There are certain inborn tendencies, and some acquired ones, that enable a person to become a wizard.

He asserted some have "...an inborn tendency, constitutionally recreant to the codes of civilization, and therefore technically criminal."

Temperament factors refer to a certain behavioral style that is an inborn tendency but also highly influenced by the environment the child grows and lives in.

Reification may derive from an inborn tendency to simplify experience by assuming constancy as much as possible.

Suppose you had an inborn tendency towards heart disease, could you prevent the onset through adopting a particular attitude of mind?

On the other hand, some readers interpret the stutter symbolically, and say it represents original sin, the inborn tendency to evil in our nature.

Xunzi believed man's inborn tendencies need to be curbed through education and ritual, counter to Mencius's view that man is innately good.

There's a certain inborn tendency toward peeling as an adaptive thing, stemming from the genetic makeup that's the impetus to pick and clean and groom.

Carmen and Juni are officially unaware of their parents' prior calling, but their inborn spylike tendencies make them pariahs at school.

Reviewing the Opinion "To invite someone to prove that he or she does not have an inborn tendency seems like a hollow offer," the judge said.