We also said that the 21st century would see shifting climate zones, creation of drought prone regions in North America and Asia, erosion of ice sheets, rising sea levels and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage.

Its financial system was unstable and prone to panics, and its political system was immature and prone to populism and nativism.

I was a little prone to depression.

They are also prone to making mistakes.

Children andinfants are particularly prone to it.

The Erosion of Law

The Erosion of Europe

Indeed, without adequate regulation, they are prone to excess.

Sarkozy is a man prone to following his instincts.

These are smaller than the original volumes due to erosion.

In short, the world has become increasingly prone to financial turbulence.

The erosion of animal spirits feeds on itself.

But they are now in danger of erosion.

On a smaller scale, we are living in communities prone to conflicts.

China is also a disaster prone developing country.

He warned against the risk of overestimating the magnitude of preference erosion for LDCs and noted that the adverse impact of erosion was being felt equally severely by several non LDCs. The most fundamental problems faced by LDCs did not directly relate to the issue of preference erosion.

seeking activities following an erosion in their export competitiveness.

Left to their own devices, markets are prone to extremes of euphoria and despair.

Man is prone to say Shall I be raised to life after I die ?

and it provides shade and protects the soil against erosion

Much of the land has been ruined by soil erosion.

(2) Combat against coastal erosion project (Ghana Togo Benin Nigeria)

Such losses could be aggravated by the erosion of preferences.

Conventional development policy has been prone to fads, moving from one big fix to another.

That help is needed, because Ethiopians are prone to malnutrition, disease, and natural calamity.

Being poor makes you prone to conflict, and being in conflict makes you poor.

The river is prone to catastrophic flooding in spring when the Himalayan snows melt.

Despite the fact that it is prone to shattering, it is very strong structurally.

Increasingly, such teams include emergency managers from disaster prone countries.

Other earthquake prone countries must take action on this matter.

Deforestation for timber and energy precipitate erosion and reduce soil fertility.

The erosion in public support for Bush s Iraq policy is stark.

A process of erosion, catalyzed by British diplomacy, was under way.

Even more worrying is the erosion of trust in democratic institutions.

Some crisis prone countries such as Latvia are already unable to sell any more debt.

He concludes, cautiously, that television is an institution where people are more prone to obey

Control In many countries around the world, waterways prone to floods are often carefully managed.

Those areas are also prone to environmental degradation and tensions between host communities and newcomers.

Democracies such as India may seem at times to move too slowly and be prone to paralysis.

Soil Soil erosion is fast becoming one of the worlds greatest problems.

The seriousness of preference erosion in a number of LDCs was recognized.

Moreover, metallic money was prone to unpredictable shifts in value with the discovery of new supplies.

And, if the BRICs slow down, they may be more prone to debt and currency crises.

For starters, the Sprague Dawley strain of rats that he used is naturally prone to tumors.

Declaratively, young people are more prone to division of duties in the household on equal footage.