Sentence examples for develop a tendency to from inspiring English sources

Rats trained under these conditions develop a tendency to emit extra lever presses during the time of heroin infusions (unreinforced responses).

The home fans began to voice their frustration as their side seemed to develop a tendency to play the ball backwards when an attack looked possible.

In the case of an environment characterised by the presence of strong wind, the tree will develop a tendency to produce reaction wood to change its centre of gravity so as to bring the stem to a vertical position (forming a curve).

"It is not hard to see how someone navigating that sort of neighborhood environment could develop a tendency to reflexively push back against being challenged," the paper continues.

She developed a tendency to refer to herself in the third person.

The long-toothed matinee idol – that lesser-spotted showbusiness queen Keiran O'Nightley – has developed a tendency to shun the world.

Perhaps as a consequence, we've developed a tendency to downplay the importance of the human element in managing.

Under the new rule, it appears that chief executives of smaller companies developed a tendency to take option profits shortly before their stocks declined.

In some cases, original habitats were in present-day wintering areas, and animals developed a tendency to leave in spring in order to breed in other territories.

Explaining his actions, Eisenhower said he wanted to produce firsthand evidence of these things, if ever in the future there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to propaganda.

(Last year, Rove wrote a fan letter to a junior academic who had published a book pointing out that during the Civil War the Republican Party developed a "tendency to conflate Republicanism with loyalty and Democracy with treason").