"It's the role of the government to hold back these unhealthy tendencies."

She earned another badge when she was accused of "unhealthy tendencies" and was not published in the Soviet Union for nine years.

Deng Xiaoping hoped that this would satisfy conservative critics wary of reform and keep in check any unhealthy tendencies among the younger generation.

Regrettably, Mr. Tandja has an unhealthy tendency to take that orthodoxy too far, to his people's detriment.

We had no cars in which to get in trouble, no shopping malls to develop unhealthy materialistic tendencies, no basements for holding wild parties.

Congress has long had a famously unhealthy tendency toward coziness.

Aziltov had developed an unhealthy tendency to replay pleasurable moments.

Most males have an unhealthy tendency to ob&y laws.

The emphasis was going to be on anything exotic, anything excitingly (or boringly) new, and any unhealthy tendency to pay attention to the food before all else.

Highly personal poetry and discussions of the subconscious were viewed as representing an "unhealthy" tendency.