Sentence examples for tendency to acquire from inspiring English sources

Humanity is on a steep learning curve and many of the lessons we need to learn go against our natural tendency to acquire first and ask questions later.

"Stocks do not stay cheap as long as they used to, so I guess I would have a tendency to acquire positions faster than Jean-Marie would," Mr. de Vaulx said.

It has a strong tendency to acquire a negative charge and forms fluoride ion (F−) in solution.

Groupon has a tendency to acquire and rebrand its better outfitted clones, most recently buying the German startup Citydeal as an outpost of its European expansion.

Gilbert responds to such arguments by noting that, even if they show that conventions have a tendency to acquire normative force, they do not show that normativity is essential to convention.

The term "context bias" refers to our tendency to acquire socially transmitted traits as a function of who is transmitting them rather than what is getting transmitted (Henrich and McErleath 2003).

Serotypes differ by geographical prevalence [ 7], attack rate [ 8], age distribution [ 7] tendency to cause outbreaks [ 9, 10] and propensity to acquire antimicrobial resistance genes [ 11- 13].

Congenital thrombophilia refers to inborn conditions (and usually hereditary, in which case "hereditary thrombophilia" may be used) that increase the tendency to develop thrombosis, while, on the other hand, acquired thrombophilia refers to conditions that arise later in life.

Genomic flux was on average positive, indicating that there is a tendency for strains to acquire genomic elements through nonhomologous recombination.

It is possible that these observations reflect a decreased ratio of muscularis mucosa to epithelium in benign lesions, but a tendency for malignancies to acquire their own Gremlin expression and perhaps a mesenchyme-like phenotype in order to maintain a stem cell-like state independent of the surrounding tissues.

If confirmed, a tendency for smokers to acquire an 'apple shape' due to increasing central adiposity might provide a novel health promotion message to encourage smoking cessation, and appropriate new interventions should then be designed and evaluated as part of overall tobacco control policies in society.