Tin Machine's first world tour was a commercial success, but there was growing reluctance — among fans and critics alike — to accept Bowie's presentation as merely a band member.

" Persse listened to this stream of filth flowing from between Angelica's exquisite lips and pearly teeth with growing astonishment and burning cheeks, but no one else in the audience seemed to find anything remarkable or disturbing about her presentation '.

Despite critical acclaim from the mainstream press and a growing number of fans nationwide, people in some conservative circles reportedly felt threatened by Saviour Machine's lyrical direction and stage presentation, most prominently the white make-up and jewel worn by vocalist Eric Clayton.

Despite a growing inclination of the IRS and Tax Courts to challenge valuation discounts, Shannon Pratt suggested in a scholarly presentation recently that valuation discounts are actually increasing as the differences between public and private companies is widening.

Headrick abandoned his trademark on the term " Disc Golf ", and turned over control and administration of the PDGA to the growing body of disc golf players in order to focus on his passion for building and inventing equipment for the sport.

The men would rehearse for hours and would base their moves on that from professional wrestling ( a sport that was growing in popularity in Japan ).

At a time in which football was played seriously only in the larger cities of the Northwest of Italy, most of Verona was indifferent to the growing sport.

Roller hockey is a growing sport in Britain with teams cropping up all over the country.

In the past decade more men are becoming involved in the sport and a global biannual competition called Men's Cup has been steadily growing.

Cricket is a rapidly growing sport in Tanzania after hosting the ICC Cricket League division 4 in 2008, Tanzania finished with one win for the tournament, and Tanzania also has its own national team.

By 1977, the American Bicycle Association ( ABA ) was organized as a national sanctioning body for the growing sport.

Since the early 1990s, the Egyptian national handball team has become a growing international force in the sport, winning regional and continental tournaments as well as reaching up to fourth place internationally in 2001.

A stone cottage was built at Mount Hotham in 1925 to cater for a growing interest in sport of skiing and a Club was built in 1944 with the first ski tow installed in 1951.

The opening of a shopping mall in the centre of the city, as well as new sport and cultural infrastructure, and the construction of many residential apartment buildings have made Ninove a growing competitor for nearby Aalst and an ideal living-place for many commuters who work in nearby Brussels.

Certain paintball fields opened in the Eastern Townships and in the Laurentians offering to the ever growing of paintball players to play on fields that were created for this sport.

Rugby union in Peru is a minor but growing sport.

Up to this point, Chrysler-Plymouth outlets did not have a sport utility vehicle ( SUV ) to sell, and adding the Jeep line helped dealers offer customers a range of vehicles in a rapidly growing market segment.

However, Branch noted that the revelation in a contemporaneous McClure's magazine story of " Camp's $ 100, 000 slush fund ", along with concern about the violence of the growing sport, helped lead to President Theodore Roosevelt's intervention in the sport.

The sport has grown into a worldwide industry with growing strongholds in Australia, South American countries like Peru and Chile, Japan, Canary Islands ( Spain ), South Africa, and so forth.

After over half a century of amateurism, the amateur status of the sport began to be displaced by growing professionalism in the late 1970s.

Baker began to tire of playing hockey after 1915 ; the constant physical play of opposing players on the ice had taken its toll, and the growing professionalism of the sport went against his belief that sports should be played for the love of the game.

Over the past 30 years since 1976, and especially since the formation of the IDBF and its Continental Federations for Asia and Europe in the early 1990s, dragon boating as a sport with regularised rules and equipment has rapidly spread beyond Asia to Europe, North and South America, Australia and Africa, becoming a popular international sport for a growing global base of participants.

Today, dragon boat racing ( sport and festival ) is among the fastest growing of team water sports, with scores of thousands of participants in various organisations and clubs in over 60 countries – 62 of which are IDBF members ( as of 8 Jan 2009 ).

A growing sport in North America, riverboarding has grown in popularity from media exposure and the emergence of commercial operators running riverboard trips.

There is also growing anecdotal evidence that the decision in the early 1980's to shift rearing operations of sport fish ( walleye and muskellunge ) from traditional man-made structures to existing shallow water basins in midwestern states ( Minnesota especially ) decimated the invertebrate populations formerly used by migrating hens for forage.

In the late 1920s, Gerhard Mueller, a mechanical engineering student, was a newcomer to growing sport of skiing.

Reasons for this development include changes in the weather and dramatic changes in the global economy, including higher oil prices, lower food reserves, and growing consumer demand in China and India.

India's growing international influence gives it a prominent voice in global affairs.

Within the next century, however, European and Asian economies were slowly becoming integrated through the rise of new global trade routes ; and the early thrust of European political power, commerce, and culture in Asia gave rise to a growing trade in lucrative commodities — a key development in the rise of today's modern world free market economy

World population is still growing, and UN projections show that global population will continue to grow, from close to 7 billion currently to 10. 1 billion in 2100.

There are over 279 million Pentecostals worldwide, and the movement is growing in many parts of the world, especially the global South.

It is acknowledged that the smuggling of people is a growing global phenomenon.

A consensus among scientists today would hold that a global increase in atmospheric aerosols would probably result in a cooling of the climate ; however, a smaller but growing fraction of the current evidence suggests that it may have a warming effect.

Taiwan has recovered quickly from the global financial crisis of 2007-2010, and its economy has been growing steadily.

Growth then rose to 6 % to 7 % between 2000 and 2002 even in the midst of the global recession, making it the world's second-fastest growing economy.

In the past decade, Vietnam has recognized the importance of growing global economic interdependence and has made concerted efforts to adjust its foreign relations to reflect the evolving international economic and political situation in Southeast Asia.

To avoid a global water crisis, farmers will have to strive to increase productivity to meet growing demands for food, while industry and cities find ways to use water more efficiently.

A growing number of grassroots global events and celebrations such as International Day of Peace, World Party Day participants, and Peace One Day recommend WFP on radio broadcasts as an immediate reach out action, putting help within reach of anyone with the information that a quarter feeds a child for a day.

In 1986, WHO started it global programme on the growing problem of HIV / AIDS, followed two years later by additional attention on preventing discrimination against sufferers and UNAIDS was formed in 1996.

The global temperature kept growing during the decade.

To avoid a global water crisis, farmers will have to strive to increase productivity to meet growing demands for food, while industry and cities find ways to use water more efficiently.

With regards to agriculture, the World Bank targets food production and water management as an increasingly global issue that is fostering a growing debate.

During the early part of the 2010s, the Dow made a fairly notable rally attempt in the face of growing global concerns such as the 2010 European sovereign debt crisis and the Dubai debt crisis.

Thus, the growing body of genome information can also be tapped in a more general way to address global problems by applying a comparative approach.

Because cotton is the world's biggest nonfood crop, and water shortages are a growing global trend, some jean companies are looking into ways to reduce the amount of water needed in their production of jeans-from field to factory.

The increase in global fuel costs also contributed to the country's decline in production and growing trade deficit.

East Germany's growing involvement in both the East European economic system and the global economy reflected its new international status.

In view of growing outsourcing and global procuring, it is necessary to extend the theory to the case with traded intermediate goods.

His challenges were severe in the face of global financial issues such as the explosive increase in the price of oil, collapse of the postwar trading system, slowing economic growth, soaring inflation, and growing deficits.