Sentence examples for tendency argues from inspiring English sources

"All of the first years of all presidential terms under the Fifth Republic have been characterised by such a tendency," argues Frédéric Bozo, at the Sorbonne, in a paper for the Foundation for Political Innovation, a centre-right think tank.The decision to help out in Afghanistan is the clearest sign so far that Mr Sarkozy is prepared to back his Atlanticist words with deeds.

Unlike others who looked to the Soviet bloc or the third world for salvation, this tendency argued for the centrality of the working class of developed capitalist societies as the agency for social change.

Some tendencies argue that the Fourth International became dislocated politically during the years between Trotsky's murder and the establishment of the ICFI in 1953; they consequently work to "reconstruct", "reorganise" or "rebuild" it.

It's the Woody Allen antics, the tendency to argue tetchily yet with wit.

One is his tendency to argue pointlessly with the moderator and his opponents over the rules of order.

The evildoers consist of Badger Teeth, Haymaker, Mr. Think, Fumes and Gossip Girl, whose shoulders and hands have extra mouths (with a tendency to argue).

For a long time, he attacked the Xikun style, then popular, for its formalistic tendency and argued that writings should be utilitarian.

Fulham had no-one capable of threatening the Spaniard's command and disturbingly, while Arsenal grafted, some home players displayed a tendency to argue with each other.

Particularly at the investment bank, from where the LIBOR scandal and other public-relations disaster emanated, there was a pervasive win-at-all-costs attitude, which "may have led to the tendency to argue at times for the letter rather than the spirit of the law".

In the preface, Orwell describes a "peculiar phenomena" of the time: "the renegade Liberal" and the "widespread tendency to argue that one can only defend democracy by totalitarian methods".

If they have a tendency to argue over what to listen to, be creative and only bring classical.