Sentence examples for tend if from inspiring English sources

You tend, if you are this sort of observer, to talk about "inconsistency".

The home front ReprintsMacedonia's own long-standing ethnic Albanians tend, if anything, to be even more scathing.

Unusually, her inside accounts of how legislation has been made tend, if anything, to downplay her own political influence, portraying any victories for the Liberty cause as collective triumphs in which elected politicians are the stars.

If so many opening nights tend if not to pander at least to giggle excessively, the Cleveland ignored public relations strategies, abjuring glitz and instant indulgence in favor of a deeply serious German program.

If so many opening nights tend, if not to pander, at least to giggle excessively, the Cleveland ignored public relations strategies, abjuring instant indulgence in favor of a deeply serious German program.

It appears that individuals who are genetically inclined toward attitudes typically considered liberal on matters of sexual behavior and reproduction tend, if anything, toward attitudes understood to be more conservative in relation to a broad range of other issues including the draft, capital punishment, taxation, immigration and segregation.

Diplomats from countries where corruption tends to be high were very likely to generate unpaid parking tickets; those from countries where corruption was low tended, if they racked up tickets at all, to pay them.

In effect, the west's reaction had been to treat the Kurds as an internal Iraqi affair; exterminating them en masse may have briefly stirred the international conscience, but it tended, if anything, to reinforce the existing international order.

As year's end approaches, Domenici knows that Clare's law, like Clare herself, needs to be watched and tended if it is not to be overlooked or derailed.

But economic conservatives have tended, if anything, to be at least equally clueless about the importance of industry.

But it, you know it tends, if you get a repeatable process and you stay within your parameters you're going to be fine.