"The Iraqis may be caught between two tendencies: speed, which means attracting oil companies as soon as possible and that means offering favorable terms, and nationalist feeling," said Vera de Ladoucette, a senior director at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consulting group that sponsored the Houston conference.
Leese became a city councillor in 1984, and eventually played his part in a convulsive debate between two tendencies within the Mancunian Labour party – the result of which, he says, set the city's co-ordinates for the next 25 years.
But there is also a tendency to treat many if not all aspects of agency as mere awareness of bodily actions or tendencies, which moves one back towards a more normal Humean position.
Notice that the distinction between the two tendencies relies on the original distinction between the qualitative and the quantitative multiplicities.
This ambiguity the legislators fully appreciated, assuming that a healthy equilibrium could be maintained between the two tendencies.
The compromise between these two tendencies was reflected as the extremal tendencies at the mesoscale and the macroscale.
There was, however, particularly in the early stages, considerable musical crossover between the two tendencies.
Finally, they completed the Comprehensive Assessment of Sadistic Tendencies, which evaluates tendencies towards "everyday sadism".
On his account, the Warring States period (475 221 BCE) developed two philosophies, Daoism and Mohism respectively, which followed these two tendencies to extreme, and a third, Confucianism, which he represents as a compromise between them.
You can never tell which of the two tendencies, the visionary or the revisionist, will come out on top.
