The fall of Communism and the decades of prosperity since World War II have only reinforced the faith in a free market system's in-born tendency to repair itself.
The bottom line, according to byproduct theorists, is that children are born with a tendency to believe in omniscience, invisible minds, immaterial souls — and then they grow up in cultures that fill their minds, hard-wired for belief, with specifics.
While artist teams and co-authorship may be a phenomenon described by some as the future of contemporary art, in China at least it is more likely is a tendency born out of necessity.
But the production, set in 1920 this time, can't save the material from a blandness born of a tendency to soft-pedal and blur what in O'Neill — even in a good mood — remains cleareyed and, to use his word, exact.
If you're born with a tendency to fall hopelessly in love with people who will never love you back, maybe you're doomed for life.
After Khan's post was reprinted by the National Association of Public Defenders, other lawyers around the country contacted him to say they agreed that the backlash against the judge plays into a larger tendency, born out in judicial elections around the country, to reward punitiveness and punish mercy.
It's likely that they are born with such tendencies, replicating what their kin have always done for generations.
It may well be; but on any given occasion, it could also be a knee jerk -- born of prevailing tendencies, distractions, and want of time.
People are born with allergic tendencies and, although a new environment may help for a short time, repeated exposure to new materials will probably cause allergy problems.
In much the same way, he says, we are born with an innate tendency for belief, but the specifics of what we grow up believing — whether there is one God or many, whether the soul goes to heaven or occupies another animal after death — are culturally shaped.
