The phrase "a tendency away from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a shift or movement in behavior, attitude, or trend that is moving in the opposite direction of something previously established.
Example: "There is a noticeable tendency away from traditional marketing methods in favor of digital strategies."
Alternatives: "a shift away from" or "a movement away from".
On the one hand, there's a tendency away from the novel, toward nonfiction.
On the other hand, there's a tendency away from objective journalism, toward memoiristic or essayistic nonfiction.
During the second half of the 20th century, there arose among certain avant-garde composers and performers a tendency away from any vestige of traditional structure.
These books are by authorities who were concerned with the realities of heraldry in their own day, but from the end of the 15th century a tendency away from the actual and toward the fanciful and absurd manifested itself.
There has been a tendency away from this in recent years, particularly with the preponderance of back-to-back Test matches putting a strain on bowling attacks, and a tendency for pitches to hold together better than once they might.
Rather than an indication that Miyamoto has taken up some unspeakable pastimes in recent years, his request indicates a shyness, a natural tendency away from the limelight.
There is a tectonic shift of consciousness occurring and an evolutionary tendency away from the mechanical and back toward the natural.
Conatus a centro, or "tendency towards the center", is used by Descartes as a theory of gravity; conatus recendendi, or "tendency away from the center", represents the centrifugal forces.
These networks have previously been shown to be anti-correlated". So is being happy all about shifting our tendency away from focus on ourselves?
The use of the inclusive pronouns they/them/their is vital in shifting our tendencies away from male-oriented language.
For his opposition to the new order and also for alleged tendencies away from the doctrine of the Trinity toward Unitarianism, Erastus was excommunicated for two years.
