Moreover, private and public sector debt levels tend to be much lower in the emerging economies.

When such firms make acquisition announcements, the stock market returns accompanying the announcement, which reflect the market s judgment of the acquisition, tend to be lower and are more likely to be negative.

Meanwhile, direct taxation of corporations and individuals has tended to decline despite the moot claim that lower direct taxation ensures investment and growth.

But it would be more accurate to say that there is global investment shortfall, with investment trending downwards despite the upward trend in global growth.

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

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

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.

This was the result of the steady decline in national income.

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.

However, this decrease owes more to a rise in the world s population than it does to the slight reduction in the actual number of hungry people (from about 980 million to 852 million today).

Declines occurred in all three leading ethnic communities from 39 to 35 among Shiites, from 20 to 6 among Sunnis, and from 11 to 5 among Kurds.

We are witnessing a growing perception that traditional conflicts are on a downward trend in the world.

The trend remains downward, irrespective of the definition of armed conflict applied.

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.

This will drive down interest rates and lead to an economic rebound.

The decrease in the electrochemical gradient causes a reduction in the electrical signals going to the brain.

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

This fall in recorded output was largely the result of depressed world prices.

The lower implementation rate during 2004 was attributable to a combination of factors.

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.

The euro headed lower right from the beginning of 2009 and it was even outpaced by sterling.

The operating income that such firms generate, relative to the value of their assets, tends to be lower.