"There's a reinforcing quality," he said, a tendency for presidents to think, I'm the best at this.
There is, Adonis says, a "tendency for poets and painters in the Arab world to be politically engaged.
Everything written in these incomparable books has — as their author might himself have said — a tendency to vanish into thin air.
There was, he said, "a tendency for assessments to be coloured by over-reaction to previous errors," ensuring that the worst-case scenario ruled.Faith-based intelligenceThe Senate committee explained this phenomenon in a colder light.
"The mushroom people in general, and the truffle people in particular, are not good about sharing information," he said, a tendency complicated by what he called a huge black market in truffles.
There is, he says, "a tendency to confuse absence of evidence for a proposition as evidence of its absence".There are now data on the effect of income on well-being almost everywhere in the world.
W. G. Sebald has remarked that Walser's writing "has the tendency to dissolve upon reading, so that only a few hours later one can barely remember the ephemeral figures, events and things of which it spoke…Everything written in these incomparable books has — as their author might himself have said — a tendency to vanish into thin air".
Like many intellectuals, Nehru had, as Tharoor says, a "lifelong tendency to affirm principles disconnected from practical consequences".
She says a cultural tendency among her contemporaries to protect their privacy at all costs was partly to blame for their loneliness.
Mr. Belushi, he said, had a tendency to soothe his demons with a sloppy Joe.
One thing happening in Europe now, he said, is "a tendency toward nationalism, including in the Netherlands.
