Sentence examples for familiar tendency from inspiring English sources

It is a familiar tendency, reducing women to archetypes with little room for gray.

Some patients are remarkably free from grievance – or they struggle pluckily with this familiar tendency.

But they said the general, a former Pakistani Army commando, was showing a familiar tendency to alienate potential allies by dictating changes instead of building consensus.

Graf had actually led 5-3 in the second set, "before displaying a familiar tendency to pause on the brink of success," as The Times put it.

This familiar tendency on the part of the US government to spend money it doesn't have on things it doesn't get is now directed at developing procedures it shouldn't use.

This has left Mr Cameron exposed and virtually guaranteed, whichever way the squabble ends, to lose more friends in Europe than he can afford.Critics of the prime minister detect in this a familiar tendency to prize his own dashing arts of persuasion over finicky alliance-building.

In Mexico, one finds echoes of a trend familiar to Europe: the tendency of cultures with negligible folk and popular music to produce great classical composers.

As the senator wrote, "Americans are familiar with the tendency to overregulate in other areas.

The third paragraph of the "story" illustrates a very familiar but disturbing tendency in U.S. and Western news reporting on Israeli responses to attacks from terrorists harbored (or in the case of the Palestinians and the Lebanese, democratically elected) in neighboring lands, to break with the normal narrative structure of a story.

Become familiar with the tendencies and preferences of your target demographic when developing a menu for a new venue.

The youngster, apparently already familiar with Steinbrenner's tendency to roam unannounced as he saw fit, wrapped a towel around his midriff and said, politely, "Hello, Boss".