The phrase "a tendency to break" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a habitual inclination or likelihood of something to fail or become damaged.
Example: "The old machinery has a tendency to break down during peak production hours."
Alternatives: "a propensity to fail" or "a likelihood of breaking".
Wires have a tendency to break.
O'Neill's horses also have had a tendency to break down.
However, when you consider that "fissiparous" is itself a tendency to break apart, "fissiparous tendencies" would actually mean "tendencies to have a tendency to break apart" which is somewhat less sinister.
included poor organizational skills, weak verbal fluency, inefficient problem solving, a tendency to break task rules, and weak working memory".
A tendency to break into dialogue may be a vestige of a dramatic element in nonliterary satura.
That business about "a tendency to break task rules" does not mean that the testers caught me Googling for answers.
They also have a greater tendency to break down: 27 passengers were trapped on a stalled elevator at 181st Street in an hourlong ordeal earlier this month that was captured on video and widely viewed on the Internet.
In an attempt to test if there are loci with a high tendency to break and reorganize in the Afrotheria, and whether these are coincidental with evolutionary breakpoints, we have analyzed the expression of aphidicolin-induced common fragile sites in fibroblast cultures from different specimens of three afrotherian species.
Results of the direct numerical simulations also show that the film has a strong tendency to break up into more droplets or rupture in the absolute instability regime.
These children had a higher tendency to break rules, disobey their parents, cheat at school, and even use drugs.
Here we test if there are chromosomal bands with a high tendency to break and reorganize in Afrotheria, and by analyzing the expression of aphidicolin-induced common fragile sites in three afrotherian species, whether these are coincidental with recognized evolutionary breakpoints.
