Word: tends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Committee to Review Expository Writing (Expos) provided compelling arguments for the maintenance and improvement of the Expository Writing program at Harvard. One issue that arose at the discussion, however, was the disparate responses from freshmen and seniors about their Expos experiences. While taking the class and soon thereafter, students tend to find great value in the first-year course. By senior year, however, many doubt the applicability of what they learned at the beginning of their college writing careers. The program’s cited faults suggest deeper, more extensive problems with the teaching of writing at Harvard, namely...
...that are tried, according to figures provided by the Family Court of Australia to a 2003 parliamentary inquiry into custodial arrangements after separation. That mightn't sound like an outrageous imbalance, but it's important to note that only about 6% of cases make it that far - and they tend to be the atypical ones, involving accusations of drug addiction or abuse by one or both parties. Separating couples are free to work out their own parenting plan, which they're not obliged to register with the courts, although many do in anticipation of disagreements later on. The remaining cases...
...emotional storm that is the aftermath to breakup, many lack both the capacity for magnanimity and the clear-headedness to focus on the best interests of another person, even their own child. As Bryant said in a recent speech, couples who appear in her court tend to carry "with them not just baggage, but an entire caravan of family values, views and expectations." For every mother who, filled with spite, does all she can to limit her ex-husband's time with his children, there's a father who doesn't show up when he should or defaults on child...
...tend to put blinders on to science when the explanations for behavior or social problems are distasteful or difficult,” she says. “There are many lines of research that suggest that biology plays a role in the modulation of sex differences in behavior and perhaps cognition...
...will note that I find it odd that it is uncontroversial to say that men tend to be taller than women or that men and women have different brain structures and compositions, but that Summers’s assertions caused as much of a firestorm as they...