Sentence examples for latter tendency from inspiring English sources

The latter tendency suggests that maybe society can alter the size-to-status relationship and cut down on obesity.

Out of the latter tendency emerged hymnic poetry during the 18th and 19th dynasties, triggered by an imperial trend toward unicentrism in government and universal syncretism in religion.

This latter tendency was reinforced when the French philosopher Victor Cousin, writing in 1835, classified the history of philosophy under three distinct headings: the true, the beautiful, and the good.

The story of Elizabeth Warren, "woman of color," represents a reductio ad absurdum of the latter tendency, which has been all too prevalent in elite universities — giving us affirmative-action programs that benefit West Indian immigrants more than the descendants of slaves, and faculties that include a wider range of skin tones than of political and religious views.

The latter tendency has never troubled me much, partly because the show usually resolves those knots in pleasing and surprising ways, and partly because there are so many rewards that come from spending time in this wonderfully detailed and believable world.

The latter tendency was especially common amongst species with present ranges restricted to southern Europe.

70) that Philodemus, eager to please, could not turn a deaf ear to Piso, a Roman senator, despite the latter's tendency to ignore the fine distinctions with which the doctrine of pleasure was hedged about.

The latter's tendency to feature the infamous absinthe glass in various numbers of his works, including Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto (1903), and his 1914 series of sculptures, Glass of Absinthe, highlights the drink's muse-like function throughout Picasso's body of work.

The former captures the capacity to inhibit a prepotent response, and the latter the tendency to respond before target onset.

The height-to-diameter aspect-ratio of the slider insures that the latter has little tendency to flip.

However, the latter see the tendency in urban studies to be structuralist whereas what is proposed here is activity-theoretic.