But the Reagan years were only an extreme expression of a tendency inherent in democratic societies.

Some scientists are not quite ready to abandon entirely the concept of an inherent tendency toward equilibrium in ecosystems.

Justice Loh recognized that the difference between the inherent tendency and real risk tests is not a matter of semantics.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

This inherent tendency towards corporatism seems less inevitable in the late 1980s but we will return to it below.

Derivation holds that every species changes in time, by virtue of inherent tendencies thereto.

Whatever the case, there's no denying a dog's inherent tendency to bound after moving objects.

Any bureaucracy has certain inherent tendencies toward corruption.

We reverse between the states in each pair depending on a number of factors, including our inherent tendency to adopt one style over the other.

Other common changes occurred in the 7th century onward and are possibly due to inherent tendencies.