Sentence examples for tendencies behind from inspiring English sources

At the forefront of Obama's tightly held communications operation was Gibbs, an affable Alabaman with pit-bullish tendencies behind the scenes in defense of his boss.

All sorts of things go on behind closed doors and expensive houses have the strongest, thickest doors to hide one's animalistic tendencies behind.

The fashion and tendencies behind the Chicano subculture -- originating in the Mexican-American empowerment movement of the 1940s through 1970s, but now often associated with Los Angeles street gangs -- has found a new home in East Asia.

It's still a dangerous world, though the doomsday clock is much further from midnight than it was in 1961, and the forces of 9/11 and the jihadist tendencies behind them are hardly to be dismissed.

"There was no imperialistic tendency behind it, before the Nazis," he told me.

And the political tendency behind that terrible economic analysis has at least a 50% chance of triumphing in America.

John's Academic tendencies are behind his defense of probabilism in the Metalogicon.

This is hardly surprising; the "speciesist" tendencies lurking behind the various versions of exemptionalism are surely useful for such social creatures as ourselves.

Behind this tendency, as behind so much in life, lies an aunt.

"My mother tried to convince me not to sign up for A.P., because I have a tendency to fall behind," said Megan Kimball, an A.P. English student.

The data example used, shows a toddler's spontaneous action that suggests a complex moment of perezhivanie where "affective and volitional tendency stands behind thought" (Vygotsky 1987, p.282).