The phrase "a continuing tendency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an ongoing or persistent inclination or trend in behavior, actions, or situations.
Example: "There is a continuing tendency among consumers to prefer online shopping over traditional retail."
Alternatives: "an ongoing trend" or "a persistent inclination".
A "fundamental disequilibrium" exists when outward payments have a continuing tendency not to balance inward payments.
what seems to be a continuing tendency in this Court to use as tests such easy phrases as "compelling [state] interest" and "least drastic [or restrictive] means". I have never been able fully to appreciate just what a "compelling state interest" is.
eAnd there seems to be a continuing tendency to reduce the inventory still further.
But among thinkers influenced by al-Kindi, one can discern a continuing tendency to harmonize "foreign" philosophy with the "indigenous" developments of Muslim culture.
Attacking a continuing tendency toward conservatism, he said that taking refuge in the familiar phrase, "a well-balanced fleet," was dangerous because it involved no proper definition of "balanced" and meant a defensive rather than an offensive policy.
However there is a continuing tendency for clinicians in the US to be more ready to use adjuvant radiotherapy than those in Europe.
Possible explanations for the continuing tendency to UTI could be a genetic predisposition for UTI, an anatomic predisposition for UTI, or an increased awareness of UTI for both the women and their doctor.
But the coalition government has failed to reverse the continuing tendency for the richest 1% to get richer faster than the rest of society.
This squeamishness in discussing his life, this continuing tendency to gloss over certain obvious questions or else treat them as unworthy of consideration - these were among the first qualities I detected in the literature, and I found them most evident in the various memoirs.
At one level, the formulas reflect the continuing tendency of political science to seek numerical precision by relating disparate facts: comparing roll call votes with House re-election rates, for example, or determining the frequency of pork-barrel spending by senators of different parties.
With restricted utility there is no consistent and continuing tendency toward reciprocity of benefits, for once the social minimum is satisfied the less advantaged are as likely to gain nothing as to benefit from further gains to those better off.
