The phrase "increase the tendency" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "Increasing awareness of the need to conserve resources is expected to increase the tendency towards more sustainable practices."
It is possible that the differences in trauma mechanisms are caused by increased osteoporosis with increasing age and/or by reduced lean body mass, which might increase the tendency to fall in middle-aged patients.
In addition, demands increase the tendency to escalate commitment to hardline positions in crisis negotiations.
To make matters worse, demands increase the tendency to escalate commitment to a strike.
The added salts increase the tendency of the polymers to aggregate in solutions.
They can create a climate marked by psychological safety and positive norms (e.g., learning from, rather than punishing, mistakes) and thereby increase the tendency for managers who feel incompetent to solicit ideas.
It is also possible to more than double the power of an engine by supercharging; however, increased charge density and temperature, resulting from supercharging, increase the tendency for combustion knock or roughness in the spark-ignition engine and thus necessitate an undesirable decrease in compression ratio or the use of an antiknock fuel.
This chapter elaborates the overview of notch behavior and reveals that the presence of a notch alters the stress state near the notch and may increase the tendency for brittle fracture in potentially four ways by introducing high local stresses, by creating a triaxial stress state ahead of the notch, by causing high local strain hardening, and by magnifying the strain rate locally.
Niedenthal et al. (1999) advanced a fine-grained theory of emotional response categorization, arguing that emotional states increase the tendency to categorize concepts into a predictable set of emotional response categories characterized by the common, distinct emotional responses elicited by the concepts.
