"past tendency" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to something that usually occurred in the past. For example, "In the past, it was a common tendency to be more formal in writing letters than in emails."
His own past tendency to wander untethered into the world of dreams is under control.
The ayatollah's blunt warning differs from his past tendency to avoid increased pressure on Mr. Ahmadinejad.
If her past tendency toward bluntness holds, she'll have a lot to say soon enough The resulting debates over just how far she can go will be awfully fun to watch.
She has scrutinised her childhood anxieties, her drinking and turn to sobriety, her beloved father's death from a heart attack when she was 10, her liking of porn and interest in anal sex, her trip to the hospital with a junkie boyfriend who had overdosed, her past tendency to put herself "in fucked-up situations", and so on.
Acknowledging what he said was a past tendency by Rio Tinto's management to "underpromise and overperform," Mr. Albanese said the shares remained undervalued and talked up his company's potential independence from BHP. "While BHP may need Rio Tinto, Rio Tinto doesn't necessarily need BHP," he said.
And these polls, don't forget, massage the Labour lead down to compensate for their past tendency to exaggerate it.In this section Working for your welfare Briefly noted Trends of the week Tootsie's revenge Down, not out Paddy ha ha ha Decrepit Labour's hit list The flock instinct ReprintsAs for the theory that the race is bound to tighten, look at the events of the past week.
In the attempt to counteract past tendencies, however, it was possible that the pendulum might swing to the other extreme.
The Programme is also contributing to constructive dialogue and collaboration among farmers, farmers' associations, NGOs, and the public sector, reversing past tendencies to isolation or confrontation.
But Drury had always fought past her tendency toward embarrassment.
To effectively resolve conflict in the workplace, we need to get past the tendency to blame and accuse.
He can't do dialogue (and let's move quickly past Biggles' tendency to the terse ejaculation).
