Tendency in sentence

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WP: There's a tendency in our culture to see when people have been convicted of a crime, no matter if that charge was bogus or legitimate, that whatever happens to them after that is warranted.

And, in general, African countries are extremely welcoming of refugees coming, and I would say that in the Middle East and in Asia, we have seen a tendency for borders to be open.

Each step has seen a revolution of sorts and a tendency for civilization to reach into its past to reshape its present.

Humans have a tendency to assume that the safest option is to preserve the status quo.

I have a tendency not to be.

I said, "Well Michael does have a tendency at times of behaving in a way that some of us might see as perhaps more assertive than is normally called for."

Psychopathy is a developmental disorder with strongly genetic origins, and it results in a personality that's cold and uncaring and a tendency to engage in antisocial and sometimes very violent behavior.

Worrying, too, is the tendency for some reactions to injustice to build even more walls, being quick to point fingers with the hope of providing easy solutions to complex problems.

So we have many ongoing tendencies right now, and I think one of the chief among them is this tendency to make things smarter and smarter.

It's a tendency to only be able to think of an object in terms of its traditional use or function.

And I think we have a tendency to not be clear about this, to try to move our inner truths to outer truths, or to not be fair about it to each other, and when people are telling us their inner truths, to try to make them defend them by outer-truth standards.

When times are difficult, when you're short of money, when you're feeling insecure and vulnerable, it's almost a natural human tendency to turn inwards, to think of your own needs and to discard everybody else's, and perhaps to start to imagine that the past was somehow better than the present or the future could ever be.

But the moment you present a new idea, there's this weird tendency to reply to every new idea starting with two words.

This tendency to look down on our own products and to see crops like fonio as simply "country peoples' food," therefore substandard, explains why even though we don't produce wheat in Senegal traditionally, it is far easier to find baguettes or croissants in the streets of Dakar than it is to find any fonio products.

I have a tendency to assume the worst, and once in a while, this habit plays tricks on me.

And like any monopoly, there's a tendency for cost to go up and quality to go down.

And when you live in a free country, there's this tendency of assuming that those who are oppressed tolerate their oppression or are comfortable with it, and democracy is projected as a progressive form of governance in such a way that those people who don't live under democratic countries are seen as people who are not intellectually or maybe morally as advanced as others.

Inertia is the tendency of fluids to keep moving, which causes instability.

You have to have that level of freedom, and so I'm often asked that, you know, is there a, kind of, utopian or, is there a utopian tendency to Second Life and things like it, that you would create a world that has a grand scheme to it?

There's an unthinking tendency to imagine that humans will be there, experiencing the sun's demise, but any life and intelligence that exists then will be as different from us as we are from bacteria.

This tendency to compare to the past is causing people to pass up the better deal.

We have the tendency for people to go for 50 dollars now over waiting a month, but not if that decision is far in the future.

So, you know, when a school bus is blown up and we've never seen this before, our general tendency is to orient towards that which is new and novel is activated.

I think in general you're battling a very fundamental human tendency, which is to say, "I'm here today, and so now is more important than later."

It's a deep tendency toward order in nature that opposes what we've all been taught about entropy.

Second, all the individuals have a tendency to line up.

Scientific papers were published saying it was twitching eyelids that explained it, or, you know, a human being's tendency to see patterns where there are none.

So this tendency towards order is not always a good thing.

Now, that might seem a bit whimsical, but this pervasiveness of this tendency towards spontaneous order sometimes has unexpected consequences.

He didn't overpower it like they have a tendency to do.

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