There is an overwhelming tendency in the public schools toward regression to the mean, and not only because charismatic leaders are in short supply.

However, there is an overwhelming tendency for the 11 most picked players in a squad to be shorter than their team-mates, which could suggest a bias in the scouting system.

But the basic trend is there, part of the overwhelming tendency of passengers to carry on everything possible.

Despite the occasional friction, the overwhelming tendency of both the Paris and the Tokyo groups was to assist the nationalist cause.

The overwhelming tendency in unobservant industrial society, however, is to ignore small problems until they become enormous- and then panic.

Nor will this overwhelming tendency to do wrong for the wrong's sake, admit of analysis, or resolution into ulterior elements.

The overwhelming tendency, though, is to so concentrate on 'self that others are excluded.

It can preclude an overwhelming tendency for action, (e.g., to run from a fire in a crowded theater), because an abstract memory (e.g., "don't panic,") makes more sense.

What emerges is not unanimity, but the overwhelming tendency, the overwhelming majority.