Sentences with phrase «stronger tendencies toward»

On the other hand, there are stronger tendencies toward efficiency in markets where time horizons are short; and where the investment determinations are governed by a very few variables which are simple, understandable and, perhaps, computer programmable.

What we have seen over the last several cycles is a sustained pattern of weaker economic growth (see Exhibit 2) and a strong tendency toward disinflation — meaning inflation that is persistently low or trending lower.

While the authors report having «found little evidence that the strong tendencies toward religious freedom and religious pluralism led to any lack of religious vitality» in the campuses they visited, their account suggests otherwise: faculty and administrators are afraid to offend students by supporting religious «rules and regulations» or by teaching Christian doctrine.

Much Chinese thought has, at least, strong tendencies toward process.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

This isn't hard to understand when you realize that girls have a far stronger tendency toward creating and belonging in community.

The gap may be because women have a stronger tendency toward empathetic concern than men.

with a strong tendency toward saving, not spending.

The further we are away from the mean, the stronger the tendency toward mean - reversion.

Mauboussin's research supports Graham's view that, while some businesses do generate persistently high or low returns on invested capital beyond what chance dictates, there exists a strong tendency toward mean reversion in most businesses.

Dogs being kept outside having a stronger tendency toward aggression toward owners but not toward strangers may be the result of agressive dogs being «banished» outside, or because dogs kept outside my have lower owner involvement and thus correlate with this aggression.

These are distinct from financial motives, because when gambling is induced for financial reasons, it is probably the means of last resort to solve financial problems and goes along with a strong tendency toward the gambler's fallacy — in other words, ignorance.

Not exact matches

Finally, the human need to make what Charles Taylor calls «strong evaluations» works as another tendency toward religion.

The tendency toward intolerance became stronger because of Lenin's theory about the Communist Party as an elite, especially as his successors interpreted it.

Indeed, since the «Chicago school» is no longer strong at Chicago, there is an increasing tendency for the balance to shift toward the second usage of process theology.

If to all the enormous power that the state has anyway you add the power to run the economy, which is what socialism empirically means, the tendency toward creating some sort of totalitarianism becomes extremely strong.

Just think, no matter what, your daughter will always know that she is named after one of the strongest foundational items on this earth, and her aura will always reflect her tendency toward flawlessness.

There are strong echoes here of the Coens» matter - of - fact detachment — echoes especially of True Grit, of course, but overall of their tendency toward surprise strokes of narrative shorthand.

The incentive is not strong enough to override all the tendencies toward goofing off in a room full of students.

The biggest challenges when training Akitas are related to the breed's tremendous strength, his tendency to be strong - willed, his typical aggression toward other dogs of the same sex, and his hunting instincts, which make him a threat to smaller animals.

These dogs are typically intelligent, which certainly eases the process, but their tendency toward stubbornness might be difficult for a less strong - willed owner to deal with.

I have a strong love of abstract art and formal ideas as well but am wary of a tendency toward too - reductive pursuits that ultimately steer artists away from powerful and volatile subject matter, ending up with a safe sort of boring visual Muzak.»

I also see another strong tendency among young curators toward making shows that take the proposal of a fiction as their starting point.

Strong shadows and the representation of a particular time and place suggest the distinctly American scene so memorialized by Hopper, while attention to flattened surface planes and a rectilinear pictorial structure reveals Diebenkorn's underlying tendency toward abstraction.

Slovic cited research by Roy Baumeister and Brad Bushman suggesting that, when it comes to messages, «bad is stronger than good» — a finding that helps explain the tendency toward negative advertising in political campaigning....

In order to create this infectious attitude, I suppose you could say that we've leveraged two key traits found in most successful salespeople — their inherent tendency toward competitiveness and their strong desire to help others, whether that be their clients or an underserved population.