EU's predilection for package deals, it is quite possible that the two issues will become linked, at least tacitly.
AUSTRIA'S predilection for grand coalitions, which have governed the country for much of the post-war era, may be ending.
Novelists will often display a predilection for a particular narrative point of view.
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According to an industry source, its predilection has always been to remain independent though it will satisfy investors by exploring alternatives.
In many ways, Chinese buying habits at auction (particularly in Hong Kong) follow a cultural predilection towards long-term value and stability.
Germany's predilection for all-round austerity is a mistake, with financial markets now worried as much about deep recession as about deficits.
The Earl of Beaconsfield was prime minister twice, a Jewish-born Anglican convert of Portuguese origins with a predilection for writing romantic novels.
But while workplace sexual harassment is very real, Browne says there is also a predilection for women to equate hostility as harassment.
It could essentially create a visual representation, or heat map, of the fighting predilection of a boxer and his performance in a particular fight.
"Independence Day" was finished in record time for a director with an almost obsessive attention to detail and a predilection for lavish, time-consuming special effects.
But Mrs Shephard sounded much more impatient about the predilection of insiders to conduct their feuds in public, and she said that such activities would have to stop.
France, you might say, has elements of both American and Chinese political cultures: it is a democracy with a strong, centralised administration and a predilection for state planning.
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Steve Forbes asked Morgan about his predilection toward that class.
There is a national predilection of boomers to demand midlife happiness, even if it means they chuck a good portion of the first part of their sort-of eternally vowed adulthood.
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We expect the average number of visitors per restaurant to rise by 2% in the long run as more and more Americans show a predilection to eating natural and organic food.
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Until the facts are known, the impression left is of a liberal-minded cabinet that has ditched one of its number because of a private predilection with no bearing on his public job.
What the three men have in common is not a predilection to being doves but a belief that force should be employed only when absolutely essential and that war must be a tool of last resort.
BET, treasured by some as the only channel devoted to black entertainment, is trashed by others for a lack of social conscience, a surfeit of crude comedy and a predilection for music videos rife with flashy cars, quivering cleavage and gyrating hips.
The United States Supreme Court showed its bias toward academic degrees, and its predilection to undervalue the dictates of experience on the streets, when it unanimously ruled in mid-February that it did not matter that a drug-sniffing dog might perform abysmally in the field.
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This worrisome predilection has only been whetted by the failure at Copenhagen, and we can anticipate far more activity in 2010 and beyond, not only on climate change but in a host of areas traditionally considered "domestic" policy (such as abortion, firearms control and the death penalty).
The longest-serving Republican House Speaker in history, Hastert suffered back-to-back blows, first when he offered a less than cogent response to what the leadership knew about Mark Foley's (R-FL) predilection for teenage congressional pages, and then on Election Day, when the GOP lost some 29 seats (and the majority as well).
Lest you scoff at my predilection for elementary-level reading (the book is rated for ages four to eight), I beg you to look past the pastel illustrations and sing-songy cadence of the writing and see this book for what it is: a beautiful script about parenthood, a poignant parable about life and death, a testimony to when the roles of child and parent become blurry.
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