Another development is the increasing tendency of military generals to speak out of turn on strategic issues and undercut diplomatic strategy.

In developing countries it is estimated that half of all urban water supply systems are metered and the tendency is increasing.

Consequences The Military Academy Incident and the Aizawa Incident were indicative of the increasing politicization and political polarization of the Japanese military, and an increasing tendency to resolve political differences through force.

The language of the 1947 and 1951 treaties apparently reflects the increasing tendency to regard most treaties as surviving the outbreak of war.

All the rates had a tendency to decrease in 2001 when compared to 2000, with the exception of chronic diseases of digestive systems, whose rate in increasing.

The effect of structural adjustment programmes had also led to increasing privatization in general and the growing tendency to outsource tasks which had been the prerogative of the State.

That tendency remains dominant.

Now we have the reverse tendency.

Those defenders of the solemn promise of never again can and should support the increasing tendency for the two traditions, HRsL and IHL, to converge in a technically sound and practically useful and feasible manner.

There was no persistent tendency to deflation.

Madison (2006) has criticized the tendency of 3C training for its tendency to simplify migration and cross cultural processes into stages and phases.

The employment tendency was very strong in 2007.

Okay, this tendency we have, this seemingly natural tendency we have, towards isolation, towards keeping to ourselves, crashes head first into our modern world.

The tendency to mainstream Western standards is becoming clear.

The same tendency can also be noted among mothers.

Referring to Law No. 53 2000, she said that the Committee of Experts of the International Labour Organization had expressed concern about the increasing tendency of women to accept atypical employment contracts she would appreciate gender disaggregated data by contract type.

Second, all the individuals have a tendency to line up.

So this tendency towards order is not always a good thing.

Something I love about Egyptian blogs is our tendency to complain.

But a tendency toward a bubble need not become a reality.

Also, the tendency to overweigh small probabilities and underweigh large ones.

This has a tendency to restrain innovation in the public sector sphere.

And I think we have a tendency to make each other feel guilty.

Such a tendency contributed significantly to the Asian financial crisis of 1997 98.

Tocqueville believed that there are no effective long term constraints on this tendency.

In chemistry and physics, volatility is the tendency of a substance to vaporize.

The state and other external actors have a tendency to retain meaningful power.

While there was a business cycle, no perceptible tendency toward chronic demand weakness appeared.

But that has not altered Americans tendency to generalize invidiously about peoples and countries.

Unfortunately, however, that movement is marked by a tendency to look to the past.

The growing tendency to allocate ever increasing resources and efforts to emergency activities was worrying. The funds and programmes were not relief agencies their purpose was to promote long term development, and it was only in that sense that they could participate in the transition from relief to development.

Noting that the negative effects of the Internet on the drug problem are increasing with the continued dependence of youth on that vital source of information and the growing tendency by criminal groups to use modern technologies in their activities, as well as in the promotion of their activities,

And it's to help all of us, myself included, to counteract the tendency to otherize.

The change in priorities and outsiders' tendency to overlook it is not difficult to understand.

His tendency to view Africa through an American lens is thus both understandable and inevitable.

It is distinguished from genetic variability, which describes the tendency of genetic characteristics to vary.

Indeed, the tendency toward informal consultations among Council members had helped streamline the Council's deliberations.

Increasing transparency

In the operational activities of the United Nations for development, we support the Secretary General's emphasis on increasing the level of inter agency coordination in the delivery of technical cooperation, but we are concerned about the inadequacy of oversight arrangements and about the tendency towards concentration on governance and human rights.

The tendency is either excessive restraint (Europe) or a diffusion of the effort (the United States).

But, having gone too far in deregulating markets, we must resist a natural tendency to overcompensate.

However, one model was recalled in 2007 due to a tendency for the hinges to break.

There is a tendency in some media to generalize and misrepresent every incident involving Kosovo Serbs.

There is a growing tendency for Courts to rule upon compensation for the victims of trafficking.

There is a growing tendency of courts to rule upon compensation for the victims of trafficking.