Example collocations logo

Tendency in sentence

577 examples of Tendency in a sentence

But the United Nations climate panel’s latest assessment tells us precisely the opposite: for “North America, there is medium confidence that there has been an overall slight tendency toward less dryness (wetting trend with more soil moisture and runoff).”
It could also help lessen the tendency of some governments to gravitate ever closer towards the booming Chinese economy.
The modern tendency to regard economic differences in terms of religion was stimulated by Max Weber’s reflections on the Protestant work ethic.
This same tendency is apparent in the anti-elite, anti-system rage that has erupted across Europe, reflected in the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum; the right-wing Alternative for Germany Party’s continued rise; far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen’s strong showing in the French presidential campaign; and the Austrian elections this year, where for the first time since World War II no “establishment” candidates made it to the final ballot.
Specifically, we must steel ourselves against our tendency to evade and shift responsibility.
But, having gone too far in deregulating markets, we must resist a natural tendency to overcompensate.
This time, because slow recovery has permitted only gradual normalization of interest rates, and because there appears to have been a tendency for interest rates to trend downward more generally, the Fed lacks room to react.
Yet no MFFP proposal even recognizes this tendency, much less includes provisions to avoid it.
Such accusations do not reflect reality so much as the tendency – which has intensified during the ongoing US presidential campaign – to use Obama as a scapegoat for the world’s problems.
Do these developments reveal an inherent tendency in political Islam toward majoritarianism?
For several decades, that tendency has been offset by ever more intensive trading of tradable goods, often passing through many countries in complex supply chains.
The persistent tendency to pay lip service to social sustainability, while implementing economic programs focused on unrelenting austerity, is a leading cause of political instability in Europe.
Though reform programs aimed at building viable macroeconomic frameworks remain essential, they must include strong provisions for countercyclical policies to offset the “paradox of thrift" (the tendency to save more during a recession, undermining economic growth).
Much has been written about the barterization of the Russian economy, but since August 1998 this tendency has been reversed.
Even if they eventually show a tendency to return, the equilibrium is not the same as it would have been without the intervening period.
One can think of periodic systemic risk as an inherent tendency toward reversion to the mean: short- and medium-term returns can deviate considerably and for extended periods from the expected long-run returns associated with various investment strategies and capabilities.
Another uncomfortable consequence of globalization is its tendency to put people and capital on the move.
Such a tendency is already visible in Iraq.
Their analysis found a clear tendency for austerity programs to reduce consumption expenditure and weaken the economy.
Social media exacerbates the human tendency of groupthink by filtering out opposing views.
The left has largely split between a (much weakened) moderate wing and a radical, partly anti-European tendency.
As the American economist Harold Hotelling explained in 1929, those competing for the middle have an “undue tendency … to imitate each other.”
Manufacturing industries are what I have called “escalator industries”: labor productivity in manufacturing has a tendency to converge to the frontier, even in economies where policies, institutions, and geography conspire to retard progress in other sectors of the economy.
But the tendency in recent decades – and especially since 2007 – to suppress interest rates will be reversed within the next few years, owing mainly to rising investment from the developing countries.
In fact, Europe’s post-World War II model has shown an almost congenital tendency to return to the safety of the political mainstream in hard times.
After all, as the columnist David Brooks recently observed, “If there is one soft power gift that America does possess, it is the tendency to imagine new worlds.”
This tendency prevents Africa from participating as a legitimate and coequal member of the global community.
But a Putin in one country has a tendency to produce Putin imitators elsewhere.
This tendency seemed to be at work from the mid-1980’s, as commodity producers experienced a persistent decline in prices.
The forecast errors have three potential sources: failure to recognize the time needed for economic recovery after a financial crisis; underestimation of the “fiscal multipliers” (the size of output loss owing to fiscal austerity); and neglect of the “world-trade multiplier” (the tendency for countries to drag each other down as their economies contract).
BackNext