The court held that Austria was not obliged to do so, with an explicit reference to the fact that there is "an emerging consensus towards legal recognition of same-sex couples" (para. 105) and that this was a rapidly developing tendency in the past ten years, but that currently no consensus existed yet (which it described as: there is no majority of states doing this yet).
Whether it's because of our hollow, shaky recovery and vast and growing inequity, or because of trending technology to solve scarcity and make even more people economically irrelevant, socialism is a vital and developing tendency.
But beneath the surface, there are potentially troubling sides to Hazare's movement: a developing personality cult, an authoritarian tendency and the essentially urban, middle-class nature of the phenomenon.
Back in Idaho, in 95-degree heat, the car had developed a troubling tendency to develop vapor lock, its liquid fuel turning gaseous and unusable, leaving me sweating and frantic at the roadside.
Patients, by contrast, seem to have developed a tendency to prefer a closer relationship, which doctors unintentionally fail to acknowledge or notice.
A leading Chinese official who met him in December 2009, the most recent face-to-face encounter recorded in the cables, reported that as a result of his worsening health Kim had developed a tendency to "reverse policies", and that "officials also chart their own course as different factions competing for Kim's attention, making it difficult for Kim to set a firm, clear direction".
But with online video and the lure of branded content, some have developed a tendency to pitch individual videos or a series of videos to advertisers.
(Last year, Rove wrote a fan letter to a junior academic who had published a book pointing out that during the Civil War the Republican Party developed a "tendency to conflate Republicanism with loyalty and Democracy with treason").
She developed a tendency to refer to herself in the third person.
The long-toothed matinee idol – that lesser-spotted showbusiness queen Keiran O'Nightley – has developed a tendency to shun the world.
