Sentence examples for reverse a tendency from inspiring English sources

The journalist is soon told he's suffering from a disorder called Bosnia syndrome, which is basically Stockholm syndrome in reverse: a tendency to identify, morbidly and irrationally, with the victims of catastrophe.

Page now has a tough task of slowing and reversing a tendency for Google's teams to act too independently, and create coherent products that fit with the rest of its strategy.

National security Obama also promised to rewrite American military and national security strategy to downgrade the centrality of nuclear weapons, reversing a tendency among some senior former military officials to argue in favour of an increased reliance on nuclear weapons and a commitment to embrace preemptive nuclear strikes as an option.

Conversely, another subset may reverse a tumor's tendency to metastasize.

In the present study, we observed that fasting glucose levels in untreated obese mice were deteriorating with time while Boc5 could reverse such a tendency (Table 1).

It would reverse a worrisome anti-democratic tendency in Israel, which stems largely from keeping 4 million neighbors under occupation.

In an effort to reverse this tendency, the state has continued to provide assistance to students from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue education of all sorts.

First, it will support internationally benchmarked standards and tests, an effort to reverse the tendency of states to weaken standards under NCLB.

In an attempt to reverse this tendency, numerous artificial salt marshes have been constructed and more are under construction.

This past year we began a project to try to reverse this tendency.

For example, research has shown that we tend to become more sensitive to faces displaying angry or fearful expressions as the day progresses, but that a period of REM sleep can reverse this tendency.