There is a well-recognized and, indeed, inevitable tendency for power, in the presence of larger organization, to pass down into the body of that organization.

More ominous, though, is the almost inevitable tendency of corporations to want to control program content.

It has a natural, an inevitable tendency to brutalize every noble faculty of man.

Pearl's inevitable tendency to hover about the enigma of the scarlet letter seemed an innate quality of her being.

The iron law of oligarchy, introduced by Robert Michels, describes the inevitable tendency of hierarchical organizations to become oligarchic in their decision making.

In the interval while a coming event remains in a state of uncertainty, what is it the inevitable tendency of every Englishman under thirty to do?

His inevitable tendency is to ask somebody to bet on the event.

In part this occurs, I believe, because large organizations have a curious and almost inevitable tendency to centralize.

Such legislation was a response to liberal humanitarianism but it was made possible by the inevitable tendency of industrial processes to require more skilled labour.

"There's an inevitable, and probably healthy, tendency to continuously test the character of those in positions of political power or influence," Honor had said instead.