Sentence examples for tendency to lock from inspiring English sources

She also has a strange fear of wind and a tendency to lock herself in the bathroom at odd times.

In Britain there is a tendency to lock away famous people just to make an example of them.

Standard displacement-based finite element formulations have a tendency to lock in the modeling of nearly incompressible materials.

He didn't play with enough anticipation at times and had a tendency to lock onto fruitless reads.

Other developed nations including Australia and the US do not have limits, but critics say the tendency to lock people up indefinitely just makes a bad system worse.

In The Mandarins, her great novel of the post second world war years, Simone de Beauvoir makes her heroine, Anne, an analyst, but one who has grown weary of her own profession's tendency to lock individuals into the straitjacket of a "case".

Although most of these children commit only minor, petty crimes, the tendency is to lock them up – as a punishment and as an education or rehabilitation measure.

Delegates participating from Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, Kiribati, Indonesia, Timor-Leste and the Solomon Islands will emphasize that although most of these children commit only minor, petty crimes, the tendency is to lock them up – as a punishment and as an education or rehabilitation measure.

Anchoring is the tendency to cognitively lock on to salient features early in the diagnostic process leading to an initial diagnosis (Croskerry 2002; Tversky and Kahneman 1974).

It seems obvious, but we've such a tendency to want to lock actors into their iconic roles.

"What so many people have a tendency to do is to lock into a scenario," Summers says.