This essence has a broad tendency to inflect the moment we are living through.
A broad tendency toward instability and partisan conflict, he writes, is woven into the fabric of a political system in which a democratically elected executive can come from one party and a democratically elected legislature from another.
After three decades of forest regeneration in our study area, there are still measurable differences in habitat use, with a broad tendency for parrots to favor old growth over secondary forest.
Participants completed a short measure of trait affect (Thompson, 2007), which measures people's broad tendency to experience positive and negative mood.
Finally, a Mantel test comparison of the PST and FST matrices indicated that there was a broad tendency for high levels of pairwise morphological divergence to be associated with high values of pairwise microsatellite DNA divergence across a broad range of h values used in calculating PST (i.e., h = 0.25 0.75, Z = 45.6 76.5, r = 0.25 0.28, P = 0.01 0.008, e.g., Fig. 6).
Cytokine levels showed a broad tendency to be increased on day 1 of lactation relative to naturally cycling (NC) concentrations, and significant increases were observed in IL-6, IL-9, IL-12 (p70), IL-13, G-CSF, GM-CSF, MCP-1, MIP-1α, MIP-1β and TNF-α.
The broad tendencies of social change were in keeping with political and institutional progress.
Then, there are certain broad tendencies that guide which products each country will accept from the other.
So in terms of broad tendencies, technologies of surveillance may be one side of the coin, but this kind of [reaction to] news making is clearly the other, and very powerful, counterpart".
"Values" are said to represent very broad tendencies of this type, "interests" being slightly less inclusive, and "sentiments" narrower still; "attitudes" are viewed as still more narrow predispositions, with "beliefs" and "opinions" being progressively the most specific members of this hierarchy.
While the broad tendencies in the data appear to be consistent with the JAT theory, we need to examine whether the first-pass evaluations hold up to controls for other covariates that could affect decisions on academic and occupational choices.
