Sentence examples for like the tendency from inspiring English sources

So it's about the attempt to dramatise, if you like, the tendency to overblow played against the tendency to undercut.

But the desire to communicate, like the tendency to make mistakes, is only human.

Increasingly, transistor manufacturers grapple with subatomic effects, like the tendency for electrons to "leak" across material boundaries.

But I do not like the tendency to sacralize artists and in that way raise whatever they do above earthly questioning.

Of course, tendencies ordinarily antithetical to what we mean by "real character" — like the tendency to obey — may, in some contexts, be a part of character.

Like the tendency of apples to fall to the ground, the existence of mass is so quotidian that the idea it needs a formal explanation would never occur to most people.

He doesn't like the current tendency to find some other name for creme vichyssoise.

The intensity ratio of He-like Kα to H-like Kα has the tendency to be smaller than that estimated from a thin hot plasma model.

"When you suffer a loss like this the tendency is to stick your head in the sand and consider it gone with the wind, so to speak," said Michael Thurmond, the state labor commissioner, who has seen the number of manufacturing jobs in the state drop to 450,800 from 530,000 in 2000.

This assertion can be analyzed using the ideas of evolutionary psychology such as the association of animals with disgust and mortality, the inclination to sympathize closely with familiar animals like pets, the tendency to form in- and out-groups in dire situations and the concept of fair play.

At times like these, the tendency for most of us is to shut down and hold tight to what we know, without realizing that is the very thing that is making everything appear more difficult.