Sentence examples for a broader tendency from inspiring English sources
David Harwell, who teaches literature at Alabama, believes that the problems of the football program are just part of a broader tendency by the university to lean on its past glories instead of doing the hard work to improve itself.
This seems to be part of a broader tendency to fetishise and fashionise books and bookishness – it's what Christine Smallwood identified last year as "the merchandising of reading" and what you might also call the lifestyle-ification of literature.
When exchange rates were kept at artificially high levels, East Asia's economies were able to borrow in dollars at ludicrously cheap rates, reinforcing a broader tendency to invest without regard to the cost.
This forms part of a broader tendency for property markets to be especially bubbly in big cities, particularly capitals such as London.With global monetary conditions so loose, governments are using regulatory tools to cool overheated housing markets.
But analysts also identify a broader tendency among American consumers to move down market into smaller segments when they encounter shock at the pump, going from sport utility vehicles to crossovers, from midsize to compact sedans, and from compact to subcompact hatchbacks.
That coincided with a broader tendency toward rationalization, a general social pattern identified by the sociologist Max Weber that emerged in modern industrial societies in response to the large-scale reorganization of production and whereby goal-oriented rationality was increasingly infused into the organization of social activities.
A broad tendency toward instability and partisan conflict, he writes, is woven into the fabric of a political system in which a democratically elected executive can come from one party and a democratically elected legislature from another.
After three decades of forest regeneration in our study area, there are still measurable differences in habitat use, with a broad tendency for parrots to favor old growth over secondary forest.
Finally, a Mantel test comparison of the PST and FST matrices indicated that there was a broad tendency for high levels of pairwise morphological divergence to be associated with high values of pairwise microsatellite DNA divergence across a broad range of h values used in calculating PST (i.e., h = 0.25 0.75, Z = 45.6 76.5, r = 0.25 0.28, P = 0.01 0.008, e.g., Fig. 6).
Cytokine levels showed a broad tendency to be increased on day 1 of lactation relative to naturally cycling (NC) concentrations, and significant increases were observed in IL-6, IL-9, IL-12 (p70), IL-13, G-CSF, GM-CSF, MCP-1, MIP-1α, MIP-1β and TNF-α.
