"tendency" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There are certain inborn tendencies, and some acquired ones, that enable a person to become a wizard.
- He asserted some have "...an inborn tendency, constitutionally recreant to the codes of civilization, and therefore technically criminal."
- Temperament factors refer to a certain behavioral style that is an inborn tendency but also highly influenced by the environment the child grows and lives in.
- Reification may derive from an inborn tendency to simplify experience by assuming constancy as much as possible.
- Suppose you had an inborn tendency towards heart disease, could you prevent the onset through adopting a particular attitude of mind?
- On the other hand, some readers interpret the stutter symbolically, and say it represents original sin, the inborn tendency to evil in our nature.
- Xunzi believed man's inborn tendencies need to be curbed through education and ritual, counter to Mencius's view that man is innately good.
- There's a certain inborn tendency toward peeling as an adaptive thing, stemming from the genetic makeup that's the impetus to pick and clean and groom.
- Carmen and Juni are officially unaware of their parents' prior calling, but their inborn spylike tendencies make them pariahs at school.
- Reviewing the Opinion "To invite someone to prove that he or she does not have an inborn tendency seems like a hollow offer," the judge said.
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