Mr. Catsimatidis, a Republican candidate for mayor, has a colorful, if occasionally problematic, tendency toward free association when speaking at campaign events.
He condemned what he called "a very problematic tendency under the Obama administration of vilifying police officers" and said "there is absolutely a Ferguson effect", linking the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement to rising crime rates in minority communities.
But TED also clearly tries to be inviting, in a manner reflective of what West sees as a problematic tendency in the tech world, that "every new idea is the best one, and because we are profiting off of it, everyone must know — and everything else is backwards and obsolete".
However, we have become concerned about the problematic tendency of covering repeatedly the same territory.
Consequently, there is considerable interest particularly in the field of criminology in determining what sorts of treatment interventions are likely to be effective in modifying the problematic behavioral tendencies of this difficult population.
But Mallon also says that the public reaction to a charge of plagiarism can be problematic, because the tendency is either to reject the charge or reject the author: "There is no sliding scale of opprobrium".
Equally problematic is a tendency in existing research to focus on the consumption of material goods and services, thereby overlooking the question of how inequality affects the distribution and consumption of symbolic goods such as respectability, status recognition, and achievement of upward social mobility.
Third, and perhaps most problematic, such a tendency in our political system is bad for a representative democracy.
For African-Americans, the nation's major disadvantaged minority, these tendencies are problematic, although African-American leaders are too shortsighted to notice.
