Sentence examples for tendency to convert from inspiring English sources

The tendency to convert an unknown experience into an artistic echo of safe cultural practices was a corollary of colonialism and in itself a kind of appropriation of the territory.

Pope Benedict XVI has ignited a firestorm of protest from Muslims around the world in reaction to his citation of negative remarks about the Prophet Mohamed and the purported Muslim tendency to convert infidels by force.

In his "Considerations on Representative Government," Mill wrote: The power in society which has any tendency to convert itself into political power is not power quiescent, power merely passive, but active power; in other words, power actually exerted; that is to say, a very small portion of all the power in existence.

The complexity of oil refining increases with the current tendency to convert heavy feedstocks into lighter products and to enhance product quality.

This evidence would suggest that the tendency to convert tree crop estates to arable crop farms in search of short-term funds, would amount to greater inefficiency in farm households' resource use.

In contrast, the impact of LRO is quite different: a tendency to convert to <111> As growth is predicted [24] as a consequence of the instability of the growth in the <111> Ga direction.

The news comes a few days after it was announced that Southwark council had rejected plans put forward by the Bold Tendencies group to convert Peckham's multi-story carpark into affordable artist's studios in favour of, yep, you guessed it, more luxury flats.

The news comes a few days after it was announced that Southwark council had rejected plans put forward by the Bold Tendencies group to convert Peckham's multi-storey carpark into affordable artist's studios in favour of, yep, you guessed it, more luxury flats.

Price is an inveterate and admitted self-dramatizer, and his tendency to try to convert the likes of airport annoyances and shopping trips to Ikea into "The Arabian Nights" can occasionally be vexing.

The Broncos inarguably have the offensive talent to convert those opportunities more often than not, provided that Manning resists his Eeyore tendencies.

The tendency of some Christian fundamentalist missionaries to celebrate the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan as an act of God, and rush to convert Muslims exacerbated the belief that American foreign policy was fulfilling a Christian fundamentalist agenda.