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

All the rates had a tendency to decrease in 2001 when compared to 2000, with the exception of chronic diseases of digestive systems, whose rate in increasing.

The language of the 1947 and 1951 treaties apparently reflects the increasing tendency to regard most treaties as surviving the outbreak of war.

The effect of structural adjustment programmes had also led to increasing privatization in general and the growing tendency to outsource tasks which had been the prerogative of the State.

Now we have the reverse tendency.

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

Noting that the negative effects of the Internet on the drug problem are increasing with the continued dependence of youth on that vital source of information and the growing tendency by criminal groups to use modern technologies in their activities, as well as in the promotion of their activities,

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.

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

Referring to Law No. 53 2000, she said that the Committee of Experts of the International Labour Organization had expressed concern about the increasing tendency of women to accept atypical employment contracts she would appreciate gender disaggregated data by contract type.

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.

If you look at the iPhone with its touch and the Wii with its bodily activity, you can see the tendency it's getting physical.

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

It was noted that the judiciary was not independent and that local officials had a tendency to interfere with legal matters.

There are several common features of women of reproductive age the tendency of decreases of the general and specific fertility rates because of deliberate abortion used as a family planning tool, increasing rates of unwanted pregnancies, with an increased number of rapes, sexual harassment and prostitution, which leads to an increase of contagious sex diseases.

As TNCs were the main beneficiaries of globalization, they should play a role in development, with their increasing rights being matched with increasing responsibilities.

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.

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

We rejected the tendency to equate asylum seekers with criminals, even terrorists, and deplored the harmful exploitation of this confusion by certain populist elements.

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.

I count the steps and the lampposts and all those things that visually impaired people have a tendency to have a lot of meetings with.

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.

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

Human rights protection is not amenable to diplomacy, with its tendency to untransparent process and to view the State to State relationship as the primary consideration.

In the operational activities of the United Nations for development, we support the Secretary General's emphasis on increasing the level of inter agency coordination in the delivery of technical cooperation, but we are concerned about the inadequacy of oversight arrangements and about the tendency towards concentration on governance and human rights.

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

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

Mr. Pulido León (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) said that while his delegation did not object to peacekeeping missions that were based strictly on the objectives established in the Charter of the United Nations, it was concerned at the Security Council's increasing tendency to create peacekeeping operations designed to deal with post conflict situations by taking on tasks of reconstruction that were the responsibility of the States themselves.

Another development is the increasing tendency of military generals to speak out of turn on strategic issues and undercut diplomatic strategy. The simple truth is that the foreign ministry is the Chinese government s weakest branch, often overruled or simply ignored by the security establishment, which is ever ready to upstage even the Party.

Jean Monnet, one of the godfathers of European unification, embodied this tendency a born bureaucrat who distrusted politicians. Democratic politics is messy and divisive, and riddled with compromises.

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.

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.

The Province has been gradually increasing its support for children with special needs.