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Disinclined


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Disincline

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Findings demonstrated that feelings of self-confidence, an easy-going disposition, a disinclination to use avoidance coping, and the availability of family support operate jointly to protect individuals from negative psychological consequences of life stress.
  • (2) It will take a significant deterioration in the economic picture for me to be disinclined to move ahead.” #BlackLivesMatter and so should the high unemployment rate Read more “Any Fed tightening cycle when it does occur is likely to be very modest.
  • (3) I don’t think that the only way you can have a good and constructive relationship with China is by behaving in that sort of craven way.” Patten, who is now chancellor of the University of Oxford, said Britain’s “increasing disinclination” to inject principles into its foreign policy was enabling the ever-more repressive and aggressive policies coming out of Beijing.
  • (4) High scale scores describe fearful, emotionally labile individuals who profess to be more sensitive than others and unable or disinclined to persist in the face of difficulty.
  • (5) Regrettably, no doubt, for those who are keener on the purification of public discourse, online censors seem disinclined to regulate with any consistency.
  • (6) Disinclination among the parents was the main reason for absenteeism and could be related to ignorance about the clinic.
  • (7) We have not had the sort of bad experience that they had in parts of Germany or in eastern Europe with intelligence services and, for that reason, I think people are disinclined to believe that those who have those responsibilities are misusing them."
  • (8) The town was disinclined to cooperate with the border patrol because residents felt they were harassing them.
  • (9) Hayden, of course, became a very effective governor general, disinclined to interfere in the affairs of parliament.
  • (10) EH patients, particularly those experiencing emotional distress, appear to have patterns of self-presentation that could present an obstacle to effective communication with their physicians, and this difficulty may be amplified by physicians' disinclination to probe for emotional difficulty.
  • (11) James Acaster Pleasance Courtyard , 6-28 August You may be disinclined to gamble at the fringe, and look instead for a home banker.
  • (12) Inner-city patients are, increasingly, black and Hispanic patients, and these patients are more likely to be underinsured or uninsured, to be functionally illiterate in English, to be disinclined to seek health care, and to be less capable of following a prescribed regimen than the populace as a whole.
  • (13) In seeking to define what he calls "postliberalism" , Goodhart attacks both the economic liberalism of the 80s and New Labour's disinclination to reverse it.
  • (14) A number of those around the table shared their own personal stories of the difficulties they had faced themselves over a loved one's disinclination to eat or preference for sweet foods of no nutritional value.
  • (15) The conversation left her disinclined to bother complaining when the crew started using the prominence of her nipples through her jumper to guess the temperature outside, assuming that would be deemed "banter" too.
  • (16) Photograph: PR Bradbury, a lecturer in young people and sport at Loughborough University, interviewed dozens of current and former players for his report and found that black footballers are especially disinclined to think of coaching as a potential option for when their career winds down.
  • (17) The public will be a little weary, I think, of being taken to the ballot box twice in 12 months.” But the attorney general said he was “disinclined” to pair the same-sex marriage vote with a referendum on recognising Indigenous Australians in the constitution, which he said had an “emotional significance” for society.
  • (18) I did.” Vernon said that she was now utterly disinclined to write with honesty about her life experiences and admitted it took therapy to help her get over it.
  • (19) If Cameron is disinclined to stir this particular hornets' nest (was his own phone ever hacked, incidentally?)
  • (20) Johnson, backed by testimony from her family at trial, said she was at home with her mother and three children, disinclined to go out on Halloween.

Prone


Definition:

  • (a.) Bending forward; inclined; not erect.
  • (a.) Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine.
  • (a.) Headlong; running downward or headlong.
  • (a.) Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.
  • (a.) Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is characterized by an absence of seromucous glands in the oropharynx and tracheobronchial tree, making children with this disease prone to viral and bacterial respiratory infections.
  • (2) Moreover, the mucoid substances of the sensillum lymph are probably involved in water conservation, since sensilla are prone to water loss, because the overlying cuticle must be permeable to the chemical stimuli.
  • (3) Analysis of mice injected with helper-free P90A virus stocks demonstrates that the variants are generated during viral replication in vivo, probably as a consequence of error-prone reverse transcription.
  • (4) The effects of chronic dietary salt-loading and nifedipine therapy on hypertension-prone (SBH), -resistant (SBN) and parental (SB) Sabra rats were investigated.
  • (5) The major behavioural assessment was the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS) designed to measure the coronary-prone behaviour pattern (Type A).
  • (6) In 25 patients we evaluated the efficacy of the prone position to counter these technical difficulties and found that the prone position offers visualization superior to the supine, especially in obese and uncooperative patients and those with abundant bowel gas.
  • (7) However, nonsuppression in the dexamethasone suppression test was not specifically associated with the pain-prone disorder, which was further characterized by the factor models of the Hamilton Depression Scale.
  • (8) Advancing age was associated with a reduction in cell proliferative responses to PHA in both substrains, although the rate of decline was significantly more rapid in the senescence-prone animals.
  • (9) Surviving cells show such cancer-prone genetic consequences.
  • (10) Aneurysms enlarge rapidly when coupled with infection and are prone to rupture, thus requiring extensive surgical repair.
  • (11) Asymmetrical gait pattern with mild gait disturbance was found more often in infants lying in supine than in prone.
  • (12) Using a biopsy procedure, splenic pancreas was removed from both 65 and from 80 day old diabetes prone BB rats.
  • (13) However, DIO-prone [3H]PAC binding was only 14-39% of DR-prone levels in 9 areas including 4 amygdalar nuclei, the lateral area, dorso- and ventromedial nuclei of the hypothalamus, median eminence and medial dorsal thalamic n. Although it is unclear whether this widespread decrease in [3H]PAC binding implicates brain alpha 2-adrenoceptors in the pathophysiology of DIO, it does correlate with a phenotypic marker (increase glucose-induced NE release) which predicts the subsequent development of DIO on a high-energy diet.
  • (14) The effect of varying amounts of dietary magnesium in conjunction with potassium (K) on hypertension and stroke mortality in hypertensive stroke prone (SHRsp) rats was studied.
  • (15) The results indicate the beta-globin domain is a mosaic of aggregation-resistant and aggregation-prone regions with the latter being associated with H1 and H5.
  • (16) Under the influence of immunosuppression cutaneous hyperkeratoses more rapidly evolve into squamous-cell carcinoma, multiple skin cancers occur in some patients, and keratoacanthoma is not only more frequent but also prone to early recurrence.
  • (17) This chromosome region in T cells is unusually prone to develop breaks in vivo, perhaps reflecting instability generated by somatic rearrangement of T-cell receptor genes during normal differentiation in this cell lineage.
  • (18) These data suggest that the error-prone repair pathway participates in mutagenesis by quercetin and its metabolites.
  • (19) The City is rife with gambling addicts whose habits contribute to a risk-prone culture of the sort which helped Kweku Adoboli lose UBS £1.5bn, according to one London trader.
  • (20) The spontaneously diabetic BB rat syndrome is associated with a marked lymphopenia, which affects all members of litters of diabetes-prone rats, and may be a necessary condition for the development of the disease.