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When from a family systems point of view, they are exposed to dynamics that will predispose them to have inherited the family problems that have affected generations before them.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2018

In return, "the young woman of that day will refuse him because he has inherited a gene from his father which will predispose their children to quarrelsomeness".

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2014

But if the legislator would persuade as well as command, he will add prefaces to his laws which will predispose the citizens to virtue.

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin

If the primary accentuation be given through a finger reaction, the fixating of that specific form of change will predispose toward an overlooking of secondary emphases depending on minor motor reactions of a different sort.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo

He tortures his imagination for something which will predispose the reader in its favour.

From Literary Blunders by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin