predisposed

How To Use predisposed In A Sentence

• His lifestyle predisposed him to high blood pressure.
• Dogs bred to have exaggerated angulation in the hindquarters, extreme pelvic slope, or are poorly muscled, poorly angulated, and narrow in the hips seem more predisposed.
• Is it not obvious that one of the reasons that an ethnic group might do less well in academics is that they are genetically predisposed to lower “intelligence” level, as measured by those academics (regardless of which ethnic group you’re talking about)? The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
• This is not surprising because females were virgins and may have been predisposed to accept any mate because they required sperm.
• All three agreed that it is difficult to lead the masses anywhere - unless they are predisposed to head in that direction anyways.
• The researchers cautioned that the study only predicts the likelihood that a child will be predisposed to physical prowess.
• If a bed-ridden meteorologist is told that it rains, he may or he may not receive the fact from the force of testimony; but he will certainly be more prëdisposed to receive it, if he finds that his weatherglass is falling rather than rising. Probabilities : An aid to Faith
• For the vast majority of people - genetically predisposed, virally infected or not - a simple equation still applies. Times, Sunday Times
• _ -- Horses knuckling at the fetlock, and all those with diseases which impair the powers of locomotion, such as navicular disease, contracted heels, sidebones, chronic laminitis, etc., are predisposed to sprains of the fetlock. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• A PR job is fraught with potential pitfalls and catastrophes that are predisposed to causing bad news, he cautions, and lists the sources of disasters.