The French have always had a penchant for partially state-owned firms.
He also had a penchant for biographical parts, winning an Oscar for "The Story of Louis Pasteur" (1936).
The FSF has a penchant for puns, and this one seemed appropriate, I suppose. The name predates my involvement.
That included one executive's penchant for tango. His own wife wasn't interested in lessons, so he dragged his administrative assistant to lessons.
I found out she had a penchant for French literature, and, in fact, could toss around the works of Sartre and Camus and Baudelaire with astonishing ease.
Despite a penchant for hanging out in trees, human ancestors living 3.6 million years ago in what's now Tanzania extended their legs to stride much like people today do, a new study finds.
Most emerging countries have a penchant for highly diversified conglomerates.
He says that Imelda "had a penchant for luxury and opulence.
He was a wiry, red-haired man with piercing blue eyes and a penchant for grandiose schemes.
As for Mao Weitao, even before she knew anything about Shaoxing Opera, the child had a strong penchant for acting, especially male characters.
Reason for fear: Bush's Western attire and penchant forclearing brush on his Texas ranch helped him cultivate a Reaganesque cowboy image.
He also displays a penchant for angular harmonies and intricate melodies reminiscent of Bach (Sondheim has claimed that he "loves Bach" but his favorite period is Brahms to Stravinsky). [6].
For Barack Obama's detractors, the incident perfectly captured the new President's penchant for style over substance.
Combine this with c's penchant for short, cryptic variable names, and you have a recipe for disaster.
For more abstract statements that are further removed from the physical world, he points to the structure of our brains and our penchant for logic.
Mr Chavez's penchant for nationalisation as a presumed panacea for the evils of the private sector is seen by many specialists as part of the problem, rather than the solution.
He had a penchant for playing jokes on people.
Given his penchant for fast motorbikes (he owns a Kawasaki), Valentino Rossi may have been more apt.
"He definitely needs services," the psychologist, a red-faced man with round glasses and a penchant for mumbling in jargon, decided. "We just don't know what."
The brain also has a penchant for symmetry.
Some fresh- men complain about his penchant for making commitments that he then may abandon with little notice.
Despite the cutthroat nature of the Indian media and its penchant for the sensational, the press has behaved as if it were in an older era. It is refreshing.
It's up to you to discover what her ears have a penchant for.
Whatever sense of self that may surround these objects is not inherent in them, and is instead simply the result of one's own penchant for "I-making" and "my-making.
With their worldly sophistication, cheap fisherman pants and penchant for being smiley all the time, tourists can be a much-hated group.
When Homo sapiens evolved on the African Savannah, the ones with a penchant for trying new horizons prospered.
Moreover, barras bravas (hooligans), whose penchant for vandalism and violence has discouraged law-abiding fans from attending matches, can be jailed for up to ten years for using explosives.
Young Indians have a penchant for browsing marriage sites in search of a good match.
He often worried Frances (his adoptive mother) with his penchant for trance-like daydreams.
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