Okay, this tendency we have, this seemingly natural tendency we have, towards isolation, towards keeping to ourselves, crashes head first into our modern world.

So this tendency towards order is not always a good thing.

But there is a countervailing force in the universe the tendency towards spontaneous order. And so that's our theme.

Now, that might seem a bit whimsical, but this pervasiveness of this tendency towards spontaneous order sometimes has unexpected consequences.

Particularly disturbing is the apparent failure to break the tendency towards retributive violence, so that even one incident carries with it the risk of escalation.

So, you know, when a school bus is blown up and we've never seen this before, our general tendency is to orient towards that which is new and novel is activated.

Now we have the reverse tendency.

One of the dangers of globalization is a tendency towards homogenization and the imposition of the cultural norms and standards of the strong, who have power and influence over those who are weak.

Like, we have a tendency to see faces.

We believe, however, that there is a growing trend towards the politicization of human rights within the United Nations and a tendency for certain Governments to take a selective approach in dealing with human rights situations.

Over the last decade, the tendency towards opening further positions to women in the IDF has continued, leading to a growing number of female soldiers assigned to quality jobs and a smaller number to clerical positions.

But complacency does have a tendency to breed contempt.

The tendency to mainstream Western standards is becoming clear.

The same tendency can also be noted among mothers.

Second, all the individuals have a tendency to line up.

Big corporations have an in built tendency to reinforce past success.

He didn't overpower it like they have a tendency to do.

It seems to me that she has a tendency to exaggerate.

The average premium costs per participant vary among different insurance plans and between the costs experienced at New York, Geneva and Vienna, but a tendency towards an increase in average costs is clearly demonstrated with respect to all insurance plans.

This has a tendency to restrain innovation in the public sector sphere.

All across the globe, you have this tendency of men wanting a certificate.

And I think we have a tendency to make each other feel guilty.

There is a tendency for people to think that hang gliding is dangerous.

The state and other external actors have a tendency to retain meaningful power.

Most economic frameworks are among Asians only, but an American initiative could trump them and ensure that the region remains open and engaged with the US. It could also help lessen the tendency of some governments to gravitate ever closer towards the booming Chinese economy.

Is there any correlation, positive or negative, between intelligence and tendency to be religious?

And it's to help all of us, myself included, to counteract the tendency to otherize.

The growing tendency to allocate ever increasing resources and efforts to emergency activities was worrying.

Indeed, the tendency toward informal consultations among Council members had helped streamline the Council's deliberations.

There is a tendency in some media to generalize and misrepresent every incident involving Kosovo Serbs.

There is a growing tendency for Courts to rule upon compensation for the victims of trafficking.

There is a growing tendency of courts to rule upon compensation for the victims of trafficking.

Furthermore, the specialist literature on human rights has a tendency to neglect the more technical problems.

His delegation welcomed the general tendency towards mainstreaming of the gender perspective as an important component of operational activities, both in terms of guidelines and in the formulation of relevant programmes and projects, and improvement of the gender balance in Secretariat appointments, both at Headquarters and in the field.

The little one had a tendency to try to run off the track and that's a problem.

The first cultural value shift that we see is this tendency toward something we call liquid life.

That is, you decrease the amount of dopamine, and their tendency to see patterns like that decreases.

It's a deep tendency toward order in nature that opposes what we've all been taught about entropy.

The rate of fertility in 2001 amounted to 40,1 and continues to have a constant decreasing tendency.

The biggest number of accidents happened in 1996, and since then the tendency has been to decrease.

There is a tendency to focus on things that are easier to measure, like economic growth statistics.

The tendency to use police powers in dealing with political opposition is also a cause for concern.

In the operational activities of the United Nations for development, we support the Secretary General's emphasis on increasing the level of inter agency coordination in the delivery of technical cooperation, but we are concerned about the inadequacy of oversight arrangements and about the tendency towards concentration on governance and human rights.

So for example, take risk taking. We know that adolescents have a tendency to take risks. They do.

There is a tendency to focus on continuing education as an alternative in the area of indigenous education.