Sentence examples for existing tendency from inspiring English sources

Some Delta groups grew rich, a development that may have encouraged an already existing tendency to conceive of gods and spirits as species of beneficent foreigners.

With phobias, of course, it's impossible to point to one precipitating cause, one formative event, and in Mr. Shawn's case, a constellation of events, experiences and environmental influences helped reinforce any existing tendency to bury his difficulties inside.

Although all of the arguments seem to be justified taking into consideration the evidence provided, we suppose there is a deeper reason that could explain the existing tendency of increased delinquencies and widening gap between rates for low and high-grade loans.

The existing tendency of shorter lengths of stay in hospital for patients with CRC can result in less time to assimilate information and to prepare for discharge [ 5, 6].

First, dentists practicing RA are concentrated in the South and Southeast Brazil, raising the prospect of an existing tendency for polarization in RA practice, perhaps because most of the qualified dentists live in these regions, and they are located where there are more RA training courses.

Sympathetic observers have tended to blame that on Czechoslovak disappointment with the West; she suggests that it was a culmination of existing tendencies.

Indeed, the Chinese cyber public sphere is not a superimposed agent of change but a conduit through which the existing tendencies of Chinese society can be advanced.

Very much like ELSA, RRI builds on existing tendencies in academia and policy to integrate societal research and interaction into science and technology practices.

And in any event, alcohol tends to exaggerate existing tendencies, not create them.

It is not known, however, whether the delirium itself was the cause, whether delirium exposed a pre-existing tendency toward cognitive impairment, or whether other variables such as medications were responsible for this phenomenon.

Considering all patients had an HbA1c <6.5%% on admission, we can argue that even when within the normal range, elevated HbA1c indicates a predisposition to SH, demonstrating a pre-existing tendency towards glucose metabolism disturbances including diabetes.