The phrase "weaker tendency" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a tendency that is not as strong or influential as another one. Example: Despite his love for chocolate, he had a weaker tendency towards choosing healthier snacks.
There is also a weaker tendency to cycle back to lower-cost strategies, although generally just one tier lower than a previously adopted strategy.
Comparison with homologous PEIs without ether linkages revealed lower glass transition temperatures and a weaker tendency to form liquid crystal mesophases.
So, Au is the most appropriated candidate to be agglomerated in the destructed environment of heteronuclear Si O chemical bonds, while Cu demonstrates relatively weaker tendency.
Glu residues are also less frequently buried in the core than Asp because they have a weaker tendency to bond to the local main chain.
A comparable, yet weaker, tendency was observed for angular noise, such that groups of coefficients with the same angular noise have higher values than groups with different angular noise.
Cu has a weaker tendency to dewet leading to a less-complicated grain structure.
Similar but weaker tendencies were found for myocardial infarction.
This trend is attributed to a relatively weak tendency for W segregation to the grain boundaries.
In these films, coercivity exhibited a weak tendency to increase with temperature.
There was a weak tendency (R-square=0.12, P=0.08) for specific activity (revertants/mg "tar") to increase with decreasing "tar" yield lower "tar" products had a slightly higher specific activity.
While our descriptive statistics show that Chinese city-regions at the prefectural level have a weak tendency towards polycentricity from 2000 to 2010, regression models reveal that a more monocentric spatial structure performs better in terms of labor productivity, a result that a stricter two-stage least square estimation supports.
