There is a tendency to focus on things that are easier to measure, like economic growth statistics.

Now we have the reverse tendency.

A recent assessment by the World Bank (2005 30) of its own policy line during the 1990s has acknowledged that there was a persistent tendency to overestimate growth prospects in regions implementing adjustment programmes and to underestimate growth performance in those that were not.

Okay, this tendency we have, this seemingly natural tendency we have, towards isolation, towards keeping to ourselves, crashes head first into our modern world.

Like, we have a tendency to see faces.

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).

But complacency does have a tendency to breed contempt.

The tendency to mainstream Western standards is becoming clear.

The same tendency can also be noted among mothers.

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

Big corporations have an in built tendency to reinforce past success.

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

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

It seems to me that she has a tendency to exaggerate.

While there is a tendency to overrate the impact of the oil windfall on current growth, analyses based on long term trends suggest that the economies of the ESCWA member countries have performed well below their potential since the early 1980s.

This has a tendency to restrain innovation in the public sector sphere.

All across the globe, you have this tendency of men wanting a certificate.

And I think we have a tendency to make each other feel guilty.

There is a tendency for people to think that hang gliding is dangerous.

The state and other external actors have a tendency to retain meaningful power.

Is there any correlation, positive or negative, between intelligence and tendency to be religious?

And it's to help all of us, myself included, to counteract the tendency to otherize.

The growing tendency to allocate ever increasing resources and efforts to emergency activities was worrying.

Indeed, the tendency toward informal consultations among Council members had helped streamline the Council's deliberations.

There is a tendency in some media to generalize and misrepresent every incident involving Kosovo Serbs.

There is a growing tendency for Courts to rule upon compensation for the victims of trafficking.

There is a growing tendency of courts to rule upon compensation for the victims of trafficking.

Furthermore, the specialist literature on human rights has a tendency to neglect the more technical problems.

Obama has already put spending cuts on the table probably to a greater extent than would please his electoral base (he does have a tendency to do this). The big question is whether the US can strengthen revenue in an appropriate manner that is consistent with renewed economic growth.

The little one had a tendency to try to run off the track and that's a problem.

The first cultural value shift that we see is this tendency toward something we call liquid life.

That is, you decrease the amount of dopamine, and their tendency to see patterns like that decreases.

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

The rate of fertility in 2001 amounted to 40,1 and continues to have a constant decreasing tendency.

The biggest number of accidents happened in 1996, and since then the tendency has been to decrease.

The tendency to use police powers in dealing with political opposition is also a cause for concern.

So for example, take risk taking. We know that adolescents have a tendency to take risks. They do.

There is a tendency to focus on continuing education as an alternative in the area of indigenous education.

For instance there is a tendency not to pursue cases of domestic violence, unless these are very serious.

Once find the tendency of market fluctuations and emerging problems, measures should be taken timely to effectively resolve them.

I call this process patternicity that is, the tendency to find meaningful patterns in both meaningful and meaningless noise.

That is the tendency to infuse patterns with meaning, intention and agency, often invisible beings from the top down.

But there is a countervailing force in the universe the tendency towards spontaneous order. And so that's our theme.

Her delegation deplored the tendency of certain countries to use human rights issues to promote their own political interests.

They regretted the continued tendency of the western media in stereotyping and profiling perpetrators of terrorist acts as Muslims.