Sentence examples for competing tendencies from inspiring English sources

These competing tendencies have made country music one of the nation's most exciting genres, as performers figure out what to do.

But were Justice Kennedy to rule on gay marriage itself, his decision would most likely depend on how he balanced two competing tendencies.

He posited that how they swim will depend on each individual's competing tendencies to stick close to the others (and thus move in the same direction as them) while not actually getting too close to any particular other fish.

There are three competing tendencies within Israel's ruling coalition: annexationists (who want to formally take over the West Bank), status quo merchants (who wink at the notion of two states while expanding settlements), and Bantustan two-staters (who want the Palestinians to accept 50 percent of the West Bank as constituting a state).

Following the principle of compromise in competition, two structural quantities are identified, which exhibit mutually competing tendencies, roughly corresponding to two competing mechanisms, and depending on various kinetic processes.

So how will these two competing tendencies that comprise our evolved tribal psychology – one an ancient disposition to produce lots of different cultures, the other an ability to extend honorary relative status to others even in large groupings  – play out in our modern, interconnected and globalised world?

Pre-response conflict arises when several competing response tendencies are elicited by a task (Yeung et al. 2004); decision uncertainty refers to underdetermined responding in situations when information about the correct response is insufficient (Botvinick et al. 2001; Volz et al. 2003; Dayan and Yu 2006).

In case that the basic emotions module does not release a competing action tendency, the decision to search for food is passed on to the execution unit.

The first assumption is that participants' behavior is driven by at least two competing forces; the tendency to choose a deck based on its perceived ultimate payoff and the tendency to select a deck based on previous emotional reactions to experienced wins and losses.

To varying degrees, at various times, France, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Qatar and Turkey have all played a role in a country whose competing factions and tendency to deadlock have made it vulnerable to foreign meddling.

Specifically, performing a weak task is thought to require a strongly imposed task set, which is then difficult to overcome when switching away from this task, resulting in large performance costs (Allport et al. 1994) and a tendency to perform competing tasks less often (Yeung 2010).