Tendency
a tendency (noun) - when something is likely to happen in a certain waya clear tendency
a marked tendency
a slight tendency
a strong tendency
a growing tendency
an increasing tendency
a dangerous tendency
a tendency to watch certain TV programmes
a political tendency
a common tendency
a general tendency
one of the bearded pig's most endearing habits is to roam through the forest desperately craving certain food items
a neurotic tendency
elitist tendencies
a counter tendency
an inherent tendency
an underlying tendency
he had a tendency to treat workers as automatons as cogs in the machine
the tendency to judge a woman's worth by her appearance
his tendency to intervene in provincial and private affairs led to far-reaching changes
a tendency towards social consensus rather than social or class conflict, is what makes Japan different
fishkeepers have a tendency to overfeed the fish causing a water quality problem
you have a tendency to be emotionally, spiritually, and financially dependent on your own parents
they have a greater tendency to rate themselves as ambitious, highly sexed, strong-willed and well endowed
an alarming tendency
a contradictory tendency
a natural tendency
aggressive tendencies
curb aggressive tendencies
reduce these tendencies
reinforce these tendencies
display these tendencies
centrifugal tendencies
a consistent tendency
has a tendency to ....
has a tendency to lose its shape
forestall any tendency to....
X almost entirely due to the tendency to Y
the high crime rate almost entirely due to the tendency to record minor offences
middle-aged women have a tendency to understate their ages
have a tendency to...
have a tendency to exaggerate the unpleasantness of the situation
the electorate's tendency to watch both BBC-TV and ITV
there is an increasing tendency for such workers to regard this function as a separate job
the traditional tendency for researchers to exclude uncertainty variables from tested models
there is a tendency towards non-linearity in the rate of growth.
Example sentences:
* Do you have a tendency to be dependent on your own parents: Emotionally Spiritually Financially?
* The danger with non-fishkeepers is that they have a tendency to overfeed the fish, causing a water quality problem.
* Nevertheless, our view of Japanese society is often supported by an underlying assumption that a tendency towards social consensus rather than social or class conflict, is what makes Japan different.
* Thirdly, it may be possible to help people who have a tendency to exaggerate the unpleasantness of the situation.
* Middle-aged women have a tendency to understate their ages; this phenomenon is sometimes called age-shifting.
* It has a tendency to lose its shape and can only be spun into relatively thick strands.
* It is possible that the traditional tendency for researchers to exclude uncertainty variables from tested models may result in mis-specified models and false conclusions.
* The growth appears to be fairly steady, and rather small, but there are dips at 1967-68, and 1972-74, and there is a tendency towards non-linearity in the rate of growth.
* The emergence of the superego vastly extended this trend because it represented a characteristically human --; or, we might say, neurotic tendency: namely, an ability to redirect a drive to the extent that it is turned back against the ego itself (i.e., hate of the father becomes hate of oneself for hating him).
* One of the bearded pig's most endearing habits, at least as far as the human inhabitants of its native Borneo are concerned, is its tendency, in the occasional year, to form huge herds and plunge lemming-like through the rainforest in a desperate craving for a certain food item (a kind of acorn, it is thought), whose supply fluctuates.
* Choice of television viewing was even more limited partly by the similarity between BBC-TV and ITV, but also by the electorate's tendency to watch both BBC-TV and ITV.
* The tendency to judge a woman's worth, or for her to judge her own worth, by her appearance, was by no means new.
* Nevertheless there is an increasing tendency for such workers to regard this function as a separate job, not part of food production or handling, to be carried out by other unskilled people.
* They also have a greater tendency to rate themselves as ambitious, highly sexed, strong-willed and well endowed.
* It was therefore concluded that gaze direction is a function both of an individual's consistent tendency to rely on a particular half of the brain and of differential hemispheric arousal in response to specific experimental situations.
* Hadrian's energy, mobility and his tendency to intervene in provincial and private affairs led to far-reaching changes, both in the personal appearance of his subjects and in wider aspects of public and private life.
* When parks are ploughed, there is a tendency for farmers to plough closer and closer to the trunk until eventually the tractor disturbs the roots and the tree suffers, or even dies.
* As a military power the papacy was a failure, and this above all saved the popes from the innate tendency of medieval prelates to become secular rulers.
* Thus we might look around and point to something red and say" This is coloured red"; and then, perhaps, in order to forestall any tendency to mistake the word for the name of a particular shade of red, gesture towards another thing of a similar but not quite the same hue, and add" And that is red too".
* The apparent higher crime rate in the neighborhood was almost entirely due to the tendency of the police to record trivial offences.
* Individuals may be seen as cogs in the machine and one of the major criticisms of Taylor's approach was that he had a tendency to treat workers as automatons who would respond to financial incentives automatically.
* It meant an increasing tendency for all men-of-war, at least of the larger types, to be built in government dockyards rather than by private contractors.
* People have a tendency to present their messages as a new problem… rather than as something which has within it the elements of a solution.
* In the South, where Labour was not so deeply influenced by trade-union traditions, the local parties were becoming an increasingly coherent pressure group with a common outlook and a tendency to look outside the Labour Party and towards the Communists for ideological guidance.
