प्रवृत्ति (en. Predilection)

It may be that there is something in that psychological trap that drives us to have a predilection for those relationships that are more complicated.

The Corps does say that it will continue to operate the Old River Control Structure, holding back the Mississippi’s predilection to move west, so long as Congress continues to appropriate the necessary funds to maintain and upgrade the structure.

Yet, as one ALS clinician tells me, Just from anecdotal experience, I think any physician dealing with ALS will tell you that there is some eerie predilection among young men who are physically fit to get this disease.

The judiciary is peopled by judges who are human, and being human they are occasionally motivated by consideration other than an objective view of law and justice, It would be foolhardy to contend that none of them, at least some of them, at least some times are motivated by considerations of their own personal ideology, affiliations, predilection, biases and indeed even by nepotistic and corrupt considerations.

Werewolf legends spread all over Europe and Asia with all the various myths sharing two common threads: werewolves were inherently evil and they had a predilection for human flesh.

In 1683, Thomas Sydenham, an English physician, described its occurrence in the early hours of the morning and its predilection for older males.

The first six months of Caligula’s reign were positive, but a serious illness left him altered and possibly mad with a predilection for violence and paranoia.