Sentence examples for in a tendency from inspiring English sources

This manifested itself in a tendency to fall totally silent in even the jolliest company.

We indulge in a tendency to subsume our present problems in a fiction about the past.

He was forced to rest and not indulge in a tendency to overtrain.

Hypoprothrombinemia, disease characterized by a deficiency of the blood-clotting substance prothrombin, resulting in a tendency to prolonged bleeding.

But when you throw in a tendency to be both relentlessly earnest and occasionally contradictory, it doesn't make them the easiest interview subjects.

And that longevity, he wrote in an e-mail, has "resulted in a tendency to overprotect children from the realities of grief and loss".

In Spain a similar conflict was expressed in a tendency toward ornament, Latinization, and the classics (culteranismo) and that toward a more concise, profound, and epigrammatic style (conceptismo).

But the general idea of the kotodama manifests itself in a tendency for deliberation rather than exaggeration, to avoid speaking of worst cases unless absolutely necessary — that's the ideal, anyway.

The German-born Kneller succeeded Lely as court portrait painter, but, although his portraits often have a certain liveliness, his rather heavy use of studio assistants resulted in a tendency to monotony.

This has resulted in a tendency to use networks that are much larger than required.

The flexure of layered elements results in a tendency for relative longitudinal motion at their interface.