Sentence examples for more general tendency from inspiring English sources

And this seemed to reflect a more general tendency to go with the political wind.

"This reflects a more general tendency in the FSA's pre-crisis supervisory approach for key supervisory decisions and responsibilities to be delegated several layers below the FSA's CEO," the report said.

Different authors have noted a more general tendency in Saharan camel husbandry towards reduced mobility and grazing intake and increased consumption of fodder and supplementary feeds (Michel et al. [1997]; Faye et al. [2003]).

The authors cite research that finds young kids have "a more general tendency to assume that adults only talk about real things".

It is interesting that the second law of thermodynamics (which applies only to closed systems) can be resisted by appealing to the more general tendency of (open) systems to reduce their free-energy [35], [36].

A very apparent and even more general tendency is the increasing importance of systems out-of-equilibrium representing an essential characteristic of living matter.

Nonetheless, though the "adventurist" phase of Communist-inspired militancy was over, more general tendencies toward direct bargaining and strike activity persisted in both countries.

Rather than conceptualizing delay of gratification as a distinct ability, the American psychologists Jack Block and David Funder and their colleagues identified it as an expression of ego control a person's more-general tendency to inhibit impulses.

This could in part be due to a more general common tendency to conflate 'management' and 'governance' which are, in fact, very different terms, albeit often closely related.

Herein we may cover only a few of them as illustrative of more general trends and tendencies.

Thus, the result from Experiment 1 could speak to a more general relationship between a tendency to be model-based and a tendency to be goal-directed on separate "tasks", rather than to the more specific hypothesis that associations learned in model-based fashion are more sensitive to subsequent devaluation.