Given Chrétien's known tendency to create new stories and characters, being the first to mention the hero Lancelot and his love affair with Queen Guinevere for example, the name might also be entirely invented.

While the number of regions is somewhat stable ( the only modification to the original set is the separation of Molise from Abruzzo ), there has been a tendency in later years to create new provinces, such as Crotone, Verbania, Lodi, Biella, Lecco and others.

The Roman playwright Plautus is famous for his tendency to make up and change the meaning of words to create puns in Latin.

The task of Humanistic therapy is to create a relational environment where this tendency might flourish.

In higher education especially, the increasing tendency is to create a Virtual Learning Environment ( VLE ) ( which is sometimes combined with a Management Information System ( MIS ) to create a Managed Learning Environment ) in which all aspects of a course are handled through a consistent user interface standard throughout the institution.

Excessive feelings of hubris have a tendency to create conflict and sometimes terminating close relationships, which has led it to be understood as one of the few emotions without any clear positive or adaptive functions ( Rhodwalt, et al.

Brazilian pepper, or Florida holly ( Schinus terebinthifolius ), has also wreaked havoc on the Everglades, exhibiting a tendency to spread rapidly and to crowd out native species of plants as well as to create inhospitable environments for native animals.

This tendency is considered normal in children, but in adults can be a symptom of psychopathy or a thought disorder ( indicative of a psychotic mental illness, such as schizophrenia ) People with autism also may create neologisms.

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.

More transparently, differing phonological distinctions between a speaker's first language and English create a tendency to neutralize such distinctions in English, and differences in the inventory or distribution of sounds may cause substitutions of native sounds in the place of difficult English sounds and / or simple deletion.

It can merely be said in general that the golah, the Jews living in compact masses in various parts of Babylon, tended gradually to unite and create an organization, and that this tendency, together with the high regard in which the descendants of the house of David living in Babylon were held, brought it about that a member of this house was recognized as " head of the golah.

Equally importantly, through the introduction by Yeats, via Ezra Pound, of elements of the Noh theatre of Japan, a tendency to mythologise quotidian situations, and a particularly strong focus on writings in dialects of Hiberno-English, the Abbey was to create a style that held a strong fascination for future Irish dramatists.

The series ' tendency to create puns and technology ahead of their time is extensively satirized.

There is a tendency at every HQ to create their own reports in the absence of detailed guidelines.

Equally importantly, through the introduction by Yeats, via Ezra Pound, of elements of the Noh theatre of Japan, a tendency to mythologise quotidian situations, and a particularly strong focus on writings in dialects of Hiberno-English, the Abbey was to create a style that held a strong fascination for future Irish dramatists.

It is a collection of essays taken from Les Lettres nouvelles, examining the tendency of contemporary social value systems to create modern myths.

Indian pitches have had tendency to support spin and the spin quartet exploited this to create collapses in opposing batting line-ups.

At the same time some genres were forbidden ( particularly Christian church-songs ), and the tendency to create huge regional choirs with big groups singing each melodic part damaged the improvisatory nature of Georgian folk music.

Some people prefer this method because full on cheek piercings have the tendency to leak or secrete lymph fluid, which has a saliva-like texture and can create an unpleasant odor.

Believing that complexity had a tendency to create cacophony, which ruined the music, Gregory I kept things very simple with the chant.

* Like other economic experts around the world in the 1930s, Bonnet was disturbed by the implications of the increasing tendency in Germany towards protectionism, currency manipulation, use of " blocked accounts " for foreign businesses in Germany and foreign holders of German debt, autarky, a growing etatism in the German economy, and the German drive to create their own economic zone in Europe.

was based on the Dahlgren system ( e. g. Chase 1995, Rudall 1997 ) and when polyphyly was discovered the tendency was to create new families out of each identified clade.

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.

This trend runs in parallel with the tendency towards outsourcing in larger corporations, and may serve to strengthen small business ' capacity to compete with their larger competitors capable of setting up offshore locations, or of arriving at major contracts with offshore companies.

Whereas most organofluorine compounds may not release F < sup >−</ sup > because of the strength of the carbon – fluorine bond and its tendency to strengthen as more fluorine atoms are added to a carbon, some compounds do, such as methoxyflurane.

The overall effect of the CNS was to strengthen the tendency of " indigenous " Congolese to differentiate between Tutsi from Hutu, and lump together all Tutsi Banyarwanda as " Banyamulenge ".

Research has generally shown a tendency to create a more prestigious past to the country, and to strengthen the claims and legitimacy of its rulers.

Sadly Alfaro too was confronted a dissident tendency inside its own party, directed by its General Leonidas Plaza and constituted by the upper middle class of Guayaquil.

Electronegativity, symbol < span class =" nounderlines "> χ </ span >, is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom or a functional group to attract electrons ( or electron density ) towards itself.

The tendency of communism was far more greater and deeper in East Pakistan than the West, and had massive support in poor, working class, and peasant circles on the issues of Bengali nationalism and Bengali Language Movement.

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.

Marx and Engels held the view that the consciousness of those who earn a wage or salary ( the " working class " in the broadest Marxist sense ) would be moulded by their " conditions " of " wage-slavery ", leading to a tendency to seek their freedom or " emancipation " by overthrowing ownership of the means of production by capitalists, and consequently, overthrowing the state that upheld this economic order.

Theorists such as Ralf Dahrendorf have noted the tendency toward an enlarged middle class in modern Western societies, particularly in relation to the necessity of an educated work force in technological economies.

Noticing Garfield's tendency to stammer, Patri assigned him to a speech therapy class taught by a charismatic teacher named Margaret O ' Ryan.

In Statism and Anarchy, Mikhail Bakunin identified a " statist " tendency within the socialist movement and contrasted it with anarchist socialism, arguing that Karl Marx's theory of transition from capitalism to socialism in which the working class seized state power in a Dictatorship of the proletariat would eventually lead to a usurpation of power by the state apparatus acting in its own self-interest.

The main body of the book treats Florida's creative class theory in an introductory and neutral tone, but in a theoretical " postscript " chapter, the author criticizes Florida's tendency to " whitewash " the negative externalities associated with creative city development.

During this process, PCdoB ranged from an approach that pointed to the class struggle as responsible for the fundamental changes that occurred in the Soviet regime, while on the other hand, it showed a economistic tendency, placing the problems of socialism around the development of productive forces.

However, within this chamber, Phocion's tendency to strong opposition relegated him to a solitary stand against the entire political class.

Althusser proposed a ' new definition ' of philosophy as " class struggle in theory "... marxism had proper signification ( and original " problematic ") only insofar as it was the theory of the tendency towards communism, and in view of its realization.

In particular, they rejected the view that since the turn of the century there had been an intensification in class struggle, that the world economy was either " stagnant " or demonstrated a " tendency towards stagnation " in the imperialist heartlands, which the League had summarised as marking a " pre-revolutionary period ".

The militants from this tendency focus their activities, whether propaganda or intervention, within the working class.

German data show that there is a tendency towards this orientation among young people, in the economically rather secure public service, and in the managerial middle class ( Pappi and Terwey 1982 ).

Lovestone was a close adherent of the Pepper-Ruthenberg tendency, which was to be centered in New York City and to favor united-front political action in a " class Labor Party ", as opposed to the Foster-Cannon group, which tended to be centered in Chicago and were most concerned with building a radicalized American Federation of Labor through a boring-from-within policy.

Peppermint Patty's bad grades are possibly exacerbated by her tendency to sleep through class.

Trotsky argued that his tendency, the Left Opposition, represented the internationalist traditions of the working class.

This tendency was a legacy of the Congress Youth League led by Muziwakhe Lembede, the Unity Movement of South Africa and the Mangaliso Sobulkhwe-led Pan-Africanist Congress that linked continental and global working class struggle with South Africa's national oppression of Black people.

In a February 2007 op-ed in Le Monde, Régis Debray criticized the tendency of the whole French political class to move toward the right-wing of politics.

This was an attempt to encourage a ' class war ' in the countryside but it did not materialise, mainly because the peasants were not resentful of ' kulaks ' ( rich peasants ) as there was a tendency for all peasants to have the same interests ( for example, their own land ownership ).

Batroc's stereotypical accent (" Batroc ze Leapair "), and funny name ( Batroc resembles " Batrachia ", a older name for Anura, the animal class to which frogs belong ), along with his clumsy vocabulary with which he has the tendency to insert whole French words ( which are sometimes erroneous, ex.