thus, hybrid male offspring are more prone to be inviable or sterile. |
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She also had a condition which meant her blood was prone to clotting. |
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Under pressure I never hook. I am more prone to cut the ball, if anything. |
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Hazelnuts are prone to attack from a pest called the nut weevil. |
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Likewise, with a wall prone to damp, raw brick can be easier to maintain, avoiding the problems of paint or paper peeling, or plasterwork buckling. |
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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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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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She played a sullen nutcase prone to hysterics and evil giggles. |
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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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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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She is domineering, prone to tactless remarks, and often self-centered. |
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Perhaps her mother was just borrowing trouble, as she was prone to doing. |
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Cancer patients are prone to cross infection and their reduced immunity, which is a common side effect of chemotherapy, means many patients require single room facilities. |
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Of course, broke freelancers or young writers struggling for a first publication credit are prone to doing what they have to do to get in print and get some payment. |
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The change, in which both hero and beast are prone and wrestling on the ground, gives a strikingly different appearance from the standing or kneeling schemes. |
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Some people are prone to both tension-type headaches and migraines. |
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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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