The temptation is to say that, as the percentage of church members mounted, the degree of discipline exercised by the churches lessened and the trend was towards conformity to the general level.

The use of this term illustrates a past trend towards referring to the whole continent of Africa by the name Aethiopia.

In marked contrast to earlier constructions and villages on top of the mesas, the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde reflected a region-wide trend towards the aggregation of growing regional populations into close, highly defensible quarters during the 13th century.

In the 18th century the " dominant trend " in Britain, particularly in Latitudinarianism, was towards Arianism, with which the names of Samuel Clarke, Benjamin Hoadly, William Whiston and Isaac Newton are associated.

This is the reason behind the trend towards outsourcing in the financial sector.

The trend of building upwards for offices that emerged towards the beginning of the 19th century displaced brick in favor of cast and wrought iron and later steel and concrete.

Trilobites are rarer than in previous periods, on a steady trend towards extinction, represented only by the proetid group.

Over the past decade, there has been a trend towards increasing the independence of central banks as a way of improving long-term economic performance.

As a general trend, the modern slants on the cosmological argument, including the Kalam argument, tend to lean very strongly towards an in fieri argument.

Critics of Boswell have pointed out that many earlier doctrinal sources condemn homosexuality in ethical terms without prescribing a punishment, and that Boswell's citations reflected a general trend towards harsher penalties from the 12th century onwards.

The trend during World War I had been towards larger destroyers with heavier armaments.

Historically, electronics labs have consisted of electronics devices and equipment located in a physical space, although in more recent years the trend has been towards electronics lab simulation software, such as CircuitLogix, Multisim, and PSpice.

There is a recent trend towards multi-denominational schools established by parents, which are organised as limited companies without share capital.

Whereas the current Finnish administration ( notably Jutta Urpilainen ) has been more hesitant towards the EU monetary policy than the previous ones, Eurobarometers and other polls have shown that among Finnish citizens, the opinion trend has been somewhat reversed during recent years.

As Industrialization became more prominent as well as the increasing trend towards Urbanization the conservative environmental movement began.

Along with a current trend towards environmentalism, people in Western culture have had an increasing trend towards the use of herbal supplements, foods for a specific group of person ( such as dieters, women, or athletes ), functional foods ( fortified foods, such as omega-3 eggs ), and a more ethnically diverse diet.

This went against the trend towards filmic restraint already visible in what were called " polite " comedies from other film companies.

Once underway, the trend was aided by the move towards the increasing use of cuts within scenes in American films.

Although some European film-makers picked up the trend towards using dialogue titles, they did not pick up on the move towards cutting them into the scene at the point at which they were actually spoken until a few years later.

The general trend in the development of cinema, led from the United States, was towards using the newly developed specifically filmic devices for expression of the narrative content of film stories, and combining this with the standard dramatic structures already in use in commercial theatre.

They set a trend by photographing " bigger and healthier " California models and printing their names by their photos, thus turning many of them into household names and establishing the issue as a cornerstone of supermodel status.

Industry analysts suggest that this trend plays a bigger part in driving upgrades to existing computer systems than technological advancements.

Since 2002 there has been a growing trend for packaging energy drink in bigger cans.

Many riders use bigger bars for more control, although big bars have become a trend among kids and popular professional riders.

Hypercoasters were originally built for speed and airtime, to counter the trend of constructing bigger and bigger looping coasters.

The newspaper still conceded that by pricing its products higher, offering bigger burgers and building larger dining rooms, Five Guys could capitalize on the recent trend of mid-level places that offer more expensive products than fast food but cheaper than fancy restaurants.

Both stations have served as a springboard for on-air personnel who have moved on to bigger stations, and that trend continues today.

New jack swing was a style and trend of vocal music, often featuring rapped verses and drum machines.

In the last few decades, the popularity of the batá drums has increased worldwide so significantly that they have begun to be produced in greater numbers both by large western drum companies and individual artisans in Africa using a variety of " non-traditional " materials even including fiberglass drums, some instrument builders preferring cow skins or even synthetic membranes, while some traditionalists may express disdain for this trend and insist upon strict orthodoxy ( as others and newcomers embrace the unique tonal ranges of the drums purely for their abstract musical possibilities without observance of traditional rules and rituals ).

Another trend which has become very extensive is to produce kits where the parts snap together, with no glue needed ; sometimes the majority of the parts snap together with a few requiring glue.

A relatively new trend led by Tamiya is military vehicle kits in 1: 48 scale — a popular scale for military aircraft models.

Such models may be more highly detailed than a straight build ' out of the box ' though the trend to more detailed kits is decreasing the difference.

This change was almost certainly due to the trend toward the louder " Rock " sounds of the 1970s, despite the earlier models being credited by Pete Townshend as being key to the development of " the Marshall sound " and his refinement of electric guitar feedback techniques

Rock Around the Bunker belonged in the mid-1970s " retro " trend.

Marty Stuart's " Hillbilly Rock " and Hank Williams, Jr .' s " All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight " were the most noteworthy examples of this trend, but they and other artists like Steve Earle and the Kentucky Headhunters charted many records with this approach.

The trend continued on a larger scale with The Hindenburg ( 1975 ) starring George C. Scott ; The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ) starring Burt Lancaster ; Two-Minute Warning ( 1976 ) starring Charlton Heston ; Black Sunday ( 1977 ) starring Robert Shaw ; Rollercoaster in Sensurround ( 1977 ) starring George Segal ; Damnation Alley ( 1977 ) starring Jan-Michael Vincent ; Avalanche ( 1978 ) starring Rock Hudson ; Gray Lady Down ( 1978 ) also starring Charlton Heston ; Hurricane ( a 1979 remake of John Ford's 1937 film ) starring Jason Robards ; and City on Fire ( 1979 ) starring Henry Fonda.

Guitar Player, in an article titled " 20 Essential Rock Albums ", cited elements of their 1960 Walk, Don't Run album which presaged the then-coming surf trend.

Bucking the country ’ s covers-only trend, Rock Machine soon began to write and perform their own songs.

Moreover, their anthem "( You Can Still ) Rock In America " appealed to a patriotic trend in 1980s rock pushed forward by both Ted Nugent and Sammy Hagar ( Jack Blades would later form a popular supergroup with Nugent called Damn Yankees ).

As punk and New Wave Rock started to become popular at the end of the 1970s most rock stations in the United States ignored these genres but WLIR again bucked the trend by playing artists from these genres.

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).

In recent years, a growing Tex-Mex polka band trend from Mexican immigrants ( i. e. Conjunto or Norteño ) has influenced much of new Chicano folk music, especially in large market Spanish language radio stations and on television music video programs in the U. S. The band Quetzal is known for its political songs.

With the string section laid off, synthesisers took a dominating role, as was the trend in the larger music scene of the time, although studio strings were present on some of the tracks conducted by Rainer Pietsch, the overall soundscape had a more electronic feel in keeping with the futuristic nature of the album.

This trend is part of the larger trend of greying audiences for classical music since the last decades of the 20th century.

As early as 1938, Theodor Adorno had already identified a trend toward the dissolution of " a culturally dominant set of values " ( Beard and Gloag 2005, 141 ), citing the commodification of all genres as beginning of the end of genre or value distinctions in music ( Adorno 2002, 293 – 95 ).

In secular music, especially in the madrigal, there was a trend towards complexity and even extreme chromaticism ( as exemplified in madrigals of Luzzaschi, Marenzio, and Gesualdo ).

Beginning in Florence, there was an attempt to revive the dramatic and musical forms of Ancient Greece, through the means of monody, a form of declaimed music over a simple accompaniment ; a more extreme contrast with the preceding polyphonic style would be hard to find ; this was also, at least at the outset, a secular trend.

Orbison became one of the first recording artists to popularize the Nashville Sound, a trend of country and pop crossover music that used session musicians dubbed the A-Team: guitarists Grady Martin, Harold Bradley, Ray Edenton, and Bob Moore ; pianists Floyd Cramer or Hargus " Pig " Robbins ; drummer Buddy Harman ; and backup vocals by the Jordanaires or the Anita Kerr Singers.

Immersive virtual musical instruments build on the trend in electronic musical instruments to develop new ways to control sound and perform music such as evidenced by conferences like NIME and aim to represent musical events and sound parameters in a virtual reality in such a way that they can be perceived not only through auditory feedback, but also visually in 3D and possibly through tactile as well as haptic feedback, allowing the development of novel interaction metaphors beyond manipulation such as prehension.

The late 2000s displayed a new trend in music, Auto-Tune.

By 1950, another emerging musical trend, the African-American popular music style known as Rhythm and Blues driven by musicians like Fats Domino was drawing young audiences away.

Ravel's music was innovative, though he did not follow the contemporary trend towards atonality, as pioneered by Schoenberg.

Griffiths joined turned his back on the entire music scene, citing the growing trend in drug abuse, and general disillusionment as his reasons.

A proliferation of music clubs, recording studios, and concert appearances of Cuban bands in Léopoldville spurred on the Cuban music trend during the late 1940s and 1950s.

Many countries with local pop music industries soon copied the trend towards promo film clips.

Another album recorded in 1974 that was rejected by Word Records was Streams of White Light Into Darkened Corners, a documentary album that took " a satirical look at the early 1970s ' religious pop music ' trend from 1970 to 1974 ", written by celebrities who had " jumped on the ` 70s spiritual bandwagon ", and featured Norman singing covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, and the Rolling Stones, and was not released until 1977 by AB Records.

This led to Indian music being used by other musicians and created the raga rock trend.

Burke was a notable example of this trend when in 1979 he returned to his gospel music roots by signing with gospel label Savoy Records.

The album later set a trend for James ' music to incorporate more jazz elements.

The composer John Philip Sousa is closely associated with the most popular trend in American popular music just before the turn of the century.