Tends

Examples

• Hence, the canon of Natura non facit saltum, which every fresh addition to our knowledge tends to confirm, is on this theory intelligible. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Play tends to reproduce and affirm the crudities, as well as the excellencies, of surrounding adult life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It likewise tends to increase the direct action of the physical conditions of life, in relation to the constitution of each organism. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But the withdrawal alters the stimuli operating, and tends to make them more consonant with the needs of the organism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• On the contrary, it tends to suppress them, just because they are deviations from what is current. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The increase of stock, which raises wages, tends to lower profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The gas, on entering the tube, _a_, presses against the upper surface of the compartment that happens to be then above it, and tends to turn the inner cylinder round. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It tends to render their learning both as solid as possible, and as useful as possible. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The ultimate result is that each creature tends to become more and more improved in relation to its conditions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He tends to meekness and obesity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In addition, the written form tends to select and record matters which are comparatively foreign to everyday life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The extension of improvement and cultivation tends to raise it directly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When information is purveyed in chunks simply as information to be retained for its own sake, it tends to stratify over vital experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Accordingly, a survey of the sciences tends to increase mutual respect, and to heighten the humanitarian sentiment. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• You have no idea how the Genius of the country (overlook the Parliamentary nature of the phrase, and don't be bored by it) tends to being left alone. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The scarcity of a dear year, by diminishing the demand for labour, tends to lower its price, as the high price of provisions tends to raise it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This arrangement tends to obviate any misleading deflections that might arise through changes in the battery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The swifter craft are seldom equipped with large buoyancy tanks, since the added bulk of them tends to reduce a vessel's speed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Knowledge which is mainly second-hand, other men's knowledge, tends to become merely verbal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Damp clothing should never be worn, because the moisture in it tends to evaporate at the expense of the bodily heat, and this undue loss of heat from the body produces chills. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It tends to become a mere verbal formula, a set of catchwords used to render thinking, or genuine theorizing, unnecessary and impossible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What is strange or foreign (that is to say outside the activities of the groups) tends to be morally forbidden and intellectually suspect. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Emphasis upon symbols and institutions tends to divert perception from the direct growth of experience in richness of meaning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It tends, therefore, to increase the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The pressure of the confined air reacts against the water and tends to drive it out of the chamber. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The water that is drawn up introduces itself around the steam pipe and tends to make its exit through the annular space at the conical extremity of the latter steam pipe. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The other is the circumferential or tangential stress, which tends to split the gun open in lines parallel to the axis of the bore. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• By this means the brightness is increased, by exposing the flame more directly to the current of air; and the metal disc, by becoming heated, also tends to aid the combustion of the carbon. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Direction expresses the basic function, which tends at one extreme to become a guiding assistance and at another, a regulation or ruling. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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