Only government has the systematic power to thwart our natural proclivity to adapt and improve.
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Perhaps in doing so, it was counting on his well-established proclivity to yield to Chinese demands.
He was no stranger to hard work, and his innate proclivity to entrepreneurship was clear even then.
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Such statements suggest not only a proclivity to see in our actions the cause of our troubles.
Rose, whose proclivity for paid appearances and autograph signings dates to his playing days, believes he is unrivaled.
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Despite his proclivity for thumbing his nose at authority, Sachs is, in fact, a taskmaster in the studio.
For ancient Greeks there was no contradiction between youthful homoeroticism and predominantly or wholly heterosexual adult proclivity and activity.
Whitmore puts them at the top of her list for their proclivity to rolling around the plate and often hard-to-pierce skin.
Cambara has had the proclivity to keep a safe, polite distance, the better to avoid Zaak's bad breath, diagnosed as chronic gingivitis.
Are you suggesting that the former president's reflection expresses that same mental proclivity suffered by men whom the French mistake for philosophers?
Entrepreneurs should also proactively address the pattern-matching proclivity of particular investors.
The idea that Citigroup or HSBC or Lehman Brothers will hear about this social justice agenda, and show any proclivity toward fulfillment of it, is preposterous.
But given the Japanese proclivity for sweets, Bell tried to reengineer the recipe his family's been using for 50 years, adding chocolate chips, apple-cinnamon and blueberry flavorings.
One step in this process is identifying a strategy for conducting your life that is based on your proclivity to either connect the dots or paint by numbers.
In spite of our proclivity for pleasure over planning, there are those of us who tend to behave differently and are not heading toward our own personal fiscal cliff.
"It means more entrepreneurs and folks with a penchant and proclivity for digital arts and media sciences, " said Tucker Reed, president of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, the local development corporation.
What the Times missed, however, is the extent to which these arrangements, and their proclivity for punishing the innocent, sow terror within the rank and file of corporate employees and officers.
The effect, whether intended or not, would be to leave the country more vulnerable to attack by those who exploit our civil liberties, political correctness and proclivity not to get involved.
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In fact, it now appears that this pessimistic view has become the consensus position of those who influence policy, even such figures as George Kennan whose proclivity for "best-case" assessments of the USSR is well-established.
Steve's proclivity for responding to e-mails, and the reputation that came with that, made his inbox a prominent target for customers looking to overstep rows of supervisors to get broken computers replaced and generous credit for service outages.
Ambrus' proclivity for derring-do would serve him well over the next decade as Hungary lurched uncertainly towards capitalism--and as a working-class population turned Ambrus into a hero as he robbed more than half a million dollars during 29 bank robberies in Budapest.
The sex was provided by Cindy Gallop, a lady of a certain age who makes no bones about her proclivity for younger men, but who suggests that too much cyber-based onanism is giving them the wrong idea about what it is that women actually want.
Rather than boasting about a personal proclivity for private jets as many rappers are wont to do, he takes advantage of a lyrical opportunity to excoriate corporate America for its gas-guzzling tastes, while at the same time taking the bold stance that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein.
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One is the networking--nearly always, nearly all the time and aided by very clever Macromedia (nasdaq: MACR - news - people ) software that figures out who in the room closest matches your love of wine, your passion for rock climbing and your sexual proclivity (or whatever).
Set aside for the moment as well just what the definition of "civilized nations" might be in the infamous Clinton lexicon -- to say nothing of his self-acknowledged proclivity for "fudging" findings on things like the systematic contribution to global proliferation being made by nations "in the non-proliferation regime" like China and Russia.
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