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

However, surveys tend to be very resource intensive, and this often forces researchers to compromise on the scale of the investigation.

A second and very different school of thought emphasizes less what the West did and more what the Soviet Union was.

The parenting programmes supported by UNICEF in some 56 countries tend to focus on psychosocial care and early learning as well as on child health and nutrition.

Some people in pain tend to focus on and exaggerate the pain's threatening meaning, and estimate their own ability to deal with pain as poor.

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

And, unfortunately, such assessments tend to focus on the supposed immobilism that derives from Islamic norms, which obscures knowledge of the real changes that are taking place.

Social decision making While most research on decision making tends to focus on individuals making choices outside of a social context, it is also important to consider decisions that involve social interactions.

While it is true that multiple policy targets tend to increase the political sensitivity of central banks decisions, concentrating only on price stability also has important distributional consequences and political implications.

When our supermarkets have only two or three days' worth of food in them at any one time, often sustainability tends to focus on the energy efficiency of the freezers and on the packaging that the lettuces are wrapped up in.

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.

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Since the true value of long term assets is so hard to estimate, it is human nature to focus on the rate of increase in their observed prices, and to allow one s attention to become fixated on these assets just as their value is increasing very fast.

But such a link was seen in the early part of the twentieth century capitalism, some argued, tends to generate chronic weakness in effective demand due to growing concentration of income, leading to a savings glut, because the very rich save a lot.

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.

International efforts, led by the World Bank and other international donors, have tended to focus on strengthening relations between the state and its citizens in order to achieve Tocquevillian gains that is, operational democracy and effective government.

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.

In fact, while concerns over the eurozone s survival tend to focus on its indebted members, Europe s monetary union is at risk of losing one of the few members that still enjoys a triple A credit rating Finland.

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.

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.

Simple propaganda lacks credibility and thus is counterproductive.