There is a trend today to bemoan the fact that Americans are too `` soft ''.

Given its limitations, however, NAALC has not produced ( and in fact was not intended to achieve ) convergence in employment, productivity and salary trend in North America.

Thus, the mergers were not done to see large efficiency gains, they were in fact done because that was the trend at the time.

It is suggested that the similarity between the curves of biodiversity and human population probably comes from the fact that both are derived from the interference of the hyperbolic trend with cyclical and stochastic dynamics.

Dalí supported capitalism and the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco but cannot be said to represent a trend in Surrealism in this respect ; in fact he was considered, by Breton and his associates, to have betrayed and left Surrealism.

It is because of this general trend in popular shōnen manga that the term " shōnen " is often confused as being a genre, despite the fact that many shōnen manga do not follow this trend at all.

The general trend toward urbanization of the entire area is reflected by the fact that in 1965 Liberty County was added to the Houston Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Another related explanation used in behavioral finance lies in herd behavior, the fact that investors tend to buy or sell in the direction of the market trend.

This trend is not necessarily due to the fact that more affluent roles are available however as architects with 14 or more years experience working in the Middle East earns on average £ 43, 389 per annum, compared to £ 40, 000 in the UK.

Oz Clarke has suggested that part of some South African winemakers ' disdain for Pinotage stems from the fact that it's a distinctly New World wine while the trend for South African wine is to reflect more European influences and flavors.

For computer-based systems the trend is towards unlimited numbers of record / playback tracks, although issues such as memory and CPU available will in fact limit this from machine to machine.

In fact, the more outlandish and obscure the manipulations, the more aesthetically pleasing the records were to aficionados — a trend that continues to this day in the form of breakcore.

This positive trend can be proven by the fact that the long Food queues in Tbilisi had been shortened while in Moscow been lengthened.

The Assembly Rooms started the trend in 1981, taking over the empty Georgian building that had once hosted the International Festival Club, and the following year The Circuit was prominent ; it was in fact a " tented village ”, that was situated on a piece of empty ground, popularly known as “ The Hole in The Ground ”, once the site of a snooker club ( Pool's ), where the Saltire complex was subsequently built in the early 1990s.

must develop a better strategy for addressing this trend, but the fact that

Weatherburn responded, " The fact is that the introduction of those laws did not result in any acceleration of the downward trend in gun homicide.

( 1902 ), against the “ economist ” trend of the socialist parties ( who proposed that the working class would develop a revolutionary consciousness from demanding solely economic improvements ), Lenin said that the “ history of all countries bears out the fact that, through their own powers alone, the working class can develop only a trade-union consciousness ”; and that under reformist, trade-union leadership, the working class could only engage spontaneous local rebellions to improve their political position within the capitalist system, and that revolutionary consciousness developed unevenly.

In fact, this trend was already in place in 2000, with 75 % of unions between heterosexual couples ( 42 % the previous years ) and 95 % in 2009.

Maryland abandoned its board in the 1980s, and a 2004 decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal, reversing a previous trend in favor of the Ontario Film Classification Board's right to insist on cuts, ruled that the province had no right to insist on cuts as a condition of release in view of the fact that Canadian federal obscenity laws were sufficient to deal with obscene material.

However, there has been criticism by some riders for the trend at all levels for " quick fixes " and incorrect training that makes the horse appear correct, but that is in fact neglecting the fundamentals.

Despite the fact that the indigenous have always constituted a majority in Bolivia, the electorate never chose an indigenous president for the first 180 years of the nation's history ; this trend ended in 2006 with the election of Evo Morales, the country's first indigenous President.

In fact, the Live Undead version of " Black Magic " established a career-long trend of Slayer's live songs being more powerful than the studio versions, with very few exceptions ".

In fact, for the United States, this trend of inflicting losses and material destruction primarily through air attack continued into the postwar years for Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Bosnia, and other, lesser, contingencies.

The new fact the initiates of this cult have to learn is that they must move toward simplicity.

Perhaps the public's present attitude toward business stems from the fact that the `` rugged capitalist entrepreneur '' no more exists in America.

Faulkner's total works today, and in fact those of his works which existed in 1946 when Mr. Cowley made his comment, or in 1939, when Mr. O'Donnell wrote his essay, reveal no such simple attitude toward the South.

We should not allow the image of an immanent end brought about indirectly by our own action in the continuing human struggle for a just endurable order of existence to blind us to the fact that in some measure accelerating the end of our lease may be one consequence among others of many other of mankind's thrusts toward we know not what future.

The relative moderation of Constantius ' actions toward paganism is reflected by the fact that it was not until over 20 years after Constantius ' death, during the reign of Gratian, that any pagan senators protested their religion's treatment.

Traditionally these have been interpreted as examples of government hostility toward commerce, but more recent studies, which use source material such as magistrate diaries and genealogical records, suggest that merchants in fact had a powerful impact on government policies and that the division between the world of the merchant and the world of the official was far more porous than traditionally believed.

Finally, the fact that the Rising had caused a great deal of death and destruction also contributed towards antagonism toward the rebels.

This has been said to be due to the fact that researchers in the past, such as Lamarck, viewed vertebrates as a " standard ": in Lamarck's theory of evolution, he believed that characteristics acquired through the evolutionary process involved not only survival, but also progression toward a " higher form ", to which humans and vertebrates were closer than invertebrates were.

The example of savages, almost all of whom have been found in this state, seems to confirm that the human race had been made to remain in it always ; that this state is the veritable youth of the world ; and that all the subsequent progress has been in appearance so many steps toward the perfection of the individual, and in fact toward the decay of the species.

( In fact, if the wheel has landed on red in ten consecutive spins, that is strong evidence that the wheel is not fair-that it is biased toward red.

One of the most persistent myths about Sparta that has no basis in fact is the notion that Spartan mothers were without feelings toward their off-spring and helped enforce a militaristic lifestyle on their sons and husbands.

The intense dislike shown toward Lawrence in the film is in fact the opposite of Murray's real feelings, although for his part Lawrence seemed not to hold Murray in any high regard.

The fact that world population is edging toward 7 billion people ( up from 2. 5 billion in 1950 ), with almost all of the growth expected to occur in the cities of less developed countries, has profound implications for the development process.

Shawn clearly shows his hatred toward Jack after he refuses to live with him because he did not like the fact that Jack never called or checked to see if Shawn and his dad were doing okay.

This was complicated by the fact that not all labels share the same policy toward music videos: some welcome the development and upload music videos to various online outlets themselves, viewing music videos as free advertising for their artists, while other labels view music videos not as an advertisement, but as the product itself.

The quirky naming in part comes from the fact that the city is on the " west " bank of the Mississippi River — the river flows toward the east at this point.

Part of Christian's appeal to the common people may be explained by the fact that he allowed Danish commoners into state service, but his attempts to curtail the influence of the nobility also meant continuing his father's drive toward absolutism.

Most angering of all to Homer is that fact that he clearly sees the cunning, ulterior motive of Hud in his show of personal attention and feigned affection toward Lonnie, in that Hud is trying to use this attraction to gain Lonnie ’ s support in his moves against Homer.

Historically, this could include echosoundings being conducted under settings biased toward least depths, but in modern practice hydrographic surveys typically attempt to best measure the depths observed, with the adjustments for navigational safety being applied after the fact.

Mohammed admired them as monotheists and saw them as natural adherents to the new faith and Jewish practices helped model early Islamic behavior, such as midday prayer, prayers on Friday, Ramadan fasting ( modelled after the Jewish Yom Kippur fast on the tenth of the month of Tishrei ), and most famously the fact that until 623 Muslims prayed toward Jerusalem, not Mecca.

However, one of the judges that divided the area, Judge Agarwal, noted that many of the " independent historians " displayed an " ostrich-like attitude " toward the facts and in fact lacked any expertise on the subject while they were " withering under scrutiny ".

In fact, based on this very assumption, a philosophical article has explored recently the possibility of humans ' willing extinction as a gesture toward other beings.

Diary entries kept by his wife during this period also make it clear that he was appalled by Nazi anti-Semitism, a fact that may shed light on his actual attitude toward the pogroms of the Russian Civil War.