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Example sentences for "tendency towards"

  • The Pawnees and Kiowas are tall and mesocephalic, with a tendency towards brachycephaly.

  • The Malay languages, which form part of the Malayo-Polynesian family, are of agglutinative structure, with prefixes and suffixes; by the introduction of infixes they have a tendency towards flexion.

  • The Polynesians seem to be leptorhinians, the Melanesians with the Australians show a tendency towards platyrhiny.

  • The phenomena of heredity which make their appearance even in old age afford us proofs that a tendency towards a certain mode of cell-multiplication continues to regulate the growth of the organism during the whole of its life.

  • Our hearts swell with generous indignation, when we hear the religion of Jesus Christ reproached with a tendency towards oppression.

  • In the thirteenth chapter of this work we said, "The heart is filled with generous indignation when we hear the religion of Jesus Christ reproached with a tendency towards oppression.

  • The life in these establishments attained a high level of comfort according to the standard of the times and the number of restrictive precepts suggests a tendency towards luxury.

  • Hence it is not surprising that when in the later Vedic period a tendency towards monotheism (but monotheism of a pantheistic type) appears, the supreme position is given to none of the old deities but to a new figure, Prajâpati.

  • The admission of these hermits to the order is probably historical and explains the presence among the Buddha's disciples of a tendency towards self-mortification of which he himself did not wholly approve.

  • It may be that, in his own immediate circle at Paris, there is a tendency towards Atheism; but, assuredly, no such tendency exists in the highest and most scientific minds of modern Europe.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    became interested; cannot sleep; catch some; common soldier; deep shadow; easily distinguished; felt myself; good fellowship; held until his death; her neck; like they; little interest; mixed together; must begin; not with; renew the; representative institutions; sent forward; spiritual beings; tendency toward; tendency towards; vegetable matter; what had taken place