Sentence examples for direct tendency from inspiring English sources

In 1764, the patriot James Otis, Jr., declared that nothing could be said "in favor of a trade that is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish the idea of the inestimable value of liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant".

In Federalist No. 75, Hamilton dismissed a supermajority rule for a quorum thus: "All provisions which require more than a majority of any body to its resolutions have a direct tendency to embarrass the operations of the government and an indirect one to subject the sense of the majority to that of the minority".

Through the comparison of different phenomena that affect architecture in a more or less direct way tendencies can be discerned, on what will be defining architectonic criteria in the years to come.

If criticism is to be made, it should be directed against a tendency towards Imperial centralisation, which might possibly be promoted by this move of the Viceroy's seat to Delhi.

TO DO's menagerie makes wry puns on the camera's tendency to direct, flatten, enclose and categorise the world.

Also, the presence of aromatic quaternary carbons (bridged as well as substituted) shows a direct correlation with the tendency of asphaltenes to form stable emulsions.

Briefly, the higher the frequency of attacks and the intensity of pain the higher the tendency to direct the anger toward oneself in the attempt to dominate the problem.

In large countries such as the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, Brazil, India and China hundreds of millions and even over a billion people can all be united around a single tribal identity as British or Japanese, American, Indian or Chinese and they will have a tendency to direct their cultural nepotism towards these other members of their now highly extended tribe.

1994) (defining homosexual as "of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex" and "of, relating to, or involving sexual intercourse between persons of the same sex" [emphases added]).

We therefore interpret these results as emerging from the accuracy of our algorithm at identifying coevolving residues paired with the tendency for direct structural interactions to strongly influence residue coevolution.

If true, this interesting hypothesis could establish a direct link between the tendency to aggregate and the genomic code.