1.   There is a growing tendency for councils to give committees complete power to act on behalf of the council.

2.   There was also a growing tendency to retain a certain amount of booty for personal use.

3.   There is a growing tendency to use Landsat images as one of many layers of information within a Geographical Information System.

4.   Nowadays, there is a growing tendency to include the physical states of the reactants and products in equations.

5.   Within the psychological literature there has been a growing tendency away from strong interactions towards weak interactions.

6.   Instead, desanctification meant a growing tendency to treat him as a politician like the others.

7.   As far back as a generation ago, the New Yorker cartoonist, Saul Steinberg, was skewering the growing tendency of people to dine on the dash.

8.   --A growing tendency of wages to begin outpacing gains in productivity.

9.   But part of the challenge, Leonard said, arises from a growing tendency among younger Protestants to think of themselves as nondenominational.