On that count, Asia tends to be a status quo continent, while Europe is a revisionist one.

In our globalized age, we have lost the privilege and, paradoxically, the virtue of ignorance.

Oil rich countries tend to save a lot. Countries with serious internal crises or conflicts tend to save little.

In addition, the island's proximity to India was also an advantage.

The social problems of the day tend to be more and more complicated.

With prices falling, the imperative to act inevitably tends to recede.

This tended to keep the numbers printed and sold, low.

Statistical categories often tend to become social categories.

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Nationalist excesses have tended to lead Europe to catastrophic wars.

But special cases have a habit of multiplying.

But the carry trade has tended to produce positive returns.

The genre copied the scary Japanese ghost eyes.

Women lean forward in their chairs, dabbing their eyes with tissues.

Thirdly, independent evidence tends to corroborate the allegation of torture.

As a result, they tend to vary between countries.

The media tends to move like market sentiment.

Large banks tend to lend to large companies in order to save costs.

Today, many Asian countries are choosing the latter option.

Cultural barriers are apt to distort what is heard.

Ad hoc opposition groups tend to coalesce around specific issues.

North Korean films tend to portray their communist or revolutionary themes.

This extended corona is a unique feature of Uranus.

Policy as a whole over the entire euro zone is too deflationary.

Historians who use the word tend to reserve it to pre Napoleonic Holland.

Finally, caves that are larger tend to be more complex.

But overall, developing countries tend to invest primarily in their own region.

History also suggests that financial crises tend to morph over time.

This is an endemic feature of the modern global economy.

Prolonged periods of strain tend to weaken the fabric of institutional cooperation.

Coups always tend to exacerbate problems, not solve them, and this one is no exception.

Molecular weights of the various penicillinases tend to cluster near 50 kiloDaltons.

A survey of households conducted in two townships in China confirmed that the division of labour and gender specific decision making patterns in households changed as the source and structure of household income changed.

Coleman and colleagues found that young females tend to be more easily threatened by intense male courtship, and these females tend to choose males based on traits not dependent on male courtship intensity.

Europeans lean toward dialogue and incentives, the US toward isolation and penalties.

Italy, however, chose to squander that interest rate advantage.

Simple propaganda lacks credibility and thus is counterproductive.

Sudan s UN ambassador has called for a draft whose language is more Sudan friendly.

Weak states, of course, tend to be cynical about China s growing might.

The life of women under such traditional arrangements tended to be tightly circumscribed.

In more concentrated markets, banks tend to offer worse terms to customers.

Indeed, without adequate regulation, they are prone to excess.

Background Before the development of modern nationalism, loyalty tended to focus on a city or a particular leader.

However, they tended to change their positions in the General Assembly owing to political pressure.

That would provide the United Nations with the benefit of a higher credit rating, which would result in a lower cost for borrowing.