As far as DNA testing, we're just at the beginning of that universe. Pretty soon, though, we'll know whether someone is predisposed to cancer, alcoholism, obesity, baldness and who knows what else.
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Obesity may also play a role in the disease. No one is really sure, ... In the West, body mass index is increasing, and it's thought that by becoming obese, people are more predisposed to getting heartburn.
They have people who are predisposed to criminal activity. They take them to the nicest neighborhoods they can find and drop them off unsupervised. A lot of times their motives are not to sell magazines.
It's a lot of information to go through, but what the employees understand is that someone with one type of compulsive behavior may be predisposed to other addictive problems. Over time, in working with Harvard, we hope to understand what sort of programs and treatments work.
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
By God's grace and his spirit and power, ... there is a way to live a life that is not as a homosexual. If I was born predisposed to kill or lie or embezzle, I have the obligation to myself to overcome that, because it's not in the interest of the common good.
This committee still seems predisposed to raising rates a bit more, and the burden is on the data to tell them otherwise.
This says individuals might be genetically predisposed to more than one type of cancer. That tells us that there is a common pathway for these cancers.
We don't want people to assume that athletes on team sports are going to be more predisposed to a certain way of looking at life than those that aren't on team sports.
Oil is at new highs and then you get a number like this at a time when the market was predisposed to concerns about softness in the economy. We still expect a weaker dollar. The dollar bear story is coming into focus.
Some folks would say that's crass or calculating or opportunistic, but that's how businesses think these donations are an investment in a company's future. How a business conducts itself in the region today will leave an indelible mark on that business's reputation. And given the choice, consumers will be predisposed to do business with companies that have good reputations.
NASA does a great job of communicating with people who are already predisposed to support portions of the agency's programs. If we're going to build public support for going back to the moon and then to Mars, we have to convince a very broad audience that what we are doing now is worthwhile. Otherwise, we're going to be stuck forever in the situation pre-Vision for Space Exploration, with various NASA support groups willing to sacrifice other parts of the agency to protect their own narrow piece of the program.
I have no predisposed position on who he is as a coach, what type of basketball he should play. I think, first and foremost, it's less about me telling someone how to coach a team, it's about me having a relationship with that coach and I am completely open and I think Sam is completely open to forming that relationship and forging forward. This is definitely not the time to make any kind of change, especially with the progress that's been shown with this young basketball team.
My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.