Sentence examples for tendency to stretch from inspiring English sources

It's an especially good tactic against a zone-heavy defense like New England's because pocket movement has a tendency to stretch defenders and widen the voids.

The funerals of African-American notables have a tendency to stretch out — the astonishing service, in Charleston, for the Reverend Clementa Pinckney went more than four hours; the service for Rosa Parks, in 2005, went nearly seven — but not this one.

But her tendency to stretch phrases to the point of losing momentum also marred the first part of the program, which included Chopin's Nocturne in D flat (Op.27, No. 2); Daniel Felsenfeld's "Cohen Variations," a series of mellow ruminations on Leonard Cohen's song "Suzanne and Brahmsms's Intermezzo in A (Op. 118, No. 2), played without pauses from one work to the next.

Remarkably, at a viscosity ratio of unity, the droplets remain in a nearly undeformed state as the capillary number is varied between 2 and 8, apparently because under these conditions a tendency for the droplets to widen in the vorticity direction counteracts their tendency to stretch in the flow direction.

He has a tendency to stretch the truth, which his opponents hate, but his supporters love.

According to a Globe and Mail investigation, the dean of medicine at Wayne State University in Michigan warned head hunters in 2003 that Porter had a tendency to stretch himself thin with his various business enterprises.

This behavior can be attributed to the crumpled and agglomerated conformation of the FGOs with longer alkyl chains (Figure 2h), which is not an ideal conformation for stretch transfer because these conformations have the tendency to unfold rather than stretch in-plane under an applied tensile stress.

"The tendency is to stretch as far as we can.

That is because the losses are "pervasive" across four states, he said, and with business losses, as opposed to death and personal injury, "there's a tendency for some people to stretch the bounds of what's reasonable".

This suggests a tendency in personal networks to stretch the boundaries of normality and to avoid pathologising distress or labelling behaviours as deviant, because to do so may be seen to imply rejection.

But in suggesting that leading Republican candidates - in particular Mitt Romney but also Herman Cain and Rick Perry - might also have socialist tendencies, Mrs. Bachmann seems to stretch the word pretty far.