Hales may have a tendency towards understatement.
For instance an individual suffering from dyslexia may have a tendency to make spelling mistakes.
A moral hazard exists when the applicant may either want an outright loss to occur or may have a tendency to be less than careful with property.
The researchers from Cardiff University suggested that the cause was "parental investment in education" because parents may have a tendency to put more pressure on first-borns.
In adolescence, the function may have a tendency to expand its activities without due regard for how that affects its relationships with the business divisions.
As the researchers note, inequalities of labor that develop in the months after a child's birth may have a tendency to linger long afterward, as husbands and wives get settled in their changed roles.
Ms. Graf may have a tendency to idealize: Her first post-marital squeeze turns out to be a family friend who miraculously had received David's blessing, and David himself appears as a lovable guy's guy in flashbacks (and once through a medium -- the show is, after all, set mostly in Los Angeles).
Some examples, courtesy of Claridge: an outdoor swimming pool on a spring day may be cold, but it's rarely freezing; a friend may have a tendency to moan, but he's not actually at it constantly; you might have plenty of them in your shopping bag, but unless you're a donkey you're probably not carrying loads of potatoes.
The fact that Mrs. Clinton had a blood clot in the past — in her leg, in 1998 — suggests that she may have a tendency to form clots, and may need blood-thinners long-term or even for the rest of her life, Dr. Manley said.
If the answer of the witness may have a tendency to disgrace him or bring him into disrepute, and the proposed evidence be material to the issue on trial, the great weight of authority is that he may be compelled to answer, although, if the answer can have no effect upon the case, except so far as to impair the credibility of the witness, he may fall back upon his privilege.
You may have a tendency to push through your work without taking a break.
