"basic tendencies" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You might use it when referring to a person's natural inclinations, for example: "John has basic tendencies towards kindness and selflessness."
Emotions are fast and flexible response systems that provide basic tendencies for adaptive action.
We discuss the main natural and anthropogenic factors of forecasting and establish the basic tendencies to change natural complexes.
Some students of cultural change, however, maintain that the basic tendencies in social and cultural systems are toward change rather than toward states of equilibrium (see social change).
Two basic tendencies, however, can be discerned: The early Renaissance commitment to the dialogue form (already noted), inspired by the rediscovery of the Platonic dialogues.
Can the trends rightly noted by Bergson and Teilhard — basic tendencies in biological evolution and in the technological and social evolution of the human species — be explained in scientific, physical terms?
As a result of applying the project educational method in the Philosophy course, students have received necessary social cultural skills: realizing the anthropocentricity of the engineering profession and engineer's responsibility towards society, understanding basic tendencies of social development and forming the strategic view on reality.
My basic tendency would be to come barreling in.
DR. MERKEL: Was the basic tendency of the Gestapo's work therefore aggressive or defensive?
The basic tendency in scientific research is towards anonymisation and normalisation of the scientific subject.
A basic tendency in the psychology of perception (and by extension, knowledge and meaning).
However, the basic tendency was the same Fig. 14 Serial number of landmark vs. average number of correspondences.
