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Example sentences for "tendency toward"

  • If there is a tendency toward constipation, half a cup of wheat bran, cooked, and served as an ordinary cereal, should be taken at the morning and the evening meal.

  • Though a tendency exists toward local segregation of Negroes to which I have already referred, there is also a counter-tendency toward a scattering of Negroes throughout the entire country.

  • And thus we discover a tendency toward a friendly living together under the new relationship, in which the Negro is not a slave or a dependent, but a man and a citizen.

  • I have pointed it out as a tendency toward nationalisation in educational interests.

  • Similarly, when the surfaces of the cranium showed a tendency toward flatness, or when there were cranial protuberances, even though these were destined to disappear, they were regarded as malformations.

  • Great good in it for thee; better I'll buy thee clothes.

  • To understand its fundamental nature is not difficult, for it has been preserved and handed down to us in the writings of the New Testament.

  • In one respect we approach an examination of the Ante-Nicene church with feelings of admiration.

  • Sidenote: Mode of admission] Becoming a member of the spiritual body of Christ is necessarily a spiritual operation.

  • Nevertheless, we discern in these works two leading tendencies which stand, so to speak, as prophecies of what was to predominate in the ecclesiastical thought of succeeding centuries.

  • He sent truth like fiery darts to the hearts of his hearers.

  • He had a copy book, a kind of scrap-book, in which he put down all things, and thus preserved them.

  • It is necessary to guard against birds which show any tendency toward crooked or roach back, hump back, crooked tails, or twisted wings.

  • The back line of the Aylesbury should be straight, showing no tendency toward a slight concavity as in the Pekin.

  • The color of plumage should be white throughout and should show no tendency toward creaminess.

  • On the other hand, if the axis were tilted more than now, the winter nights would be longer and the winters more severe than at present, and there would be a tendency toward glaciation.

  • Thus the atmospheric supply would increase, the air would again grow warm, and a tendency toward deglaciation, or toward an inter-glacial condition would arise.

  • Any departure beyond the limits means lessened efficiency, and in the long run a lower rate of reproduction and a tendency toward changes in specific characteristics.

  • Superposed upon this there seems to be a tendency toward complexity.

  • In every experimental science, there is a tendency toward perfection.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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