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Writing in the New York Review of Books , Mark Danner has argued that the administration's predilection for tough talk, coupled with its political timidity, did much to make matters worse in Bosnia.
The predilection for the flesh of Strombus gigas, the queen conch, by the white Bahamians and their relatives on the Florida Keys is cited by many etymologists in explaining the origin of the appellation Conch for a `native or inhabitant of the Florida Keys' or a `Bahamian.
This applies even to the south Indian state, Tamil Nadu, whose intolerance of our official language, Hindi, is matched evenly by its predilection for English.
The book has the breathless indulgence of a campaign biography ("Clint's lack of selfishness, his predilection for throwing scenes to other actors--partly out of generosity, partly out of a serene confidence in the force of his own presence ...
Adultery is grounds for annulment, on the theory that if a person knew that his or her spouse had a predilection toward infidelity, the marriage would not have occurred in the first place.