That is, an increase in the willingness to lend tends to increase the value of the collateral, and also improves the borrowers performance, thereby encouraging a relaxation of credit criteria.

Revolutions tend to confront new governments with steeply rising social demands (for wage increases and higher welfare spending, for example) at a time of capital flight, financial turmoil, and deep disruptions of production.

There has been a longstanding discussion about whether new derivative markets, which provide such financial hedging, tend to increase preexisting financial markets volatility.

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

The dilemma is that, whereas fiscal consolidation is necessary to prevent an unsustainable increase in the spread on sovereign bonds, the short run effects of raising taxes and cutting government spending tend to be contractionary.

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.

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.

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.

SWFs tend to invest in foreign markets more when times are good and security prices are more likely to be inflated, and to divest during market downturns, when divestment offer implies lower than fundamental value security prices.

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.

There has been a longstanding discussion about whether new derivative markets, which provide such financial hedging, tend to increase preexisting financial markets volatility. The consensus is that they do not.

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.

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.