Sentences with phrase «natural tendencies toward»

But starting in 1984, when I felt I had gotten a grip on the real world, my natural tendencies toward abstraction began to reemerge.

Catnip appears to be a dis - inhibitor, which means that a cat's natural tendencies toward aggression, playfulness or craziness will get magnified.

But what exactly are the natural tendencies toward religion grounded in human personhood?

Most entrepreneurs have a natural tendency toward innovation and responsiveness.

The second natural tendency toward religion springs from the human capacity to recognize problems and our desire to solve them.

There's something about the holidays that brings my natural tendency toward nostalgia right to the surface.

There's an affected fear, a natural tendency toward the cynical.

But it's sort of a chicken - and - egg problem, because it's been unclear whether some people have a natural tendency toward alcohol abuse, or if alcohol itself has an effect on the brain,» said Schindler.

But as with the Basidiomycota, the natural tendency toward symmetry creates the slingshot effect that propels the droplet.

My natural tendency toward claustrophobia (and being a control freak) made the initial few minutes of floating a little nerve wracking.

An ancient spiritual science, yoga focuses on the natural tendency toward health and self - healing.

Naturopathic medicine centers on the philosophy that the best medicine promotes the body's natural tendency toward health and self - healing.

It's a struggle to overcome his natural tendency toward destruction and violent tendencies.»

We might suspect that there is a natural tendency toward a right skew in equities — after all, a stock can only go down by 100 %, while it can appreciate by more than that.

Just as some people have a natural tendency toward shyness, so do some dogs.

Early socialisation and training are absolutely critical to a Lhasa's success as a family member, so that he can properly direct his natural tendency toward wariness.

So have you boffins managed to sort out whether the CO2 released from the pursuit of the good life can warm the planet sufficiently to overmatch the natural tendency toward glaciation?

Years of experience in private practice and as an individual and group therapy leader have inspired Vicki to work from the perspective that we all have a natural tendency toward health.

Not exact matches

In short, the human condition entails genuinely natural capacities for religion, which these four tendencies often direct toward the actualized practice of religion.

The natural tendencies are, on the one hand, toward a world - denying spirituality that views religion and politics as absolutely irrelevant to each other, or, on the other hand, toward an accommodationist stance that uses one to «legitimize» the other.

To check any tendency in us toward declining our responsibilities, God has reinforced our natural intelligence with revealed Truths (Surah XXIV, 35).

The natural tendency of the human being is toward domination and slavery, even though the heart might think it desires freedom.

The natural athlete has a natural tendency to tire toward the end of the back nine and to give way to un-Mickey-Wright-like giggles, but with her perfect coordination and her Palmer - method body English, Beth will be a killer when she's a seasoned 11.

In each study, researchers assessed a participant's dispositional — or natural — tendency toward optimism and pessimism, and then examined whether optimists were less likely to brace for the worst as they awaited uncertain news, compared to pessimists.

His natural tendency was toward metabolic syndrome, in spite of being very diligent about his diet and exercise.

The natural tendency in this pose is to push the knees toward the floor in the belief that this will increase the stretch of the inner thighs and groins.

Combine financial firms» relentless marketing of new and often gimmicky investment products with investors» natural tendency to gravitate toward The Next New Thing, and it's hardly surprising that over time our portfolios can become an unwieldy hodgepodge of investments bought on the spur of the moment that don't function as a coherent whole.

Positive feedback loops and natural human tendencies toward herd behavior keep the process going until a point of excess is reached and the debt becomes a major problem.

My natural tendency was toward color and abstraction.

Having taken steps toward protecting them from the consequences of their own continuous bellicosity, will the bonobos» better - known kin now be able to learn something from them that might temper their «natural» tendencies?

Perhaps we're in a slow transition toward a new definition of security including security from natural hazards, along with the human species» darker tendencies.

The appeal states that «a Natural State, sometimes idealized by movements with a tendency to look toward the past, does not exist and has probably never existed since man's first appearance in the biosphere, insofar as humanity has always progressed by increasingly harnessing Nature to its needs and not the reverse.»

The tendency toward organizational self - service is in part a natural outcome of compulsory membership, something best understood under the rubric of Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty.