Sentence examples for universal tendency from inspiring English sources

Only "humble courage" can combat the universal tendency to sin.

They do not fight the nearly universal tendency to equate technology with progress.

Part of the problem lies with our almost universal tendency to believe what we want to believe.

Why should we expect him to be exempt from the universal tendency to rationalize one's errors and to distort the record to protect one's self-esteem?

This strong sense of tradition and succession in crime fiction was underlined by the almost universal tendency of leading crime novelists to acknowledge predecessors as inspirations.

These assimilations illustrate a universal tendency of vowel interaction and are of relatively recent origin; they are best held apart from the question of vowel harmony.

If it is difficult to imagine a more anomalous predicament, it is all the more to Strauss's credit that he locates at its core some pretty universal tendencies: to crave connection, to resist it when it is finally made and then to regret the damage done by that resistance.

Clearly, further work is needed before the question of universal tendencies in the prosodic encoding of politeness can be conclusively settled.

Typology starts with the systematic description of linguistic systems of individual languages and these descriptions are then compared to identify cross-linguistic or universal tendencies for generalisations about language.

And conversely, universal tendencies in color naming across languages (Kay and Regier 2006) do not show that color-naming differences among languages are without effect on categorical perception (Thierry et al. 2009).

Whereas his father, Don Isaac, could still adapt humanistic themes to his Hebrew writings, which were still primarily in conversation with medieval thought,[13] increasingly in Judah's generation the only way to engage in a full-scale examination of the universal tendencies associated with Humanism was to write in the vernacular.