I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.

Obviously, if colloidal particles bear charges of opposite sign or, if one kind is charged and the other kind is not, the attraction will be intensified and the tendency to agglomerate will be greatly reinforced.

There has been a tendency on the part of many American linguists to assume that a phonemic transcription will automatically be the best possible orthography and that the only real problem will then be the social one of securing acceptance.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

Since one fluke always protrudes up from the set anchor, there is a great tendency of the rode to foul the anchor as the vessel swings due to wind or current shifts.

There were a few reasons for this, one of which was political, as the kings of England preferred to appoint bishops from the south to the northern bishoprics, hoping to counter the northern tendency towards separatism.

29 .</ ref > This tendency to identify one specific underlying reality made up of a material thing constitutes the bulk of the contributions for which Anaximenes is most famed.

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

In practical statistical analysis, the terms are often used before one has chosen even a preliminary form of analysis: thus an initial objective might be to " choose an appropriate measure of central tendency ".

This " knowledge " then leads to a tendency towards a binary opposition of the orient vs. the occident, where one is defined in opposition to the other, and they are unequal in value.

In particular, it presents evidence that the tendency to produce one or the other sex of child is, to some extent, heritable.

# The organism has one basic tendency and striving-to actualize, maintain and enhance the experiencing organism.

While in Italy the tendency was to give scale by increasing the number of panels, in France the contrary seems to have been the rule ; and one of the great doors at Fontainebleau, which is in two leaves, is entirely carried out as if consisting of one great panel only.

Euripides sometimes ' resolved ' the two syllables of the iamb (˘¯) into three syllables (˘˘˘) and this tendency increased so steadily over time that the number of resolved feet in a play can be understood to indicate the approximate date of composition ( see Extant plays below for one scholar's list of resolutions per hundred trimeters ).

The general American tendency was to simplify the plots borrowed from novels and plays so that they could be dealt with in one reel and with the minimum of titling and the maximum of straightforward narrative continuity, but there were exceptions to this.

Teacher Aaron Sofocleous praised his music skills and encouraged his chaotic style, even if one school report noted " He has great ability, but must guard against a tendency to show off ".

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.

Its destruction is still a matter of debate among historians, and one modern tendency tends to believe that Tartessos was never a city, but a culture complex.

In contrast, the Coulomb repulsion of the electrons, i. e. the tendency that they try to avoid each other by this repulsion, would lead to an antisymmetric orbital function ( i. e. with the-sign ) of these two particles, and complementary to a symmetric spin function ( i. e. with the + sign, one of the so-called " triplet functions ").

However, this means that at this stage they will both have high base voltages and therefore a tendency to switch on, and inevitable slight asymmetries will mean that one of the transistors is first to switch on.

There are two main perspectives on the origins and basis of nationalism, one is the primordialist perspective that describes nationalism as a reflection of the ancient and perceived evolutionary tendency of humans to organize into distinct grouping based on an affinity of birth ; the other is the modernist perspective that describes nationalism as a recent phenomenon that requires the structural conditions of modern society.

There are two major bodies of thought on the causes of nationalism, one is the modernist perspective that describes nationalism as a recent phenomenon that requires the structural conditions of modern society, in order to exist ; the other is the primordialist perspective that describes nationalism as a reflection of the ancient and perceived evolutionary tendency of humans to organize into distinct grouping based on an affinity of birth.

* Placebo effect, the tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work

Does probability measure the real, physical tendency of something to occur or is it a measure of how strongly one believes it will occur, or does it draw on both upon both these elements?

Though the Baron still takes sadistic enjoyment in the suffering of others, he is portrayed as somewhat flamboyant, pompous and self-indulgent, with a tendency to speak in iambic pentameter when the mood strikes him.

The local critic said he " was particularly outstanding, his one fault being a tendency to speak too fast on one or two occasions ".

While Dieudonné could reasonably speak on Bourbaki's encyclopedic tendency and tradition, it may be doubted — after innumerable frank tais-toi, Dieudonné!

Bright publicly deprecated the popular tendency to regard Cobden and himself as the chief movers in the agitation, and Cobden told a Rochdale audience that he always stipulated that he should speak first, and Bright should follow.

( Hallam read a paper on ' Whether the poems of Shelley have an immoral tendency '; Tennyson was to speak on ' Ghosts ', but was so nervous that he tore up most of what he had written and threw it on the fire.

The ' tendency ' that I speak of involved extricating the pure life which is dormant in our bodies.

However, he has a tendency to act or speak without thinking, which can lead him into trouble.

He is also socially inept, having a tendency to speak very rapidly, often babbling about tangential subjects in the middle of technical briefings ( before someone impatiently brings Marshall back on to the topic at hand ).

He was seen as stern but honest, and had a tendency to speak in a fashion that some found amusing.

Bilingual teachers are often employed in the lower elementary grades, to expedite this goal, but the tendency toward children learning to speak only English, mingled with occasional Spanish, remains dominant.

They appear physically human, but have a tendency to speak and act in highly precise and mechanical ways.

* A 2009 Dutch TV ad by the Eneco utility, promoting wind energy, poked fun at the Dutch people's tendency to speak Dunglish.

He was said to have aligned himself " on the wrong side of a church fight ," having apparently refused to bow to pressure from the " white residents of Princeton " that he cease his tendency to " speak out against social injustice.

English is classed as a stress-timed language, which means that there is a tendency to speak so that the stressed syllables come at roughly equal intervals.

" They have a tendency to speak in perfect unison and have exactly the same thought at exactly the same time.

This is the most common form of SLI, in which the child ’ s most obvious problems are a tendency to speak in short, simplified sentences, with omission of some grammatical features, such as past tense-ed.

However, since everyone knows that dogs can't speak, people tend to interpret his speech as their own personal thoughts, a tendency which Gaspode regularly uses to wangle food from passers by.

Despite the fact that most of these immigrants were modernized and able to speak more than one European language, there was a persistent tendency to portray them not only as primitive savages but also sexual threats against white women.

Further criticizing feminism's libertarian streak, Carlen suggests that feminists injunction to allow women to speak for themselves reveals a separatist tendency, arguing that what feminists call for is merely good social science and should be extended to let all classes of humans speak for themselves.

Despite these limitations, ( most the result of an unfortunate tendency to speak his mind ) he almost always achieves his objectives and enjoys the professional respect of the fearsome Confederate General Patton.