However, McGeer (1996, 2008; McGeer and Pettit 2002) puts considerable emphasis on self-shaping, writing that "we learn to use our intentional self-ascriptions to instill or reinforce tendencies and inclinations that fit with these ascriptions, even though such tendencies and inclinations may at best have been only nascent at the time we first made the judgments" (1996, 510).
Repeated military interventions in politics throughout the 20th century reinforced the tendency toward overweening executives.
The difficulties in reconciling approaches to development and to the environment have reinforced this tendency.
Over the past year, the government's desire to funnel money quickly into the economy has reinforced its tendency to use the established channels of large state-owned enterprises.
C. Keith Conners, a longtime child psychologist who developed a popular scale similar to the one used with Richard, said in an interview that scales like his "have reinforced this tendency for quick and dirty practice".
With a leader of just a few months' standing in power, political uncertainty reinforced the tendency of party apparatchiks to conceal bad news, not just from the outside world but from each other.
The imposition of Orwellian editorial "compliance" standards on programmes after the Hutton Inquiry, which criticised the BBC following the Iraq war row, have reinforced a tendency to refer decisions upward, rather than wield responsibility directly.
Aside from the implicit slur on the professionalism of an official who has had a tough season (he collapsed at Bournemouth in March), the decision also reinforced the tendency to regard the referee as a central figure in every match's drama.
The first great event was his encounter with Jean Vitrier, who became a spiritual guide at a time when Erasmus was spiritually troubled, and whose influence reinforced a tendency to conceive religion as a personal and inward experience.
But really, this trend just reinforces my tendency toward disorganization and my outsized dependency on distracting, life-sucking applications.
