| Fortunately, irrespective of my personal predilections, secularism in India is unlikely to flourish, at least in the near future. |
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| If they work as a team burying their individual predilections and preferences there is no reason why the team cannot get back its rhythm. |
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| The Court's reasonings, such as they are, have become a study in personal opinions and predilections. |
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| But when you get right down to it, there are personal predilections when it comes to the purchase of any product. |
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| During his lifetime, his visits to mediums, holdings of seances, and hosts of other supernatural predilections remained guarded secrets. |
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| It is essentially simple, but with enough internal twists and turns to accommodate most predilections and appetites. |
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| Like every other institution, the Washington and political press corps operate with a good number of biases and predilections. |
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| Addressing this problem is no easy matter, not because of its global dimensions and its Sisyphean predilections, but because there is no catch-all solution. |
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| Women have suffered in the podiatric department from foot-binding onwards thanks largely to the perverse predilections of men. |
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| These topics of predilections are atmospheric themes frays with instruments rock'n'roll in binary rhythms or into metric odd. |
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| But on the finer points of climate-change policy, the candidates reflect the predilections of their parties. |
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| For these very reasons, when touching the past we subconsciously assume predilections through which we project our personal nature. |
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| If their predilections and views differ, their remoteness is proportionate to the difference between their predilections and views. |
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| In our world, if two people love and hate the same thing, meaning their predilections coincide, we say that they are close to one another. |
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| Would judges' past writings, speeches, judgments, etc. be scrutinized to detect evidence of certain kinds of unacceptable predilections? |
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| Combining her predilections for Science and Communication, she completed her MSc in Science Communication with distinction. |
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| We have tried to consider various predilections, having collected a wide spectrum of luxury watch models in our collection. |
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| In the CD, States are represented and the personal predilections, if any, of a diplomat will not override State policies. |
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| It may involve rationing the TV or otherwise constraining childrens own media predilections. |
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| It also provided a window on the long-standing predilections of a generation or three of trustees who got goose-bumps when anything English strayed into their path. |
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| All of her fictions are heavily influenced by scholarship and by the predilections of the cultivated English intellectual and academic class of which she is a part. |
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| She seemed completely up to the interview, however, so there was no reason not to ask at least one tough question, most obviously, about her political predilections. |
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| The rejoinder, of course, is that while we all have our individual estimations of the skills and predilections of each enforcement level, none has a monopoly on virtue. |
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| But then Captain Kirk kicks in and they interpret these through a prism of personal experience, with its predilections, prejudices, doubts, and fears. That is equally true of politics and public opinion. |
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| However, there also needs to be a new kind of thinking on the part of government, the kind of thinking that appears contrary to the ideological predilections of the Conservative government. |
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| Does a spirit who has had a special occupation upon the earth, as a painter or an architect, for example, take a special interest in the labours 'which have formed the object of his predilections during the earthly life? |
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| These are two predilections we both share. |
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| Only if that is achieved will there exist the real possibility to freely choose one's own life project with respect to loves and predilections, attitudes to gainful employment, to the consumption of illegal substances etc. |
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| The idea that one must rid oneself of presuppositions, prejudices, and predilections in order to do justice to the subject matter he characterizes as 'monastic rules' i.e. an excessive asceticism and abstinence. |
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| Though his predilections for narcotics and general shenanigans would make him a liability in the high-stakes world of haute couture, his pouty good looks might be worth the risk. |
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| That means the person would need to set aside any biases, predilections or predispositions he or she had, and not put them to work in making the assessment. |
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| It is a very slow business indeed to change such basic predilections of human existence, usually requiring whole generations to be brought up differently than their parents. |
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| Every judge knows, and every reasonably informed person not a judge who approaches the issue objectively ought to know, that like every other member of the human species all judges have certain predilections. |
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| Suffice it to say that many political predilections these days are driven from somewhere deeper in the subcortex. |
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| The ENP's comprehensive approach also ensures that EU policy does not depend on the regional and national predilections of each country to hold the presidency. |
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| The great variousness and plurality of goodness bas given comfort to general skepticism about values and a multitude of metaethical attitudes or predilections. |
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