(n.) Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.
Example Sentences:
(1) The technique is facilitated by an amazingly low tendency to bleeding.
(2) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(3) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(4) EI showed a tendency to drop from week 20 to week 40 in the men and a tendency to increase from week 20 to week 40 in the women.
(5) They presented their clinical observations on 4 brothers from the 'G Family' who shared a constellation of findings with a generalised tendency to midline defects.
(6) A tendency of reduced forepaw grasping ability was seen in lead-treated rats during the end of the lead exposure.
(7) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
(8) Subjects with high ocular-dominance scores (right- or left-dominant subjects) showed for the green stimulus asymmetric behavior, while subjects with low ocular-dominance scores showed a tendency toward symmetry in perception.
(9) The general tendency of gradual CBF reduction from the pedicle to the distal end of all the flaps was observed.
(10) There was a remarkable tendency to newborns weighting more than 2000 g and a duration of pregnancy longer than 35 weeks.
(11) Radiographically the bone cyst distinguishes itself by its central localisation in the metaphysis, where as the giant cell tumor has an excentric position in the epiphysis with a tendency of extending into the metaphysis.
(12) The use of the first oversulfation method provides slightly oversulfated derivatives which exhibit strong anticoagulant properties and may constitute effective antithrombotic drugs with no bleeding tendency, a side effect perhaps related to a high rate of sulfation.
(13) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
(14) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
(15) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
(16) The transient shortening of WBCLT was succeeded by a tendency to prolongation of the lysis time.
(17) As in the protein sample, a tendency for the cis-proline residues to have the DOWN pucker was observed, but the effect was less pronounced.
(18) These data suggest that, in addition to platelet activation, abnormalities of blood clotting, and particularly reduction of antithrombin III, may play a role in the thrombotic tendency associated with homocystinuria.
(19) Mitomycin C extravasation produces a painful indolent ulcer that does not have any tendency to heal.
(20) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.
Upside
Definition:
(n.) The upper side; the part that is uppermost.
Example Sentences:
(1) In just a week her life has been turned upside down.
(2) If you turn the bowl upside down, the whites should be stiff enough not to fall out.
(3) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
(4) On the upside, this year's monsoon will lead to bumper agricultural production, and the cheaper rupee also comes with a thick silver lining.
(5) My whole world was turned upside down by the brutality of it.
(6) Archer said he was sticking to his view that house prices would see "solid but limited increases" in 2013, but admitted "there is a growing possibility that … house prices could surprise on the upside over the second half of in 2013".
(7) His many books, which included a biography of Oliver Cromwell and a celebration of the radical millenarian groups of the period called The World Turned Upside Down, were widely read.
(8) The rod was rotated 180 degrees so that the mice were oriented upside down on the bottom of the screen.
(9) "As others, we have been surprised on the upside on the growth performance so far this year on the UK" said Moritz Kraemer, S&P's head of sovereign ratings for Europe."
(10) Alonso, after hitting the wall and being catapulted airborne, landed upside down in his McLaren before crawling out of his car.
(11) Passing the scope down the patellofemoral joint allows visualization of the anterior horns of both menisci, the tibial attachment of the anterior cruciate ligament, and the anterior fat pad, but the view on the monitor is upside down.
(12) Hair colouring is one such example: as the great Nora Ephron wrote in her hilarious essay On Maintenance , "Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair any more is the secret upside of death," and ain't that the truth.
(13) Mussolini and his mistress hung upside down in Milan by Italian partisans.
(14) Mike van Dulken (@Accendo_Mike) Portuguese GDP upside suprise adds to FR and DE this morning.
(15) Campaigners for a British exit may be disappointed that Mansfield suggests there may be only a small economic upside to a British withdrawal – a 1.1% increase in GDP, which works out at £1.3bn.
(16) It was like seeing herself reflected in a mirror upside down.
(17) The upside is all for Trump.” Historically, the golden rule of Mexico’s foreign policy has been to avoid being seen as taking sides in US politics; hence the two invitations, even though Mexico favours Clinton’s position on a path to citizenship for migrants.
(18) Still, there's an upside to 007's monogamy, and it may just explain how this much-maligned film has wheedled its way so irrevocably into my affections: uniquely in the world of Bond, it allows a vein of romantic adventure to develop that's real, not illusory.
(19) Pressed on whether a cross-party consensus existed, Adonis said: " Increasingly the question is who is going to act rather than just make speeches, and act must mean really serious devolution of resources and also a preparedness to devolve tax resources – this has to be neutral at the point you have to devolve it – so as to give really big incentives to the big cities and county regions to attract business, to be business friendly, to be highly receptive to business innovation because they will keep more of the upside from increased business activity."
(20) While that's going on, Nakazawa accidentally wallops Tulio upside the head.