In spite of his tendency towards high art, he was already known and appreciated as a humorist, and his early companionship with Charles Keene fostered and developed his talent for scholarly caricature.

E. M., who was seven years older than W. G., had always played with a full size bat and so developed a tendency, that he never lost, to hit across the line, the bat being too big for him to " play straight ".

Contrary to Malthus ' predictions and in line with his thoughts on moral restraint, natural population growth in most developed countries has diminished to close to zero, without being held in check by famine or lack of resources, as people in developed nations have shown a tendency to have fewer children.

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Rubinstein also had a tendency to rush in composing his pieces, resulting in good ideas such as those in his Ocean Symphony being developed in less-than-exemplary ways.

The tendency developed in the mid-1970s as the increased power of amplification and sound systems allowed the use of larger and larger venues.

Besides, the tendency of applying a formula of this sort to history is to assume that the elements are developed in a certain regular or necessary order, whereas this may not at all be the case ; but we may find at any epoch the whole mixed, either crossing or co-operative, as in the consciousness of the individual himself.

The tendency developed in the mid-1970s as the increased power of amplification and sound systems allowed the use of larger and larger venues.

In linguistics, the tendency is to use haček ( with no long mark ), largely due to the influence of the Prague School ( particularly on Structuralist linguists who subsequently developed alphabets for previously unwritten languages of the Americas ).

Another tendency developed called the Internationalist Tendency ( IT ).

More enduring inmates introduced during this period were sneering troublemaker Lou Kelly ( Louise Siversen ), who developed from a bit player to becoming a sociopathic wannabe top dog and the series ' main villain, dopey offsider Alice " Lurch " Jenkins ( Lois Collinder ) and streetwise card sharp Lexie Patterson ( Pepe Trevor ), who had a tendency to dress a lot like Boy George until The Freak retaliated against her insolence by cutting her hair.

This is the continuation of the tendency of lenition in Vulgar Latin which developed into the Romance languages.

As the Communist International inspired by the Bolshevik revolution in Russia formed, a Left Communist tendency developed in the Comintern's German, Dutch and Bulgarian sections.

The founder of that tendency was Henri Poincaré ; during the 1930s it was developed by Lefschetz, Hodge and Todd.

While well known for his tendency to strike out, he also developed a patience at the plate which allowed him to walk 100 times in a season twice ( 1993, 1997 ) and to post a career OBP of. 359.

He took no part in the various tendency disputes that developed between 1963 and 1967, except to decry firmer organisational norms developed by his erstwhile supporters.

As they were developed in the 1960s they have been largely superseded by wing and vest type BCs, primary because of their tendency to shift the diver's center of gravity with inflation.

In intellectual terms, Aflaq recast the conservative Arab nationalist thoughts and changed them to reflect a strong revolutionary and progressive tendency which developed in harmony alongside the decolonisation and other events which happened in the Arab world at the time of his life.

Karl Marx developed a version of the law of diminishing returns in his theory of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, described in Volume III of Capital.

Sundback developed an improved version of the C-curity, called the " Plako ", but it too had a strong tendency to pull apart, and was not any more successful than the previous versions.

The SHS was developed as a means of measuring individuals ' tendency to employ excuses or create handicaps as a means to protect one's self-esteem.

By 1941 the party had developed a minority tendency which was grouped around the figures of two leading intellectuals CLR James and Raya Dunayevskaya.

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

Lime white, hard and brilliant, has a tendency to `` jump '' away from the other colors in drying, and also by its capacity to set, to preclude the use of ready-made gradations, so useful in decorative work.

To the Athenians it seems what had to be guarded against was not incompetence but any tendency to use office as a way of accumulating ongoing power.

* Economists use the term " global labor arbitrage " to refer to the tendency of manufacturing jobs to flow towards whichever country has the lowest wages per unit output at present and has reached the minimum requisite level of political and economic development to support industrialization.

The effects of long-term use or misuse include the tendency to cause or worsen cognitive deficits, depression and anxiety.

There is a tendency to use the term in a less strict way, to mean approximately the same thing as " culture " and therefore, the term can more broadly refer to any important and clearly defined human society.

This tendency is illustrated by the use of the chelating agent DOTA, an octadentate ligand.

In Germany there is a growing tendency to use the law on legal guardianship, instead of mental health law, to justify involuntary commitment or treatment.

This etymology was furthered in the Chinese by the tendency of some Chinese translators, notably Kumarajiva, to use the variant Guānshìyīn, literally " he who perceives the world's lamentations " -- wherein lok was read as simultaneously meaning both " to look " and " world " ( Skt.

They used to be pulled mainly by oxen, but in recent years there has been an increasing tendency to use cows ( females ), as farmers often do not own oxen.

Among the criticisms the Kinsey Report received, a particular one addressed the Institute for Sex Research's tendency to use statistical sampling, which facilitated an over-representation of same-sex relationships by other researchers who did not adhere to Kinsey's qualifications of data.

Anarcho-pacifism is a tendency within the anarchist movement which rejects the use of violence in the struggle for social change.

Though the term has fallen into disfavor among botanists as a formal way to categorize " useless " plants, the informal use of the word " weeds " to describe those plants that are deemed worthy of elimination is illustrative of the general tendency of people and societies to seek to alter or shape the course of nature.

Especially during the Fourth Century BC, after the restoration of democracy from oligarchical coups, the Athenians used the drawing of lots for selecting government officers in order to counteract what the Athenians acutely saw as a tendency toward oligarchy in government if a professional governing class were allowed to use their skills for their own benefit.

Without the use of spinning or any gimballing of the thrust, they had a strong tendency to veer sharply off of their intended course.

The domain of ' economics ' is fundamental to considerations of sustainable development, however there has been considerable criticism of the tendency to use the three-domain model of the triple bottom line: economics, environment and social.

Implementations were further hindered by the general tendency of the standard to be verbose, and the common practice of compromising by adopting the sum of all submitted proposals, which often created APIs that were incoherent and difficult to use, even if the individual proposals were perfectly reasonable.

Bradley Belt, former executive director of the PBGC ( the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the federal agency that insures private-sector defined-benefit pension plans in the event of bankrupment ), testified before a congressional hearing in October 2004, “ I am particularly concerned with the temptation, and indeed, growing tendency, to use the pension insurance fund as a means to obtain an interest-free and risk-free loan to enable companies to restructure.

The Court continued to use the bad tendency test during the early twentieth century in cases such as 1919's Abrams v. United States which upheld the conviction of anti-war activists who passed out leaflets encouraging workers to impede the war effort.

Gitlow was decided based on the bad tendency test, but the majority decision acknowledged the validity of the clear and present danger test, yet concluded that its use was limited to Schenck-like situations where the speech was not specifically outlawed by the legislature.

This is demonstrated by the use of the word " tendency " in Schenck itself, a paragraph in Schenck explaining that the success of speech in causing the actual harm was not a prerequisite for conviction, and use of the bad-tendency test in the simultaneous Frohwerk v. United States and Debs v. United States decisions ( both of which cite Schenck without using the words " clear and present danger ").

Discussion since 2004 has been complicated by the tendency of academic and military communities to use the term in different ways, and by its close association with guerrilla warfare, insurgency, terrorism, counterinsurgency, and counterterrorism.