The phrase "a weaker tendency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lesser inclination or propensity towards something compared to a stronger tendency.
Example: "In this study, we observed a weaker tendency for participants to choose the healthier option when under time pressure."
Alternatives: "a lesser inclination" or "a diminished propensity."
There is also a weaker tendency to cycle back to lower-cost strategies, although generally just one tier lower than a previously adopted strategy.
Comparison with homologous PEIs without ether linkages revealed lower glass transition temperatures and a weaker tendency to form liquid crystal mesophases.
Glu residues are also less frequently buried in the core than Asp because they have a weaker tendency to bond to the local main chain.
Cu has a weaker tendency to dewet leading to a less-complicated grain structure.
We found a weaker tendency in the same direction for methylmercury exposure, but in this case only for prenatal exposure.
Melanophores in shd mutants show a weaker tendency to aggregate into a stripe region close to X0, compared with rse mutants (Fig. 2B,C).
In these films, coercivity exhibited a weak tendency to increase with temperature.
There was a weak tendency (R-square=0.12, P=0.08) for specific activity (revertants/mg "tar") to increase with decreasing "tar" yield lower "tar" products had a slightly higher specific activity.
While our descriptive statistics show that Chinese city-regions at the prefectural level have a weak tendency towards polycentricity from 2000 to 2010, regression models reveal that a more monocentric spatial structure performs better in terms of labor productivity, a result that a stricter two-stage least square estimation supports.
According to Giere, on the other hand, the die has a weak tendency to land '3'.
There was a weak tendency for units of intermediate in-degree to have higher MRSA prevalence, but the chance to find a MRSA positive patient in a high-degree unit was almost as high.
