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.

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.

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.

Relations with Iran tend to be tense as a result of a failed coup in 1981 which Bahrain blames Iran for and occasional claims of Iranian sovereignty over Bahrain by ultra conservative elements in the Iranian public.

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.

Fast paced changes of identity caused by urbanization, the empowerment of women or exposure to foreign media tend to weaken traditional norms and social networks. And, at least initially, economic growth tends to increase inequalities within a country, as some communities or individuals benefit from rising income and others don t.

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.

These institutions give a greater voice and sense of ownership to developing countries, are more likely to rely on moral suasion rather than conditionality, and tend to benefit from smaller information asymmetries.

Import tariffs tend to be higher in developing countries, making it more difficult to gain access to them.

Until the currency crashes of the 1990s, emerging and developing countries tended to target their exchange rates. Many then also switched to inflation targets but they tend to miss these targets even more often than the advanced countries do.

Developing and developed countries differ in their use of export subsidies, the former tending to rely on a more selective approach and the latter tending to use, inter alia, export promotion regimes, export financing and export guarantees.

And in there he said that cultures tend to swing between one of two perspectives.