1.   But they were much more readily negotiable through association, which was already a basic general tendency in most other social activities.

2.   Can you discern an editorial leaning or tendency in the work they accept?

3.   Hitherto the instrumental approach to law has been criticized as inadequate to provide a coherent explanation for contradictory tendencies in legal developments.

4.   Modern bureaucracies had also developed partly as a result of democratic tendencies in the political sphere.

5.   Some tendencies in human behaviour were encouraged, others repressed, and the results were both pleasant and unpleasant.

6.   This proliferating self-examination, however, has often been seen as an unlikeable, irresponsible tendency in contemporary literature.

7.   Nor did that tendency in itself inevitably mean loss of royal control.

8.   It is also a fourteenth century church and shows Romanesque tendencies in its sculptural decoration.

9.   Aleksandr Nikitenko believed that Valuev had embarked on an enormous plan... to destroy any tendencies in literature which he considers harmful.