While he sees short-term stability, he said, the Government must address its historical tendency to spend much more than it can afford.

Savigny and his school represented the conservative, historical tendency.

The historical tendency, certainly since the end of the war, has been to de-skill this function by using NC machines.

This historical tendency earned the Liberals the unofficial title often given by some political pundits of being Canada's "natural governing party".

The history of monopoly pertains to the historical tendency of a successful commercial enterprise to dominate an industry.

What is stressed rather is that the same phenomenon provides the foundation for both historical tendencies.

There is a curious historical tendency in legal English to string together two or three words to convey what is usually a single legal concept.

This being the absolute historical tendency, part of the working population will tend to become surplus to the requirements of capital accumulation over time.

Some other later accidental distinction must have cut across the main course of a historical tendency.

Mendelssohn's 42 numbers, lasting two and a half hours, form a hybrid in which contradictory historical tendencies work admirably together.