Sentence examples for tendency to select from inspiring English sources

Party bosses select candidates and have shown an increasing tendency to select their own relatives.

Jacobson's triumph is all the more piquant because he has been a vigorous and contentious critic of Booker's tendency to select "the same dreary books year after year".

Professor Cacioppo believes that reflects an evolutionary tendency to "select into circumstances that allow us to stay in a good mood".

Graham is the type of track athlete at receiver that the Baltimore Ravens recently had a tendency to select during the first four rounds of the draft.

One of the ways in which genes work, he says, is through our tendency to select and design a particular environment.

There was an increased tendency to select details and endow them with symbolic meaning, to set down the thought processes and emotions of the characters, and to make use of rhythmic prose.

The tendency to actively select positive thoughts suggests the existence of a mechanism to exclude negative content, raising the issue of its dependence on mechanisms like those of effortful control.

For instance, in tasks in which semantically ambiguous words are presented in a context priming the less frequent meaning, schizophrenic patients display an abnormally strong tendency to erroneously select the more common meaning [2], [5] [8].

We identify this tendency with a preference function P(s t,a t ), which indicates the tendency or preference to select a certain action in a certain state.

Without randomization, there may be a tendency for researchers to select these participants for particular intervention groups they favor (i.e. selection bias).

"I think since we started breeding animals there has been a tendency for some to select for form over function.