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    propensity


    1. And the propensity to become even better


    2. I feel no propensity for suicide as a way out


    3. She had always heard tales about marshlands and their propensity for housing treachery and foul creatures of darkest imagination


    4. The annals of our human history have shown that for a very long time, people had a great propensity towards domination and war, where survival of the fittest was the way of life


    5. ), and his propensity to hold grudges


    6. My propensity to see the larger picture and innovate came to the fore when I proposed:


    7. Sometimes, the human mind has the propensity to eschew the really important stuff that pass through it, oblivious to the larger picture, indifferent to what’s going on beyond it’s comfort zone


    8. He should have personally eradicated the lot of them, a long time before they developed the propensity to spread their mewling half-truths and insidious propaganda


    9. ” He was familiar enough with the propensity of powerful families to forge bonds, and make political alliances through marriage


    10. “Hah! That would be a little premature, considering Brendan’s propensity for getting in trouble,” Sim replied

    11. The human propensity to wage war comes from acting upon such primitive emotions


    12. I was more concerned with bugs than bombs, considering Koflanovich’s propensity for paranoia and sudden need for my endorsement


    13. Pilot knew all too well that he Jews had a propensity to riot, and had rioted before


    14. I found that a rather disgusting propensity throughout Europa, but usually it would only be a few


    15. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother


    16. Alluding to Obama’s early childhood, his long affinity with a radical anti-American church, his favorable view of the Muslim Brotherhood, and his now happy propensity to feature his middle name, Hussein, forbidden during his campaign for office, Frank Gaffney offers a “stunning conclusion” that he sees as “increasingly plausible


    17. humans have a propensity to be fearful


    18. Characterization of the Products of the Clay Mineral Thermal Reactions during Pulverization Coal Combustion in Order to Study the Coal Slagging Propensity


    19. natural propensity to grow into the role that is put before them


    20. " "What kinds of luxury sir" I asked "are hurtful?" "Every act of a man which he performs with pleasure" he replied "is an act of luxury; for the sharp-tempered man when gratifying his tendency indulges in luxury; and the adulterer and the drunkard and the back-biter and the liar and the covetous man and the thief and he who does things like these gratifies his peculiar propensity and in so doing indulges in luxury

    21. trauma, people with a propensity for this type of migraine are


    22. Nonetheless, the problem of the development of wealth in a democracy is the propensity for those in political office to get their authority status by promising to redistribute a percentage of the tax-skimmed-off wealth as “entitlements


    23. I adopted the attitude of the ―Show Me State‖ and took everything he told me with a grain of salt mindful of the fact that his propensity to spin yarns and play games with the screws and the man enabled his appointment with the executioner


    24. The main advantages of TRIX over other indicators which are considered trend following is its exceptional filtration of the market noise and its propensity to be a leading indicator rather than a lagging indicator


    25. Atoms and molecules have the same propensity, and we call it valence


    26. Notice though that higher stages entail higher understanding thus lessening a propensity for war


    27. confidence is also measured as an important indicator of the propensity of consumers who have discretionary income to switch from saving to buying


    28. It’s a survey of households that is designed to gauge direct the individual propensity for spending money to increase or to maintain on the same level their expenditures


    29. Of course, Mama also said that Derek’s propensity for silence and contemplation could only help him in the long run, since it meant that he thought before he spoke and never made decisions rashly, as Dana was wont to do


    30. powerful of this world, we choose rather to have Christ as the Lord of our life, and life receives a new propensity and duration

    31. “Is it not the propensity of man to compare himself in arthic terms with others for his self-worthiness or otherwise? That is since the social niceties preclude one from making kama the measure of him or her? Well, culture would have us confine the nuances of romance to the precincts of the bedrooms


    32. development of a greater propensity for relatedness in the female child is based upon


    33. Marti‘s propensity for lubricity gradually gave way to spiteful maliciousness and Can was left seeking female favors elsewhere; there was no sweet talking the domineering Marti Alice Martin, so Can‘s tomcatting was soon of legendary excess and Marti‘s presence at home a convenience effecting the appearance of a solid rural American marriage


    34. He had seen the half-breed drunk many times and knew the man‘s propensity for John Barlycorn but this episode had a different echo


    35. While all that is intriguing, what is most interesting is what happens when the three games are viewed together keeping in mind their respective markets and Captain Solomon’s known propensity for not showing all his cards


    36. This had been primarily due to his propensity for illusion


    37. Avi’s propensity for sudden violence did not encourage asking her tough questions


    38. The propensity to purchase curve from Appendix 1 section 8 shows a total consumed of about 6


    39. The propensity to spend the income dollar will vary with class of purchaser


    40. 39 propensity to spend (Appendix, sect 8), while the 0-90% income people have a

    41. 87 propensity to spend


    42. If you multiply the wages earned by the propensity it tells you, on the average, the expenditure for that group on goods and services


    43. 87 propensity and 20% wages created half again the goods and services bought by wages it created with a 3


    44. For the 30 30 30 10 split and unity propensity to spend the new model looks like this


    45. Note that taxes behave like propensity to spend


    46. The tax rate does show up in the created wages in the market but the original buyer helps to determine the overall efficiency of his transaction through his tax rate and propensity to spend


    47. Because of the higher propensity to spend it is wiser in an economy to fuel the low end


    48. The Propensity to Consume


    49. The Propensity to Consume Below is a graph that I’ve developed intuitively to connect the dots between the heavy consumers (who spend all they get) and the very rich (who might spend 10% of what they get)


    50. Here’s the results when propensity to spend in injected in the path, separately for the top 10% (rich) of the nation and the bottom 90% with their respective earnings and expenditures to give real meaning to the results














































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    Synonyms for "propensity"

    aptness propensity leaning proclivity tendency ability capacity competence partiality bent penchant bias predilection disposition

    "propensity" definitions

    an inclination to do something


    a natural inclination


    a disposition to behave in a certain way