Sentence examples for backward tendencies from inspiring English sources

"Policy, polity, politeness, urbanity, civility, derive their names as well as their nature from city life, while the terms rustic, savage, heathen, pagan, indicate the rougher and more backward tendencies of the herdsmen and cultivators of the ground," was the considered view of the Liverpool architect and Victorian city booster Sir James Picton.

During this period the towns developed and prospered, but in the rural settlements a backward tendency had set in.

The backward tendency of R3 on the other hand increases CO concentration and decreases H2 concentration.

With the rise of N2 DR, the maximum of pressure in cylinder and the maximum of heat release rate exhibited decrease trends, the centre of heat release curve showed a moving backward tendency.

But either way, Boym's The Future of Nostalgia – the classic 2001 study of that backward-looking tendency the author helpfully terms "hypochondria of the heart" – is a vital source of enlightenment for anyone exploring the guerrilla music-press online archive scenario.

Mr. Rivette shows a constant tendency to move backward, to find the ultimate context, and that has often come close to a wish to include, or allude to, the way the whole enterprise is being filmed.

Related to this comparatively recent tendency to glance backward has been a radical change in Mr. Glass's approach to writing for the voice, which will be apparent in the festival concerts.

In the children with nasal obstruction there was a higher tendency for a backward rotation of the mandible associated with an increase in anterior face height by 3 degree (SD 5) of the mandibular plane angle (Harari et al., 2010).

Obama: A warrior-hearted black man running for president in a country that bends over backward to deny its white supremacist tendencies?

By the conservative intention-to-treat analyses (with forward and backward carrying of missing observations), a tendency to underestimate the variances appears.

It ranges between 0% and 100% and reflects the habitual tendency to count forward or backward.