Preposition: towards

• violence: They also found that a tendency toward violence or recklessness was directly related to having more sexual partners.

Converse of object

• centralize: This is, after all, a government with one of the most centralizing tendencies in recent history.

• reinforce: The impasses created by the EU's present strategic choices reinforce these tendencies.

• actualise: The actualising tendency is the motive for changing circumstances that result in " doing better.

• inherit: No test can show whether you have inherited the tendency for nodal or knee osteoarthritis.

• resist: In the case of shops, designers should resist the tendency to neglect all that occurs above the fascia.

Preposition: in

• literature: There is a tendency in the literature to associate Mackie's model of causality with a deterministic view of the universe.

Noun used with modifier

• donna: Rainmakers with prima donna tendencies can be helped to adopt this view.

• anarchist: He pitches his piece, most basically, as a comparison of two viewpoints, " two anarchist tendencies.

• action: This in turn predisposes to certain types of perceptions and action tendencies.

Adjective modifier

• marked: It has often been observed that Persian art has a marked decorative tendency.

• centrifugal: There is a standing centrifugal tendency in the church from Paul to Luke.

• unfortunate: Throughout the remainder of this chapter there is an unfortunate tendency to treat myth as history.

Noun used with modifier

• separatist: Out of this separatist tendency came the Baptist church.

• reductionist: Positively Healthy believes that this reductionist tendency loses much personal data that cannot be turned into mere numbers.