In a money obsessed society, the only way to restrain this proclivity is by externally imposed sanctions.

When men contract the disease through sexual intercourse, their proclivity for multiple partners is assumed to be the norm.

Still, no economic crisis or political revolution is likely to change governments inherent proclivity to think that they can know better.

The proclivity of some elsewhere to react violently to what they consider blasphemous cannot be the criterion for imposing limits on free expression in the US, the United Kingdom, Denmark, or the Netherlands (or anywhere else).

It was easy to draw an analogy between ineffective and mundane performance in the stadium and the general state of the country. At the time, Germany was regarded as the sick man of Europe, with a proclivity for highly protected labor markets.

Because Spain and France defaulted so much in the early modern period, and because Greece, from the moment of its political birth in 1830, was a chronic or serial defaulter, some assume that national temperament somehow imbues countries with a proclivity to default.