Sentence examples for a persistent tendency of from inspiring English sources
Reflecting a persistent tendency of participants to cite medical ethics, Princeton University energy expert Robert Socolow quoted from Hippocrates on "avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism".
The problem was no longer massive unemployment but a persistent tendency to inflation against a backdrop of fairly rapid economic growth punctuated by short periods of shallow recession.
There was a persistent tendency for nurses to observe higher incidences of other nurses engaging in neglectful behaviours compared to reports on their own behaviour.
The random variance can be reduced by taking an average of surveys — and if pollsters have a persistent tendency to favor one candidate over another, we can account for that with our house effects adjustment, which is designed to detect and counteract these tendencies.
Public understanding of the law relating to consent is woefully lacking, and there is a persistent tendency to view women's behaviour much more critically than that of the men who commit even violent assaults.
Over more than 20 years of working with companies on organizational change, we have observed a persistent tendency to believe that women's lagged advancement stems from work-family conflict and that accommodations for women are the solution.
Despite a persistent tendency to emphasize rote learning over original thinking and form over substance, the exams managed to produce an elite grounded in a common body of teachings and to lend credibility to claims of meritocracy.
According to political analyst Mark Halperin, he has shown "a persistent tendency to say silly, offensive, and off-putting things"; The New York Times writes that Biden's "weak filters make him capable of blurting out pretty much anything".
This is why there is a persistent tendency among certain historians to perceive him as a dissimulating Protestant and 'Nicodemite'Nicodemite
Many workplace "crises" don't really deserve to be elevated to that level (even though we may have a persistent tendency to!).
The persistent tendency of designers to do this is captured in the joke designers tell about themselves.
