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 nature of such fuel accumulations runs the gamut, including swamp drainage in Indonesia, rainforest destruction in Amazonia, self thickening woods in American wildlands as a result of fire exclusion, and everywhere the intrusion of urban sprawl and fire prone houses.

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

Sarkozy is a man prone to following his instincts.

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

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

China is also a disaster prone developing country.

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 ?

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.

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.

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.

Also, studies had shown that men who had committed acts of violence were prone to relapses.

Statistics show that male workers (3.9 ) are more prone to occupational injuries diseases compared to female workers (1.5 ).

There are no oases of prosperity in a crisis prone globalized world.

A system governed by such rules is prone to give rise to various social conflicts, and perhaps to violence.

China s economy is prone to rapid growth, with buoyant investment demand sustaining powerful short term inflationary pressures.

The eurozone is still prone to bad equilibria as long as growth on its periphery remains weak.

Babies who have lower birth weights, for example, are more prone to chronic illnesses later in life.

A volcanic field is an area of the Earth's crust that is prone to localized volcanic activity.

Accurate maps were needed, for instance, to avoid locating roads, housing and farms in disaster prone areas.

The country was also prone to natural disasters, and, despite some improvement, it faced continuing serious problems.

So which industrial structure is better for encouraging you to run? As economists are prone to say, it depends.

Disaster risk mitigation and preparedness are integral to the planning of human settlements in countries prone to natural disasters.

Despite its return to civilian control in 1976, the subway remained prone to closures due to fires, flooding, and accidents.

Whereupon an earthquake seized them , so that they lay prone in their dwellings .

Whereupon an earthquake seized them , so that they lay prone in their dwellings .

Recognizing that Mozambique is prone to natural disasters which can have a negative impact upon its development efforts,

The other school, by contrast, worried that the existing monetary system was rigid, brittle, and prone to crisis.