predisposed

Rather, all of the evidence points to the fact that he was predisposed to commit this crime.

It's not at all convincing to me--someone who's predisposed to support very high levels of access to birth control, for everyone--and is certainly not convincing to anyone who's predisposed to oppose it.

People are generally predisposed to think that the stuff they're working on is a good thing.

After all, germans are not genetically predisposed to fascism, any more than americans are.

Distance running is quite tame in comparison, even if one is predisposed to fainting.

Anyone with a family history of certain ailments or genetically predisposed should be sterilized.

What it actually does is appeal to people who are already predisposed to heterodoxy.

Bottom line: Already predisposed to doing the crime and probably would have gone through with it if it hadn't been the police?

The piece does a petitio principii in assuming that squirrels and badgers are both naturally predisposed as species to perform the same tasks.

Arguably, the biggest thing here is that decision - you've subscribed to this person's taste and you are predisposed towards justifying that decision.

A recent study found that those with blue eyes are predisposed to alcoholism.

And guess who is predisposed to teach skills necessary in industry?

Yes: People can be predisposed to "getting" lisp, but I doubt it is a genetic thing.

It's interesting to note that even if one of these overdose victims had health problems that predisposed them to overdose mortality --- something that is pretty far from being established --- there is actually a legal rule that contemplates this circumstance directly: google "the eggshell skull rule".

For example, if I begin a comment with the statement: “This is going to bring the Men’s Rights Activist sea lions out of the woodwork, but...” What I am doing is appealing to people who are already predisposed to dislike the MRA movement and its adherents.

I agree, although I think he sort of predisposed me to this attitude right off the bat with the desperate-seeming link to google results that are supposed to prove people called them an "itunes killer" (note: I could not find a single instance of anyone referring to them as an "itunes killer" in any of those results).