"fundamental tendency" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used in discussions or analysis of human behavior or natural phenomena. Example: The fundamental tendency for humans to seek social connection is evident in the formation of friendships and communities.
The second reason the heretics were ignored is because there is a fundamental tendency for companies to suppress dissent.
But they can be offset by a more fundamental tendency towards inequality, which is unleashed wherever demographics or low taxation or weak labour organisation allows it.
"Our study indicates that the potentially devastating consequences of global warming threaten people's fundamental tendency to see the world as safe, stable and fair.
As Malcolm Gladwell put it in a 1996 New Yorker essay, "Human beings have a seemingly fundamental tendency to compensate for lower risks in one area by taking greater risks in another".
The fundamental tendency in Western property law to agglomerate property rights in a single individual is probably not the product of the influence of a particular philosophical idea or the dominance of one social group over another or even of a balancing of social interests.
The courts, however, at no time recognized an absolute privilege of land use, and this may be seen as a product both of the inherent tension in the fundamental tendency and of the fact that the agricultural classes retained some social power.
Furthermore, its effect proved to be negative, for the relatives did not know anything about the person arrested, and this was in contradiction to our fundamental tendencies.
The expected values series confirm fundamental tendencies observed before in deterministic comparisons of these theories, an analysis of the coefficients of variations shows the resulting uncertainty level and sensitivity of the effective characteristics, while skewness and kurtosis show that Gaussian character of the homogenized tensor prevails in this problem.
One of the fundamental tendencies of markets is they create the circumstances within which it becomes possible to exploit differences in value, differences in cost.
Just as Chimisso stresses that '[Metzger] employed the rather vague expression "fundamental tendencies" perhaps because she wanted to include under the heading "mental a priori" also non-rational and emotional predispositions which impact on the way people reason' (ibid.: 214), I will indeed come to emphasize the latter based on my discussion of Metzger's shorter texts.
Our second major concern about characterizing a fundamental climate space is that MaxEnt effectively assumes that the central tendency of native range localities is an unbiased way to characterize the realized climate space boundaries.
