Sentence examples for have tended to adopt from inspiring English sources
International health organizations have tended to adopt the policy perspectives of IFIs and trade organizations.
Latin American countries have tended to adopt the American model of competition policy, whereas eastern Europe has followed the EU's example.
Bishops' conferences in English-speaking countries have tended to adopt a more aggressive, zero-tolerance policy in recent years, while more traditionalist cardinals inside the Vatican and elsewhere in the Catholic world have often closed ranks to defend fellow prelates.
Whilst policy makers have tended to adopt an 'information-deficit model' to bolster levels of flood-risk preparedness primarily though communication strategies promoting awareness, the assumed causal relation between awareness and preparedness is empirically weak.
In the UK the authorities have tended to adopt a hostile and defensive architectural response to crime and anti-social behaviour: the erection of thousands of CCTV cameras, provision of gated communities and, most recently, the use of metal spikes in the streets.
Literary scholars of recent times have tended to adopt the same interpretation, though perhaps not for quite the same reasons.
The businessman-turned-mayor, who until now has tended to adopt a pragmatic, bottom-line tone when discussing the city's budget, sought yesterday to paint his budget decisions in more human terms than he has in the past.
The vast majority of the cost overrun literature has tended to adopt a deterministic approach in examining the occurrence of the phenomenon; in this paper a shift towards the adoption of pluralistic probabilistic approach to cost overrun causation is proposed.
It is often argued that TQM has tended to adopt "quality purism", by relying on sophisticated quality tools.
The literature on natural kinds (cf. Mill 1884) has tended to adopt a more restricted conception of kinds, although articulating that conception is not straightforward.
Even advocates who disagree with the Court's jurisprudence have tended to follow its lead by adopting the narrow corruption frame in making their case to the public.
