"I mean Speakers of the House tend to be, they are obviously important figures, but they tend not to be extraordinarily well-know across the country.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

A new New York Times-CBS News poll found that Tea Party followers tend to be white, male,older than 45, conservative in outlook and usually vote Republican.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"So their shares tend to be very widely owned and widely held."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

According to Ben Urbonas, president of the Urban Watersheds Research Institute, these nutrient contaminants tend to be more of a problem in closed water systems,like lakes, where concentrations can build up.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"The most vocal and most active members of both political parties, on the Democratic side they tend to be the most liberal and on the Republican side they tend to be the most conservative."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

But Hawkings said the Tea Party victories could actually turn out to be a disadvantage for Republicans in the November general elections, because Tea Party candidates tend to be viewed as too far to the right ideologically by moderate voters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

"People tend to congregate and be together and the way the common cold virus is transmitted from one person to another is through handshakes,through sneezing, or coughing on one another."

VOA: special.2011.04.20

"They tend not to be folks who I think are directly involved in what's happening in Afghanistan,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

"I don't think at this point there is evidence that that can be done in a consistent way because people do tend to regain weight."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

People in Poland have very emotional attitudes to politics, and when he is saying something like that people think, 'oh,we will have something like a totalitarian regime if the president is also from Platforma,'" Makowski adds that the summer holiday season may also affect the vote, since wealthier Poles tend to support Komorowski and many will be leaving for vacation over the weekend.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03