Sentence examples for powerful tendency from inspiring English sources
"American society," Foner says, "has a powerful tendency to homogenize blacks, whatever their own preferences".
"The powerful tendency since the 1980s towards increased inequality in income distribution is likely to be reversed," Mr. Garnaut wrote.
I suppose we must salute the latest blow for the powerful tendency which seeks to erase all remaining traces of candour from sport.
Kahneman's argument is that human beings have a powerful tendency to over-estimate their own abilities, to think they can, say, pick stocks better than their peers.
When a "colorful" celebrity has achieved some sort of sustained and nominally respectable worldly accomplishment (record sales, business success, public office), and has been around long enough to acquire the appealing vulnerability of old age, and has not been convicted of a capital crime, there's a powerful tendency to go all warm and fuzzy on him.
So if "The Class" is not a documentary, it nonetheless documents a powerful tendency in contemporary cinema, one that is implicitly ranged against the lavish forays into fantasy, allegory and historical mummery that dominate commercial movie-making around the world (especially in Hollywood).
Among the disciplines that formed the social sciences, two contrary, for a time equally powerful, tendencies at first dominated them.
It is important also to identify three other powerful tendencies of thought that influenced all of the social sciences.
Dr. Martinson concluded that rehabilitation strategies "cannot overcome, or even appreciably reduce, the powerful tendencies of offenders to continue in criminal behavior".
The government has a reputation as hopeless, but at the street level, Haiti shows powerful tendencies toward self-organizing, adaptability and cooperation.
An imaginative and extensive regional planning proposal to preserve open space, completed in 1924 by the planning firm headed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., failed to gather enough support to slow the powerful tendencies toward urban sprawl and the preference for automobiles.
