He claimed not to have read "Tom Jones," although in deriding its "bad Tendency" to members of his set he demonstrated a suspiciously detailed knowledge of its contents.
One of the problems with timed standardized testing, according to Anna (Erika Christensen), an academic superachiever whose parents are pushing her to go to Brown, is "stereotype vulnerability," the tendency of members of certain groups to perform not according to their abilities but according to societal expectations.
It was stymied by the mechanisms of a class-bound education system, class-segregated housing, a media and cultural landscape that has persistently reinforced class prejudice, and a bizarre historic tendency for members of the British electorate to vote against their own interests.
"There is a tendency by members picked by regional business people to focus much more on inflation and not enough on unemployment.
Rather than a referendum on Lynch, the results may reflect a more basic tendency for members of the party that's out of power to support pushing back against a president they oppose.
At Oxford, both joined the Bullingdon club, known for its members' tendency to get blindingly drunk and break things.
Moreover, the Third Estate had been undermined by its members' tendency to enter the nobility through the magistracy or through official functions (noblesse de robe).
In England, where the press is famous for its tendency to pigeonhole members of the royal family for life, the tabloids long ago began referring to Princess Michael as "Princess Pushy" and "Pushy Galore".
(Although the NCAA and FIFA, football's governing body, could swap notes on lack of transparency, the tendency to bully members and the ability to slosh around large sums of money).
However, party discipline (i.e., the tendency of all members of a political party to vote in the same way) has not always been strong, owing to the fact that members, who must face reelection every two years, often vote the interests of their districts rather than their political party when the two diverge.
