Sentence examples for penchant among from inspiring English sources

Mr. Daniels said that if any fiscal clouds were on the horizon, they were a result of a penchant among Democrats for undisciplined increases in government spending.

Embedding products in a show, movie, play or book is intended to counter the increasing penchant among consumers for skipping, zipping through and zapping conventional ads.

TELEVISION networks and channels are becoming increasingly involved in the creation of commercials that appear during their shows, hoping to counter the growing penchant among viewers for zapping or zipping through conventional commercials.

Rapidly expanding nationwide chains of hypermarkets, supermarkets and 24-hour-a-day convenience stores are the latest and perhaps most visible examples of the penchant among the chaebol for seemingly relentless growth.

The Stupid Acronymic Moniker Babushka Collection Combining the doll-within-a-doll format popular throughout 18th-century Russia with the annoying penchant among modern-day celebs for making their name sound like a package delivery service.

Customization refers to the penchant among younger consumers to be expressive and personalize mass-market goods — having it their way, to paraphrase the old Burger King slogan — as they seek to have a say in the story a brand is telling them.

— local yarn supplier — said Blaho, who is a legal librarian and has a penchant, common among practitioners of the fibre arts, for speaking in acronyms.

The impact is obvious in the regime's increasing pervasiveness, its fear-inspired penchant for control, a preference among officials for monologue rather than dialogue, and a dread of foreigners reminiscent of the former Soviet Union and North Korea.

Francis's penchant for walking among crowds has complicated security arrangements.

The central government authorities in Beijing have periodically tried to rein in the widely mocked penchant for grandiosity among local officials who order offices for themselves.

It sadly noted the Tories' current penchant for feuding among themselves and wondered, "Where are the guns trained on the other side?" It then posed a question of some poignancy.