After he came to the States in 1988 on a literary exchange program -- and decided to stay when China's burgeoning free speech and democracy movement was violently closed down by the government the following year -- in 1993 he founded, with a group of writer friends, like himself all Chinese exiles in their 30's, a magazine called "Tendency".
The present study investigates the application of a general purpose modeling and optimization approach, called "Tendency Modeling", to the catalyzed epoxidation of oleic acid.
But David Usupashvili, chairman of the Republican Party and a member of the coalition, said Mr. Saakashvili's close relationship with the Bush administration had blinded the United States to what Mr. Usupashvili called authoritarian tendencies in his government.
Instead of financial projections, he crunches his opponent's play-calling tendencies.
Mr. Gates, in particular, has questioned what he called "a tendency toward what might be called next-war-itis — the propensity of much of the defense establishment to be in favor of what might be needed in a future conflict" rather than the tanks and armored troop transports needed now.
Camus called the tendency to dehumanize those who stood in the way of history the problem of "abstraction".
Meanwhile, Abhijit Banerjee of MIT, while commenting generally favourably about the substance of the report was disappointed in what he called a tendency toward "knee-jerk macro-ism".
Timothy Graham, director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, said he was more concerned about what he called the tendency of mainstream network news to "glamorize protests".
Set up by a bunch of design students from Bauhaus University in 2009, My Bauhaus, now called New Tendency, holds exhibitions of conceptual design and sells small editions of furniture and objects.
Integrity is undergoing what C.S. Lewis, in his "Studies in Words," called "the tendency of words to become less descriptive and more evaluative... and to end up by being purely evaluative -- useless synonyms for good and bad".
