Sentence examples for a universal tendency from inspiring English sources

These assimilations illustrate a universal tendency of vowel interaction and are of relatively recent origin; they are best held apart from the question of vowel harmony.

Then, the power characteristics of each simulated turbine were summarized and a universal tendency was found.

First of all, there is a universal tendency to avoid voiced sibilants in languages around the world.

Racial prejudice apparently stems from deep evolutionary roots and a universal tendency to form coalitions and favor our own side.

We would like to believe that these observations could be due to a universal tendency to use 'contract cheating' instead of 'ghost-writer'.

By adding more data from different languages to the sample, one could investigate whether it reflects a universal tendency rather than a specific tendency in Old Chinese rhyming.

In the absence of seismicity and associated fracturing, there is a fairly universal tendency for permeability to decrease due to mineral precipitation and other hydrothermal-alteration processes (Gleeson and Ingebritsen 2016).

There is a well known universal tendency in people to use positive words, 13 and exaggeration of research related news has previously been linked to overstatements in academic press releases.

Attempts to empirically measure the existence of such a trade-off have produced mixed and inconclusive results,1 and many commentators dismiss the idea that there is an inherent or inexorable universal tendency for ethnic or religious heterogeneity to reduce solidarity.

Designs have the universal tendency to evolve in a certain direction in time [55].

A plot development that draws upon our universal tendency to assume causal connection between two events that occur in succession (the logical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc) is a literary universal.