The tendency to reciprocate can even generalize so people become more helpful toward others in general after being helped.

The elbow of one has a mysterious tendency to become jammed in the jaws of the other.

In some areas, the Militant tendency were held to be systematically targeting weak local party branches in safe seat areas in order to have their own candidates selected, and thus become MPs.

The iron law of oligarchy, introduced by Robert Michels, describes the inevitable tendency of hierarchical organizations to become oligarchic in their decision making.

* Jamming ( knot ), the tendency of knots to become difficult to untie

Some natural languages have become naturally " standardized " by children's natural tendency to correct for illogical grammar structures in their parents ' language, which can be seen in the development of pidgin languages into creole languages ( as explained by Steven Pinker in The Language Instinct ), but this is not the case in many languages, including constructed languages such as Esperanto, where strict rules are in place as an attempt to consciously remove such irregularities.

The term derived from the tendency of some of these bands ' members to become strongly emotional during performances.

An attitude develops as the response strength ( the tendency to respond ) in the presences of a group of stimuli become stable.

The meat of normal uncastrated roosters has a tendency to become coarse, stringy and tough as the birds age.

It was enacted in the era of " trusts " and of " combinations " of businesses and of capital organized and directed to control of the market by suppression of competition in the marketing of goods and services, the monopolistic tendency of which had become a matter of public concern.

Because these are mechanically identical to live rounds, which are intended to be loaded once, fired and then discarded, drill rounds have a tendency to become significantly worn and damaged with repeated passage through magazines and firing mechanisms, and must be frequently inspected to ensure that these are not so degraded as to be unusable — for example the casings can become torn or misshapen and snag on moving parts, or the bullet can become separated and stay in the breech when the case is ejected.

In 1771 he was called to become involved in in politics ; the parlements of France had been dissolved, and a new method of administering justice devised by Maupeou, which was in itself commendable as tending to the better and quicker administration of justice, but pernicious as exhibiting a tendency to over-centralization, and as abolishing the hereditary " nobility of the robe ", which, with all its faults, had from its nature preserved some independence, and been a check on the royal power.

Later the ghost shows how his success in business made him become obsessive and develop a workaholic tendency.

* An I is essentially a process, and not a state, and this process is an in-dividuation ( it is a process of psychic individuation ) as the tendency to become-one, that is, to become indivisible.

This tendency of returns to reverse over long horizons ( i. e., losers become winners ) is yet another contradiction of EMH.

Any real tendency to the secessionist cause, however, could be refuted when he turned down Virginia Governor John Letcher's offer to become chief of ordnance for the Virginia Provisional Army.

These can be flat or braided, but both varieties have a tendency to become slippery when wet.

As it is we shall find a continuous molecule manifesting attractive and repulsive forces ; attraction corresponding to the tendency of the self-preservations to become perfect, repulsion to the frustration of this.

There is a tendency for birds to become larger with increasing latitude, the southern subspecies being larger than those further north the exception being the Tasmanian form which is small.

This is a common occurrence with influenza viruses: there is a tendency for pathogenic viruses to become less lethal with time, providing more living hosts.

Historian Larry Tagg described Hill as " always emotional ... so high strung before battle that he had an increasing tendency to become unwell when the fighting was about to commence.

It is not uncommon for these dogs to become moody or destructive if not properly stimulated and exercised, as they have a tendency to bore easily and will often create their own fun when left alone to entertain themselves.

Such " clean slate " decrees were intended to redress the tendency of debtors, in ancient societies, to become hopelessly in debt to their creditors, thus accumulating most of the arable land into the control of a wealthy few.

In addition, rodders in the 1950s routinely bored them out by ( to ); due to the tendency of blocks to crack as a result of overheating, a perennial problem, this is no longer recommended.

Roman cursive or informal handwriting started out as a derivative of the capital letters, though the tendency to write quickly and efficiently made the letters less precise.

Gardeners can use the tendency of climbing plants to grow quickly.

A tendency to conceive ambitious projects, only to quickly abandon them, became a feature of Bizet's Rome years ; in addition to Carmen Saeculare he considered and discarded at least five opera projects, two attempts at a symphony, and a symphonic ode on the theme of Ulysses and Circe.

The terms " balls out " and " balls to the wall " derive from the tendency of a governor's spherical weights to fly outward under centripetal force ; thus, the more quickly the governed device operates, the further outwards the weights will travel.

The musicologist Christopher Palmer was censorious of those who to sought to characterise Bliss's music as " an early tendency to enfant terribilisme yielding very quickly to a compromise with the Establishment and a perpetuating of the Elgar tradition ".

Falco was given the nickname " Footsteps " for his failure to complete passes and his tendency to dump the ball quickly to avoid the contact his weak offensive line was unable to hold off.

A felt tip marker can be used as they are convenient and tend not to dry up as quickly ; marking blue in the form of dye or ink has a tendency to dry in the containers and become unusable quickly.

It is impossible to tell without expensive and lengthy tests whether these errors occurred, but they will lead to significantly weaker dies and a higher tendency to deteriorate quickly.

Sometimes, the biscuit is dunked into the tea and eaten quickly due to the biscuit's tendency to disintegrate when wet.

Groups divide to form other groups much less often than organisms reproduce to form other organisms, so group selection for altruism would be unlikely to override the tendency of each group to quickly lose its altruists through natural selection favoring cheaters.

Due to soufflés ' tendency to collapse quickly upon removal from the oven, the media frequently depicts the dessert in sitcoms, cartoons, children's programs and movies as a source of humor.

* The process of simulated annealing is often used to reduce the " random walk " behavior in the early part of the sampling process ( i. e. the tendency to move slowly around the sample space, with a high amount of autocorrelation between samples, rather than moving around quickly, as is desired ).

Its tendency to quickly colonize open areas with little competition, such as sites of forest fires and forest clearings, makes it a clear example of a pioneer species.

The tendency of Ström founded the daily Arbetarposten ( Workers ' Mail ) and quickly unified itself with the " SKP " of Karl Kilbom and Nils Flyg.

A hypocritical and seemingly superficial man, Mitică expresses himself through either platitudes or clichés he believes are clever, and, illustrating a tendency Caragiale first recorded in his Moftul Român, quickly dismisses all important things he is confronted with.

But they do have a tendency to age quickly, which creates a market for brandies meant for near-term consumption.

To avoid a ground loop, the pilot must respond to any turning tendency quickly, while sufficient control authority is available to counteract it.

Any tendency to touch a wingtip to the ground while moving must be quickly counteracted.

The wine-must has tendency to oxidise quickly, a characteristic that can be ignored when used for sherry production.

As this breed is very active, his coat has the tendency to become matted quickly.

The breed also is an easy keeper, that is, it has a tendency to accumulate fat quickly, which helps when the horses are exposed to extreme conditions on a regular basis, but can be a hardship for owners when the horses are kept stabled.

A boxing magazine from the United States then called Medina the gambler's nightmare, because of his tendency to win world featherweight titles, lose them quickly, then regain them just as quick.

The four are quickly involved in chaotic adventures, complicated by the Sawhorse's tendency to race off uncontrolled, and involving a menagerie of beings that includes " Lollies " and their " Pops ," water spirits and kelpies, talking animals and a grumpy grandfather clock.