Those applications, however, tend not to constitute "misuse" in many authors' eyes.

Anti-materiel applications such as mine clearing and special forces operations tend to use semi-automatics.

His application of them tended towards the field of business.

Of course, this is only possible when the application tends to require many steps which apply one operation to a large set of data.

But the most common applications tend to be prosaic.

As a rule this application tends to be under-exploited.

Early motorcycles, automobiles and other applications such as marine engines all tended to be single-cylinder.

Recent applications tend to favor the falling-film pattern rather than rising-film.

Such applications tend to be less controversial than nuclear power; and, therefore, they generally enjoy a much more favorable public perception.

The point being, applications written for the same environment tend to follow the same design principles.