Sentence examples for tendency to apply from inspiring English sources

Fowler agrees that there is a growing tendency to apply our own concerns to Zelda.

In her drive for technical perfection, Ms. Streisand has a longstanding tendency to apply too many coats of aural varnish to her records.

"There is a tendency to apply our moral standards abroad and Argentina must understand the reaction of Congress with regard to loans and military assistance.

But in their opposition to the nationalisation of Northern Rock they displayed naivety and an alarming tendency to apply 1980s ideas to an entirely new situation.

When someone is held in such high regard, there is sometimes a tendency to apply the ethics rules more flexibly because the person is so trustworthy.

Mr Putin did make the "dictatorship of the law" his catch-phrase, but people around him still have the disturbing tendency to apply the law selectively, and mostly against the president's political enemies.

In particular, Rosenbaum's (1980) Self-Control Schedule (SCS) is a survey instrument designed to assess people's self-reported tendencies to apply self-control to solve behavioral problems.

That means you won't drop it.' Her tendency to give explanations also applies to larger units of text; for example, she tells the children how they are going to download the photos before they start doing it.

In considering how to compare allelic frequencies, there is an understandable tendency to just apply the chi-square test and obtain the 'truth' [ 47].

In contrast to the late-20th-century tendency by writers to apply modern narrative techniques to their novels stands the social realism of Mahmoud Dawlatabadi.

But the biggest surprise was on what educational researchers call "generativity" – the tendency of students to apply the ideas of symmetry on their own to problems they haven't encountered before.