tendency

There are, of course, other brakes on the tendency of one-party rule to subvert the system of separation of powers and checks and balances.

During her acceptance speech she hit out against the tendency of Western award bodies to group all African artists under the umbrella of "Afrobeats" - a genre of music more associated with Nigeria and West Africa.

But if Trump acts on his most unilateralist tendencies, the first diplomat worries, Hegseth and Gabbard would hardly be the people to push back.

The two coaches spent enough hours together, tossing around Air Raid ideas on the same Texas Tech staff from 2004 to 2007, to understand each other’s tendencies at a pretty deep level.

But Trump always cared about having his ego regularly fluffed over boring matters of governance, and this tendency appears to have worsened with age.