However, there were fluctuations in this tendency which are beyond our ability to fully understand.
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This does not refer to any increase in the tendency of criminals to become politicians, or vice versa.
In doing so, it accentuates a bandwagon tendency in Melanesian politics that is also evident in the neighbouring Solomon Islands.
Puncturing the myth of frigid family relations, so often lazily repeated in television costume dramas, Mr Gay argues that the overriding tendency in bourgeois Victorian life was towards greater intimacy.
What really runs in families is a tendency toward mood disorders in general, as well as a number of other conditions, such as anxiety and risk of substance abuse.
That said, Barclays Capital analysts in London said in a note to clients on Monday that they saw a strong trend tendency in portfolio flows, warning of more outflows given the current high level of investor uncertainty surrounding the euro zone.
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Because statistics show that overbought markets have a tendency to underperform in the near term, and this tendency is even more pronounced with markets that have been trending lower.
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"It's not just enforcing contracts, although he does have a definite tendency in that direction, " said Ribstein.
"There was always this tendency in our family to be as white as you could, " admits Boursicot.
It's no secret there is a tendency in Washington to spend our time pointing fingers at one another.
In 2010 the tendency for strength over the first three days of the month was even more obvious.
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This induces a tendency in many organizations to leave old rules in place.
Human beings make terrible mistakes all of the time and there is a resilient tendency in people toward forgiveness.
On issues such as trade and immigration, he has stood out against the nastier isolationist tendency in his party.
Observers offered slightly mixed assessments so far, with some describing a pick-up but others feeling there is still a wait-and-see tendency in the market.
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But this tendency in girls makes it smart to help her explore and strengthen her inner nature and encourage her to try new things.
But it also points to a wider tendency in Brazil of employing people in menial jobs that, in more developed countries, do not even exist.
"There is still a strong tendency in Northern Ireland to view politics as a zero sum game, in which there are only winners and losers, " Mr Cameron said.
Given the tendency in our society to complexity rather than to simplicity, and given the power of special interests versus the general good, a clean, elegant solution won't come easy.
And so there's a tendency in the cockpit--I can remember this myself in--on Columbia in 1996 when we had a potentially very dangerous hydrogen leak in the aft engine compartment.
Similarly, audit committees straddled with the Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for 100% independence, financial literacy, and at least one financial expert have a tendency in some companies to become busy committees full of busy audit committee members.
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"When brokers are in control, their tendency is to protect their own and cover their own tracks in cases of anomalies, " he charged.
But, you know, I think what I was trying to describe in the book was the tendency for those of us who believe in religious tolerance to then believe that any mention of religious faith is somehow suspect.
Yet when a public figure emerges in a new setting, the unfortunate tendency is to imprison him in our own set positions.
And this brings us to the most contentious question in the scientific study of religion: Is religiosity -- including our tendency to believe in supernatural entities as well as our ability to lose ourselves in religious rites -- an adaptation?
The only way to comprehend it is in terms of a human struggle to keep technology human, given its natural tendency to evolve in disturbing and incomprehensible-to-humans way.
It just takes too long to go through four critiques of every performance, and instead of a built-in majority you know have a tendency to split, forcing them to bring in producer Jimmy Iovine as a tiebreaker (though this season he was only used once).
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"Every financial system that we have ever seen in history has had a tendency to speculative over-investment, to overreach itself, and then to contract in the form of a crisis, " Mr Pettis says.
Chief of those is that Republicans in Nevada have a tendency to self-destruct.
Filmmaking in today has the tendency to focus on the lone artist.
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