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

There was also a growing tendency to attach conditionalities to international cooperation and a recent tendency to exaggerate the growth attained by the developing countries in an attempt to impose on them obligations which exceeded their levels of economic development.

The low increase, which was less than the rate of natural population growth, reflected an observed tendency among parents to delay registration of newborn children.

Now we have the reverse tendency.

(b) Tendency towards a higher mortality rate

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.

Like, we have a tendency to see faces.

. Recent deliberations of ACC have underscored this tendency.

You and I have a tendency towards corpulence.

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

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.

This level shows a greater tendency towards female enrolment.

Everybody has a weakness, a vice, a degenerative tendency.

You just have a common, likeable tendency toward exaggeration.

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

52. There is a tendency towards the abolition of conscription.

This reduction reflects the general tendency of cutting travel expenses.

Must curb tendency to paranoia due to socioeconomic environmental factors.

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).

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

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

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

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

(e) Reverse the tendency to tie donor assistance, directly or indirectly.

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

The tendency towards increases at the top level distorted the grade pyramid.

There is also a strong tendency of tariff escalation for processed products.

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.

(vi) Teaching methods, with a tendency towards rote learning and a formalistic approach

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.

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

The tendency in the civilian protection system has been to focus on displaced populations.

A common problem is the tendency for most support services to be supply driven.

The tendency of the skin to get purple with anger indicates high blood pressure...

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.

From 1998 onwards an upward tendency began to emerge in most sectors of economic activity.

In some countries, there has been a growing tendency to have projects implemented by NGOs.

There was also a tendency to confuse symptoms of underdevelopment with conscious human rights violations.