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is and prone
He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.
he is prone to semi-catatonic trances induced by the playing of the vioiln ; ;
And a minister of all men is most conscious that he is mere man -- prone to the stresses that earthly humanity is heir to.
She is even prone to regard the college girl as immature.
This algorithm is much less prone to loss of precision due to massive cancellation, but might not be as efficient because of the division operation inside the loop.
Academic elitism is the criticism that academia or academicians are prone to elitism, or that certain experts or intellectuals propose ideas based more on support from academic colleagues than on real world experience.
Proponents of the adversarial system often argue that the system is more fair and less prone to abuse than the inquisitional approach, because it allows less room for the state to be biased against the defendant.
He is the more excitable of the two ; despite his obliviousness to what should be obvious, he is prone to moments of insight.
Long-term use is controversial due to concerns about adverse psychological and physical effects, increased questioning of effectiveness and because benzodiazepines are prone to cause tolerance, physical dependence, and, upon cessation of use after long term use, a withdrawal syndrome.
Vitamin C is especially prone to oxidation during cooking and may be completely destroyed by protracted cooking.
The remainder of the country is prone to flooding from nearby rivers.
Casuistry is prone to abuses wherever the analogies between cases are false.
One of the stars is a flare star, which are prone to sudden, random outbursts that last several minutes ; these increase the pair's apparent brightness significantly-as high as magnitude 7.
Practically, such a matrix is almost singular, and the computation of its inverse, or solution of a linear system of equations is prone to large numerical errors.
Bronze has several characteristics that made it preferable as a construction material: although it is relatively expensive, does not always alloy well, and can result in a final product that is " spongy about the bore ", bronze is more flexible than iron and therefore less prone to bursting when exposed to high pressure ; cast iron cannon are less expensive and more durable generally than bronze and withstand being fired more times without deteriorating.
It is quite prone to considerable reduction and assimilation of both consonants and vowels even in very formal standard language.
As with every software system, a DBMS that operates in a faulty computing environment is prone to failures of many kinds.
As with every software system, a DBMS that operates in a faulty computing environment is prone to failures of many kinds.
Since dachshunds are prone to back issues, the goal is to expand this treatment to dogs in a normal population.

is and illness
There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.
Wheelchairs are used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness ( physiological or physical ), injury, or disability.
Anxiety is the most common mental illness in America as approximately 40 million adults are affected by it.
An acute monophasic illness, EAE is far more similar to ADEM than MS.
Dr. Rieux consults his colleague, Castel, about the illness until they come to the conclusion that a plague is sweeping the town.
His illness is not consistent with the symptoms of the plague, and the inexplicable nature of the illness leads Rieux to diagnose him as a " doubtful case ".
This is to emphasize that the sacrament is available, and recommended, to all those suffering from any serious illness, and to dispel the common misconception that it is exclusively for those at or very near the point of death.
Canon law permits its administration to any Catholic who has reached the age of reason and is beginning to be put in danger by illness or old age, unless the person in question obstinately persists in a manifestly grave sin.
However, the reception of the Mystery is not limited to those who are enduring physical illness.
It is referred to as a zoonotic arbovirus and causes febrile illness, characterized by the onset of a sudden fever known as Oropouche fever.
It is medically considered a disease, specifically an addictive illness, and in psychiatry several other terms are used, specifically " alcohol abuse " and " alcohol dependence ," which have slightly different definitions.
In the Pāli canon, the bodhisatta is also described as someone who is still subject to birth, illness, death, sorrow, defilement, and delusion.
* Nebuchadnezzar's illness occurs in Babylon ; Nabonidus is stricken in Tema.
The concept of the bipolar spectrum is similar to that of Emil Kraepelin's original concept of manic depressive illness.
Currently, manic depressive illness is usually referred to as bipolar disorder or simply bipolar.
No one method is universally successful and most persons suffering from the illness need several forms of support.
It is a sub-diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and conforms to the classic concept of manic-depressive illness.
" It cannot be done " and he adds: " If a patient places himself in autohypnosis and regresses himself in an effort to reach illness or birth or prenatals, the only thing he will get is ill ".
The term disorder is often considered more value-neutral and less stigmatizing than the terms disease or illness, and therefore is preferred terminology in some circumstances.
While the term medical condition generally includes mental illnesses, in some contexts the term is used specifically to denote any illness, injury, or disease except for mental illnesses.

is and frequently
He catches criminals not merely because he is paid to do so ( frequently he does not receive a fee at all ), but because he enjoys his work, because he firmly believes that murder must be punished.
This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.
It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.
We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.
Traditional crewel embroidery which seems to be appearing more frequently this fall than in the past few years is still available in this country.
One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.
These problems frequently arise where a firm is making items for the Government not directly along the lines of its normal civilian business or where the Government specifications require operations that the firm did not understand when it undertook the contract.
For he knows that the first and sometimes most difficult job is to know what the question is -- that when it is accurately identified it sometimes answers itself, and that the way in which it is posed frequently shapes the answer.
He is appreciative of the expert help available to him and draws these resources into play, taking care to examine at least some of the raw material which underlies their frequently policy-oriented conclusions.
A president is frequently besieged to serve in non-academic civic and governmental capacities, to make speeches to lay groups, and to make numerous ceremonial appearances on and off campus.
Towards the end of an intermediate or major rise, while the top is forming on the price chart, it is frequently observed that the odd-lot buying increases sharply.
The simplest division, and the one most frequently used ( with subdivisions ) in gas and electric rate cases, is a threefold division of the total operating and capital costs into `` customer costs '', `` energy '' or `` volumetric costs '', and `` demand '' or `` capacity '' costs.
) An authentic diffraction pattern is always obtained and optical properties are frequently checked.
The second step is to recognize the substantial agreement -- frequently blurred by emotionalism and inaccurate newspaper reporting -- already existing between Catholics and Non-Catholics concerning the over-all objectives of family planning.
Mary is cheery and gay when her husband comes home in the evenings, and the children's bed-time is frequently preceeded by a session of happy, family rough-housing.
Indeed, it is in the field of transportation that Congress has most frequently granted employers exemption from the anti-trust laws ; ;
One frequently has the feeling that the order of their movement combinations could be transposed without notable loss of effect, there is too little suggestion of organic relationship and development.
His normal specialty is playing the good-natured old man, frequently stupid or deluded but never mean or sly.

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