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

Particularly disturbing is the apparent failure to break the tendency towards retributive violence, so that even one incident carries with it the risk of escalation.

Additionally, OFDI by SMEs has a greater tendency to go to neighbouring countries to diversify risk and access new markets, compared with OFDI by large enterprises or TNCs.

Now we have the reverse tendency.

Noting the tendency of many migrant women to be employed in the informal economy and in less skilled work compared with that of men, which puts those women at greater risk of abuse and exploitation,

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.

Pakistan is now at a crossroads, facing an uneasy moment of truth. To survive, its citizens must act in unison or risk seeing every moderate tendency in the country purged by a clamor of illiberal, religious voices.

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.

A bank with thin margins and limited liability does not have much to lose, and will tend to gamble a tendency that is exacerbated by deposit insurance and too big to fail policies. The result will be more incentives to assume risk.

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?

The growing tendency for entire families to emigrate to countries in which they do not enjoy the rights of citizens and are at risk of discrimination and marginalization and have difficulty integrating, while at the same time losing their natural ties and rights in their countries of origin

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.

But there is also a higher risk of disaster, owing to a seemingly inborn human tendency to extrapolate past returns. Investors could create a stock market bubble, encouraging even more naïve investors to concentrate their personal retirement accounts in the stock market and leaving them dangerously exposed when it crashes.

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.

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

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

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.