Consultants may not fairly evaluate every manager and may be prone to favor certain managers.
Many thousands of people are thought to be prone to faints - a condition called vasovagal syncope.
Mr McCurdy said "fraud is a real possibility" and "some of it may be prone to legal action".
They were explaining to me why our open economy seems to always be prone to speculative bubbles and crashing.
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Carbon-Nomex might be prone to point-puncture, but glazed into panels in this format, a good solid smack means precisely nothing to it.
Jean-Claude Mas, 73, spent eight months in detention after his company's breast implants were revealed to be prone to rupturing.
The UCLA team found that moderate exercise alone was enough to benefit mice bred to be prone to heart disease.
In other words, they may be prone to take desperate measures.
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Policy errors are partly to blame for Japan's plight, but the awkward fact is that post-bubble economies tend to be prone to deflation.
At the same time, Price said individuals may be prone to protect their own reputations and disassociate themselves from the killer to avoid being ostracized.
Historians and geneticists argue that this inclination for deification is actually deeply embedded in the human psyche, and we have evolved to be prone to worship.
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People with all arch types -- high, medium, or low -- can be prone to this type of irritation, says Carly Robbins, a podiatric surgeon in Columbus, Ohio.
Digital Storm technicians stress-test and benchmark the system via industry standard testing software coupled with a proprietary testing process that detects components which can be prone to future failure.
Not every job we do does require a full application of our abilities but unless we apply our abilities we may be prone to problems like stress and discomfort.
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That doesn't mean booms and busts can be avoided: we're still likely to be prone to lend too much in the good times and too little when the outlook is darker.
Say you've loaded up your new Nexus 7 with the entire Transformers series of movies, as one might be prone to do, all available offline to save your precious data cap.
Hard experience suggests that such an international environment would be prone to renewed cataclysms of the kind that afflicted the planet twice in the last century, at the cost of tens of millions of lives.
Any college or university that starts to ask such questions establishes a great marketing initiative to recruiting future female students and improves the finances of alumnae who may be prone to donate more to their caring alma maters.
For me, the other striking thing that Mr Diamond said was that the eurozone would continue to be prone to "chronic event risk" in respect of the ability to finance themselves of the weaker peripheral economies - which many now see as including Italy and Spain, along with Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
Blum adds that since the CBOE is the playgorund of hedgers and speculators, its business tends to be less prone to market movements than other exchanges.
According to a new study by a team at UCLA, older brains have differing abilities to gauge troubling situations and may be less prone to screen out swindlers.
Teeth retained into old age can be more prone to decay, particularly forms that are hard to treat.
Steil finds the NYSE trading system to be archaic and prone to corruption.
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The hope is that it also will be less prone to regular blow-ups.
If a screen is bendable, it could feasibly move on impact and be less prone to breaking or cracking.
And there are some concerns that it actually dismantles some investor protections, and it might be more prone to get-rich-quick kind of schemes.
And they may be more prone to capture by protectionist lobbying.
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Secondly, although the sets still have straight jacks (instead of the 90-degree kind our pockets prefer), the thicker connection should be less prone to shorting out.
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First, any effort to have the IRS police advocacy activities of social-welfare organizations is bound to be clumsy and prone to degenerate into either selective or broad witch hunts.
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In addition, women carrying the genes, it was feared, might be more prone to side-effects such as pain, shortness of breath and fibrosis - the formation of scar-like tissue.
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