"tendency" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Politics being concerned with the power to govern there is a constant tendency, a need perhaps, for governments to seek an accretion of power.
- The constant tendency throughout France has been to reduce the rate.
- There has been a fairly constant tendency since 1962 for Bewick's Swans to appear earlier in winter, and in 1972 the Amberley flock started to arrive in late October.
- However, this phone has proven to be very unreliable with a constant tendency to freeze when you are multi-tasking or try to read a message too quickly after reception.
- As with many other languages with strong literary traditions, there was a more or less constant tendency toward the development of a neutral written form acceptable to the speakers of all dialects.
- Mr. Rivette shows a constant tendency to move backward, to find the ultimate context, and that has often come close to a wish to include, or allude to, the way the whole enterprise is being filmed.
- This may have been due to his constant tendency to try something new or different.
- Osmosis leads to the red blood cell having a constant tendency to swell and burst.
- Mr President, on the issue of fishing, there is a constant tendency in this Parliament to confuse privileges with conservation.
- As politicians, we have a constant tendency, if we want to achieve something, to throw a new layer on top, additional regulation, an additional programme, an additional funding option.
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