personal inclination

collocation in English

meaningsofpersonalandinclination

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personal
adjective
uk
/ˈpɜː.sən.əl/us
/ˈpɝː.sən.əl/
relating or belonging to a single or particular person rather than to a group or ...
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inclination
noun
uk
/ˌɪn.klɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɪn.kləˈneɪ.ʃən/
a feeling that you want to do a particular thing, or the fact that you prefer or are more likely to do a ...
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(Definition ofpersonalandinclinationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Family care may of course also be motivated bypersonalinclinationor attraction.
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Mypersonalinclinationis to see it kept out.
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The treatment in the camps differed widely and depended in many cases on thepersonalinclinationof individual commandants.
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My ownpersonalinclinationis to lean towards the conclusions of this report under all three heads.
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Mypersonalinclinationis for the status quo.
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I have owned to apersonalinclinationto regard the arguments for some relief at a practicable time as meriting very serious consideration.
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Duty comes into this as well aspersonalinclination—perhaps more so.
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My political leanings andpersonalinclinationare against such compulsory measures.
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Mypersonalinclinationis that relying on the general merger regime and competition considerations should be sufficient.
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Mypersonalinclinationis towards setting up machinery to give all children who contemplate leaving school much longer contact with the juvenile employment committees than they have.
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To my mind it is the most scientific way of voting for your ownpersonalinclinationif one is a polling clerk and using other people's votes for that purpose.
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We know that this must be so from reflecting on the disinterestedness of our pleasure, on its entire independence ofpersonalinclination.
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Reasons for this are cited to be financial stringency andpersonalinclinationon the part of the emperor, and a petition by the "ulema".
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For various reasons, however, poverty andpersonalinclinationamong others, he did not take a prominent part in the military operations of this period.
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The personal inclinations, skills and motivations of each member of the group made it possible to organise the remaining practical phases necessary for the completion of the project.
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Dixon could not sit above this system, whatever his personal inclinations.
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One is not dealing here with his personal inclinations or prejudices.
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They need easy access to transport to enable them to supply many of their own wants and to pursue their personal inclinations.
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Responsibility, or a sense of responsibility, to those who are governed cannot be left to the whims and personal inclinations of those who are given power over their fellow men.
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