Sentence examples for tendency to slide from inspiring English sources

He said the Wrights' early planes also had a tendency to slide sideways.

"The secret is to make changes permanent," says one: "there is a tendency to slide back to the past".

Granted, parts of the work were marred by fleeting pitch problems and a tendency to slide into notes.

Judis also acknowledges, but never really tries to dissect, the dark side of center-left policy elites: their tendency to slide into technocratic hubris.

He added, "We wanted to have uneven surfaces, because vehicles going around a corner have a tendency to slide a little bit from one pavement to another".

Cone, now sixty-nine, is a professor at Union Theological Seminary, in New York; he has a high, emphatic voice and a tendency to slide to the edge of his seat when he's about to make a point.

As a result of this instability, there is a natural tendency for theism to slide back into some form of polytheism that postulates "demi-gods", in order to satisfy the human need to have some image or impression of God (NHR, 8.2, 15.5).

The high energy cost may result in part from a tendency of proteins to slide backwards at specific stages of the translocation reaction (Schiebel et al., 1991; Bauer et al., 2014).

Beyond that again is a story, unspoken but none the less told, to do with inconstancy, the tendency of all things to slide.

"They faced countless daily issues — school problems, struggles with discipline, bed times, expectations and a tendency to let things slide a little, which really doesn't work well for kids".

The moment a work is considered for entry into the Tate collection, she must report what it will take to look after it – existing damage that might need repair, in-built structural risks, known instabilities in materials (a particular brand of paint made in the 1980s has displayed an alarming tendency to liquefy and slide off paintings).