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Grading papers, family obligations and serious drinking left him without much inclination to write.

Your natural inclination is to look around and absorb the world, not start running and gunning.

The goal was to understand what prompts people to switch from a run to a walk or vice-versa, and determine whether our natural inclinations also correspond to the most efficient approach.

It also varies in its inclination, or the angle at which magnetic field lines intersect with the planet’s surface.

They drafted Jalen Hurts in the second round and have shown no inclination to significantly use him as a change-of-pace quarterback, which suggests they had some doubts about Wentz’s future back in April.

After all, almost everyone with the inclination to vote will show up at a polling place.

This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial.

The evil inclination is saying in this song, ‘I’m looked at as this bad guy, but you have power, you have control.

There is the inclination to respond this complaint on legal grounds.

“The inclination of the human heart is evil from youth,” the Yahwist explains.

The sailors were all in amazement, and asked me a thousand questions, which I had no inclination to answer.

Garnache bowed to the lady, who returned his greeting by an inclination of the head, and his keen eyes played briskly over her.

I desire and am endeavoring to be on my guard respecting matters which concern his inclination and not his reason.

It was as though he appeared not to know what to do; what he ought to do; his own wish or inclination having no part in it.

The Americans thereupon turned their guns upon the rebels, who showed an inclination to fight.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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