Sentence examples for a recurring tendency from inspiring English sources

This is a recurring tendency.

As Ryan shows, this historically grounded approach goes, to some extent, against the grain of Western political philosophy, which exhibits a recurring tendency to imagine that a life without politics is the best life.

His problems with the law extended into his 90s, when he was threatened with arrest for a recurring tendency to treat public money as his own; he was also an enthusiastic womaniser who was never deterred by scandal.

Thus in theory, throughout history, sport has proved a creative alternative to our recurring tendency to kill each other.

Nowotny et al. (2001) were critical of the recurring tendency to delimit the sphere of science from the sphere of society.

Capitalism's recurring tendencies toward extreme and deepening inequalities of income, wealth, and political and cultural power require resignation and acceptance – because there is no alternative?

Mr. Salonen's work is filled with ideas, references to past composers (was that a touch of the "Tristan" chord?) and a recurring impulse to battle its own tendency toward lyricism, quashing a melodic passage in "Prologue," for instance, with a flatulent blat from the oboe.

Although a single episode of depression may occur in a lifetime, a frequent development of the disease is towards a recurring disorder with frequent relapses intermingled with intervals of well-being, therefore displaying a tendency for chronicity.

The tendency for women artists to be overshadowed by their male partners is, sadly, a recurring one, and for women involved in the Surrealist circle, the situation was even more fraught.

Besides a recurring dividend, which would usually produce a yield in the 1%-2% range, the company has a tendency to add special dividends that often wind up boosting the realized yield above 6%.

The latter represents a recurring theme throughout the research findings; a potentially significant one given the singular nature of the phenomenon and the tendency towards the novel observed in many of its early applications.