Their hypothesis is that cultures prone to anxiety tend towards systems that emphasise social harmony and away from ones that emphasise individuals' independence of each other.
While nearly every hotel in town offers an iftar, the dishes tend to veer towards the traditional.
Despite that, most powerful Indian earthquakes tend to occur towards the north of the subcontinent (see map).
Against this backdrop, the big thinkers about today's media revolution tend to veer towards extremes of optimism or pessimism.
He made use of the notion of economic equilibrium the idea that variables tend to move towards particular values, and thus in a predictable direction.
By and large, they tend to lean towards the principle of net neutrality, however they are acutely aware of the needs of telecommunications firms and ISPs.
China banks have seen an upswing in non-performing loans and investors on balance tend to lean towards moderately concerned to not that concerned at all.
This is tentative evidence that Sandy helped Obama, which more deeply means that this is tentative evidence that when disasters come, our politics tend to shift towards statism.
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However, that outcome seems unlikely, because the government is borrowing money at a furious pace and security threats appear to be receding, trends that will tend to direct budget cutters towards the defense budget especially technology programs whose cancellation would generate only modest political fallout.
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"I always wanted to be a chippie so that is what I do, whereas they tend to push children now towards computers, " he said.
Other brands tend to skew more obviously towards one party or another.
In America these tend to skew the results towards the Democrats.
This law states that if you have the same good in two different locations, and their prices once adjusted for currency exchange rates are different, the market will tend to pull the prices back towards parity.
The hadar, as settled bedouin are known, tend to have larger families and lean towards religious conservatism.
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In winter, when shoppers tend to be at their most generous towards the homeless, they are joined by British and Irish vendors who sell the magazine only for a few months of the year.
Add to that the fact that emerging types of work tend towards the extremes.
Trends indicated, in particular, that folks tend to be moving away from the northeast and towards the southeast.
Unlike young men, most live at home, pay little towards their keep and tend not to own cars.
For example, if a chocolate bar costs two dollars, and the exchange rate between dollars and pounds is two to one, then the same chocolate bar will tend towards a price of one pound.
They are biased towards bigger universities, which tend to be better known and to produce more research. (This may have helped Argentina's UBA, whose glory days are in the past.) But what they do capture matters.
Additionally, white profile owners appear to gravitate towards Facebook and LinkedIn, while minority profile owners tend towards profiles on MySpace.
Similarly, the pressure exerted by sunlight, and the force exerted by the emissions from each probe's radio antenna, were dismissed: again, both are too weak, and they would tend to push the probes away from the sun, not towards it.
As Nuance develops the natural language algorithms that help it detect speech, it is working towards personal language models too, tailored to what individuals themselves tend to say.
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Such efforts will tend towards a lowest common denominator, which does not do justice to the complex richness of Europe and its changing interests.
"They tend to send more cheers than they do taunts, so it does tilt towards positive encouragement, " said Nichiketa Choudary a senior product manager at FitBit.
You can still get earth moving chocolate gelato but it is because those who make it tend to use extremely high quality artisanal cocoa, and chocolate gelato inevitably leans towards the bittersweet end of the spectrum.
So while the tech-savvy may tend to always default to the more technology form and the technophobes may naturally go towards the less technology forms it is best to pick the form that best meets your needs based upon its characteristics.
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In theory the natural rate will tend towards the expected nominal growth rate of the economy, so you want to keep that at zero.
Periods of excess, when inequality has grown, tend to be followed by eras of reform: Roosevelt bust the trusts and shortly afterwards Congress moved towards introducing a federal income tax.
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