Sentence examples for long-standing tendency from inspiring English sources

There has been a long-standing tendency to use heparinized or heparin-like structures in the materials for blood contacting sites.

But last week's revival of dire predictions suggests that the Manhattan Institute has a long-standing tendency to view crime trends with alarm for political effect.

Despite our long-standing tendency to assess matters of race in the South in terms of black and white, literally and figuratively, the truth is more ambiguous.

Despite its long-standing tendency to isolate itself from the rest of the world, Bhutan was the object of several foreign invasions in the centuries after its establishment.

We start from the observation that most of the countries in the region have a long-standing tendency for fixed exchange rates, and ask how such a system could best be designed.

Several chapters argue that the United States is not immune to the long-standing tendency of states to balance against power, while others contend that wise U.S. policies, the growing role of international institutions, and the spread of liberal democracy can limit anti-American balancing.

These long-standing tendencies are to be regarded as preconditions rather than causes of the coronation; they do not account for it, but without them it is difficult to imagine how it could have taken place.

The reason this took place is to be sought (1) in certain local events in Rome in the years and months immediately preceding Charlemagne's coronation in 800, and (2) in certain long-standing tendencies that made this particular solution of a difficult situation thinkable.

There has been a long standing tendency in education for digital technologies to eventually fall short of the exaggerated expectations that initially surrounded them".

This is of particular concern in light of the long standing tendency (as Salamon notes, 2010, 45) to construe transsexuality in terms of sexual desire, to reduce cross-gender identification to a kind of sexual fetish, and to elide trans gender body dysphoria as a discrete phenomenon.

They said a psychologist found "long-standing depression" and a tendency to turn "feelings of anger and hostility inward".