Sentence examples for tendency to link from inspiring English sources

Several of the suits have found fault with Gawker's tendency to link coverage across several websites, opening up the stories for reader discussion and, in some cases, online harassment.

In the 1950s, sociologists coined the term "homophily" — love of the same — to explain our inexorable tendency to link up with one another in ways that confirm rather than test our core beliefs.

While not knocking narrative nonfiction directly, Taleb indicted our human tendency to link events by creating stories that explain them, the comfort we derive from thinking we understand why something happened if we make a story out of it.

Vitruvian principles underlying much of architectural theory suggest a tendency to link the aesthetic and the utility-promoting.

Furthermore, conceptually there is a tendency to link the idea of "new" with "improved", as well as to attribute values of low esteem ("lower", "less evolved") to species that are phylogenetically more distant to human beings (Werth [2012]).

The same part of book 5 is rich in other cultural reconstructions, including the origin of friendship and justice in a primitive social contract (5.1011 27), and of conventional religion in early mankind's misguided tendency to link visions of the gods, above all in dreams, to their desire to explain cosmic phenomena (5.1161 1240).

These findings may suggest either that childhood adversity does not show the same pattern of relationship with mental disorder in the developing world or, alternatively, that, in traditional societies, respect for parents results in under-reporting of adverse childhood experiences or a tendency not to link these events to adverse adult mental health outcomes.

As physicist and systems theorist Fritjof Capra puts it: "In recent years, biologists and ecologists have begun to shift their metaphors from hierarchies to networks, and have come to realize that partnership - the tendency to associate, establish links, cooperate, and maintain symbiotic relationships - is one of the hallmarks of life".

I know open source has a tendency to be linked to socialist ideals, but I also think it's an example of the free market in action.

The tree does not efficiently resolve the phylogenetic relationship between the 19 amphioxus Akr1 sequences and their vertebrate orthologs, but given that amphioxus Akr1s within the same clade have the tendency to be linked on the genome, the expansion of Akr1 enzymes in amphioxus was likely independent of the diversification of the vertebrate Akr1 proteins.

The most disturbing aspect of the report from Wasilla is the obvious tendency of Gov. Palin to link desired political outcomes in Alaska and the country to God's will -- for example, praying for the construction of a new gas pipeline; or the suggestion that America's soldiers are on a God-assigned task in Iraq.