I was a little prone to depression.

This was tedious and prone to errors.

As economists are prone to say, it depends.

She was often physically ill, however, and prone to depressions.

Firing prone (i.e., lying down) is more accurate than firing from a standing position, while a prone rifleman presents a much smaller target than a standing soldier.

And small groups are more prone to accidents and bad luck.

Tesla was asocial, and prone to seclude himself with his work.

Jack, increasingly frustrated, starts acting strangely and becomes prone to violent outbursts.

Many develop diabetes, high blood pressure, and are prone to heart attacks.

Bangladesh is among the countries most prone to natural floods, tornados and cyclones.

Kansas is prone to severe weather, especially in the spring and early summer.

Beagles may be prone to epilepsy, but this can often be controlled with medication.

What should monetary policymakers do when regulators are prone to falling down on the job?

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

Beagles are considered a chondrodystrophic breed, meaning that they are prone to types of disk diseases.

Now kindness might sound like a very mild word, and it's prone to its own abundant cliche.

In addition , the euro is a widely used international currency , which makes it more prone to counterfeiting .

Like other humans, social scientists are prone to over confidence in their preferred model of the day.

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

He often suffered from ill health and was described as easily frightened and somewhat prone to tears .

Because the measurement of a static signal is prone to noise and drift, low stiffness cantilevers (i.e.

While populists might be particularly prone to advocating facile solutions, they hardly have a monopoly on that tactic.

The project has trained 40 field monitors from the most remote and most violence prone areas around Pakistan.

Elevated levels of the lipoprotein fractions, LDL, IDL and VLDL are regarded as atherogenic (prone to cause atherosclerosis).

Their marriage turned out a disaster as both were prone to violent personality clashes and outbursts of temper.

We might just have to accept the fact that we're error prone and try to design things around it.

But it's not just the apocalyptics, as I think of them, who are prone to this kind of overstatement.

However , it also renders the financial system more prone to disturbances that may be crossborder in origin or nature .

The human physiology of vitamin B12 is complex, and therefore is prone to mishaps leading to vitamin B12 deficiency.

Prone to violent impulses, Berlioz began flooding Smithson's hotel room with love letters which both confused and terrified her.

This is only effective for small sets, however for larger sets, this would be time consuming and error prone.

Moreover , governments have been more prone to stimulate economies in cyclical downturns than to moderate their expansion in prosperous times .

Growing population, fragmentation of forests and warming climate are making the earth's surface more prone to ever larger escaped fires.

People severely deficient in molybdenum have poorly functioning sulfite oxidase and are prone to toxic reactions to sulfites in foods.

He is more up tight and practical than June (at times), and seems to be disaster prone, especially around Mr.

While people with BPD feel joy intensely, they are especially prone to dysphoria, or feelings of mental and emotional distress.

Seismology Pune lies very close to the seismically active zone around Koyna Dam, about south of the city, and has been rated in Zone 3 (on a scale of 2 to 5, with 5 being the most prone to earthquakes) by the India Meteorological Department.

If Wallach had stood up from his prone position at the wrong time, one of the jutting steps could have decapitated him.

The Cg compiler can optimize code and do lower level tasks automatically, which are hard to do and error prone in assembly.

They are prone to attribute concerns about globalization to crass protectionist motives or ignorance, even when there are genuine ethical issues at stake.

Ivan comes to us from the US Institute of Peace, where he's been researching citizen media in conflict prone parts of the globe.

Too much short term debt makes banks more prone to failure, while too much equity places little restraint on bankers capacity to destroy value.

In the hard sciences, such as mathematics and physics, the truth can be established more transparently, making these fields less prone to scientific misconduct.

For fear of empowering the protectionist barbarians, trade economists are prone to exaggerate the benefits of trade and downplay its distributional and other costs.

However, this milder, less windy climate is detrimental to the air quality in Graz as it makes the city prone to smog in winter.