7 sentences with 'tendencies'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tendencies and other words derived from it.
• « While Britain was thus the outstanding exception to the general pattern of absolutism, the growth of its state was comparable to the growth among its absolutist rivals. Overall, the states of Europe were transformed by absolutist tendencies. »
• « Exiled to Britain after the failure of the 1848 revolutions, Marx devoted himself to a detailed analysis of the endogenous tendencies of the capitalist economy, eventually producing three massive volumes entitled, simply, Capital. »
• « At the same time, none of the factors that could mitigate the destructive tendencies of capitalism were financially beneficial to any individual capitalist, so Marx saw no reason for them to occur on a large scale in states controlled by moneyed interests. »
• « This involved three tendencies. First, colonial regimes expropriated land from the people who lived there. This was done by force, supported by pseudo-legal means: unless a given person or group had legal title in the Western sense to the land they lived on, they could have it confiscated. »
• « Mikhail Bakunin was the exemplary figure in this regard - Bakunin believed that the only way to create a perfect socialist future was to completely destroy the existing political and social order, after which the "natural" human tendencies of peace and altruism would manifest themselves and create a better society for all. »
• « Lenin suffered a series of attacks in the early 1920s, giving Stalin the opportunity to build his power base unopposed, even though Lenin himself was concerned about Stalin's dictatorial tendencies. »
• « Until 1991, Yugoslavia consisted of six federative republics: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro. In a territory of just over 225,000 square kilometres, a population with profound internal differences in language, religion, alphabet and cultural tendencies coexisted. »