A slow and painful trend toward unification has taken hold, a trend which may at any time be arrested and reversed but which may also lead to a binding federation of Europe.

There is a trend to packaging meat at a central source, freezing it, and shipping it to outlying stores, where meat cutters will not be required.

Competitors came to receive higher percentage of General Motors business in later years, but it is `` likely '' that this trend stemmed `` at least in part '' from the needs of General Motors outstripping Du Pont's capacity.

The trend throughout the world's religions has been toward a recognition of at least the practical validity of this constitutional enactment.

Comparisons can also look at tests of trend, such as linear and quadratic relationships, when the independent variable involves ordered levels.

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.

The following is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Azerbaijan at market prices with figures in millions of Manats.

This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Bhutan at market prices

This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Brunei Darussalam at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of Bruneian Dollars.

This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Burkina Faso at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of CFA Francs.

It is at this point that war and inflation halted a trend to larger orchestras and forced the disbanding or reduction of many theatre orchestras.

This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Chad at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of CFA Francs.

This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Cameroon at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of Central African CFA Francs.

Canis lupus is assessed as Least Concern by the IUCN, as its relatively widespread range and stable population trend mean that the species, at global level, does not meet, or nearly meet, any of the criteria for the threatened categories.

This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Djibouti at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of Djiboutian francs.

FT depicts a broad trend, and an extrapolation of historical rates therefore tends to underestimate future BAU deforestation for counties at the early stages in the transition ( HFLD ), while it tends to overestimate BAU deforestation for countries at the later stages ( LFHD and LFLD ).

A study of German dominatrices by Andrew Wilson has noted the trend for dominatrices choosing names aimed at creating and maintaining an atmosphere in which class, femininity and mystery are key elements of their self-constructed identity.

The Red Wings have not used any alternate logos or uniforms since the trend became popular in the 1990s, the sole exceptions were select games of the 1991 – 92 season commemorating the league's 75th Anniversary, and for a commemorative game in 1994 at Chicago Stadium.

The following table displays the trend of Ethiopia's gross domestic product at market prices, according to estimates by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of Ethiopian Birr.

The difference between ET and UT is called ΔT ; it changes irregularly, but the long-term trend is parabolic, decreasing from ancient times until the nineteenth century, and increasing since then at a rate corresponding to an increase in the solar day length of 1. 7 ms per century ( see leap seconds ).

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 trend of releasing director's cuts was first introduced in the early 1980s alongside the rise of the home video industry.

In recent years, mainly due to concerns over spam and a general trend towards centralisation, problems have arisen for small organisations and home users wishing to run their own email server.

Sosa finished the 2005 season batting. 221 with 14 home runs, his worst performance since 1992, and continuing his post-2001 trend of declines in batting average, homers, total bases, and RBI.

Reactionary and fundamentalist movements are unlikely to halt this trend, as the sharia itself defends the right to privacy within the home.

DIY punk is also well noted for its trend toward lo-fi sound, produced for the most part on inexpensive four-track machines such as the Tascam, and copied from tape to tape on home recording equipment, degrading the quality still further.

The story dealt with the rising trend of home foreclosures in Riverside County, and Perris was referred to as the " epicenter ".

Because of a trend in supermarket video sales and rentals, Paramount offered rebates for the home video release of The Undiscovered Country through boxes of Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats.

George Clemenceau's epitaph of Faure, in the same trend, was " Il voulait être César, il ne fut que Pompée " ( another wordplay in French ; could mean both " he wished to be Caesar, but ended up as Pompey ", or " he wished to be Caesar and ended up being blown ": the verb " pomper " in French is also slang for performing oral sex on a man ); Clemenceau, who was also editor of the newspaper l ' Aurore, wrote that " upon entering the void, he must have felt home ".< ref >

There is an increasing trend to network home appliances together, and combine their controls and key functions.

Since then, it became a common trend to port arcade games to home systems since the second console generation, though at the time they were often more limited than the original arcade games due to the technical limitations of home consoles.

This combination of power and speed is rare, and combined with the trend for modern ballparks to have smaller outfields ( to increase the number of home runs hit ), it has ensured that the career and season triples leaders mostly consist of players who played earlier in the sport's history.

During the late 1970s and 1980s, the region was also known in the United Kingdom as the " Costa del Crime ", due to the trend for British gangsters to escape from legal trouble at home by moving there to live their lives in luxury.

In the United States home birth declined from 50 % in 1938 to fewer than 1 % in 1955 ; in the United Kingdom a similar but slower trend happened with approximately 80 % of births occurring at home in the 1920s and only 1 % in 1991.

In the Netherlands, an opposite trend has taken place: in 1965, two-thirds of Dutch births took place at home, but that figure has dropped to less than a third — about 30 %.

The city has also become home to many large companies moving out of La Défense business district, located only from Rueil, a trend first established by the move of Esso headquarters to Rueil.

A growing trend is the home tanning bed.

In 2011, floral cottons are the current trend following a renewed interest in home sewing, as noted in the Radio 4 article cited below.

The community numbered about 400, 000 after World War II, but the appeal of Israel and economic and cultural pressures at home led many to leave ; recent instability in Israel has resulted in a modest reversal of the trend since 2003.

Occasionally, people communicate between home and work by putting messages inside the boxes ; however, with the rise of instant communication such as SMS and instant messaging, this trend is vanishing.

Then Carl goes home, and upon climbing into the house through an upstairs window, he sees his mother on the phone with his father about a big meeting at the school that night, to talk about the new trend of violence with the children.

Families of Corll's victims were highly critical of the Houston Police Department, which had been quick to list the missing boys as runaways who had not been considered worthy of any major investigation: The families of the murdered youths asserted that the police should have noted an insidious trend in the pattern of disappearances of teenage boys from the Heights neighborhood ; other family members complained the police had been dismissive to their adamant insistence that their sons had no reasons to run away from home.

Kildare County have yet to end a season with a home game and this trend was to continue for the 2007 season.