2008 saw a new twist to Lebanese politics when the Doha Agreement set a new trend where the opposition is allowed a veto power in the Lebanese Council of Ministers and confirmed religious Confessionalism in the distribution of political power.

Beginning in the 1960s, Eastern European skaters started a trend to dance in more open positions, which allowed for greater speed over the ice, more upper-body involvement, and greater projection towards the audience.

Crowdsourcing, another trend enabled by the Internet, has allowed thousands of independent and hobbyist graphic designers to produce and distribute holiday cards around the world.

The trend changed in 1889, when ten women were allowed to enroll and seek degrees at the university.

Although it created a jarring difference in tempo in the center of the song, it allowed Hip-Hop DJs to extend the beat by switching between two copies of the record on two separate turntables at a danceable tempo while ignoring the rest of the song ( this technique was created by Kool Herc in 1974 and became a trend at large in 1977 with the efforts of Grandmaster Flash ).

However the rejection of synthetic or biomedical products has become a growing trend in Western society and allowed for a rise in the demand for natural medicines.

This move was part of a trend amongst musicians allowed by the proliferation of digital recording technology and distribution.

The core concept of Adiemus is that the voice should be allowed to function as nothing more than an instrument, an approach that has become something of a trend in recent choral writing ( compare, for example Vangelis's score for the film 1492: Conquest of Paradise ( 1992 ), or " Dogora ", a symphonic suite by French composer Étienne Perruchon ).

In addition, Shadows of Luclin began the trend of instant teleportation in Everquest with the addition of the Nexus, which allowed people to transport from various spires in the original Norrath up to Luclin.

This trend was later expanded on with the Planes of Power expansion, which added the Plane of Knowledge and " PoK books " that allowed teleportation to nearly every newbie zone in Norrath, " boat gnomes "-- teleporters that replaced the original boats, and the Magi that allowed transport between Wayfarer's camps in the Lost Dungeons of Norrath expansion.

In recent years, the trend has been to include fewer ( or even none ) of the allowed white varieties and rely heavily ( or solely ) upon the Grenache, Mourvèdre, and Syrah.

This influential article by Stefan Kanfer claimed that Bonnie and Clyde represented a " New Cinema " through its blurred genre lines, and disregard for honoured aspects of plot and motivation, and that “ In both conception and execution, Bonnie and Clyde is a watershed picture, the kind that signals a new style, a new trend .” Biskind states that this review and turnaround by some critics allowed the film to be rereleased thus proving its commercial success and reflecting the move to New Hollywood.

Within the superfamily Loricarioidea, Loricariidae is the most derived ; in this superfamily, there is a trend toward increasingly complex jaw morphology, which may have allowed for the great diversification of the Loricariidae, which have the most advanced jaws.

The results showed that inclusion of the covariate allowed improved estimates of the trend against time to be obtained, compared to analyses which omitted the covariate.

As noted by Kentucky historian Lowell H. Harrison, Brown's hands-off approach allowed the legislature to gain power relative to the governor for the first time in Kentucky history, a trend which continued into the terms of his successors.

According to writer Emily Dubberley, the rule hampered the 1990s trend toward feminist pornography ; since " you couldn't show a man in a state of arousal ", the allowed depiction was " hardly a turn-on ", and she criticized it as a double standard that was permitted due to the perception that women did not respond to visual erotic stimuli.

After World War II, there appeared a new and often subversive trend in publishing that allowed for books to be written, cheaply produced, and widely distributed using technology previously unavailable.

Evolutionary psychologists theorize that humans ' permanently enlarged breasts, in contrast to other primates ' breasts, which only enlarge during ovulation, allowed females to " solicit male attention and investment even when they are not really fertile ", though Morris notes that in recent years there has been a trend toward reversing breast augmentations.

This can be accomplished substantially by a continued trend toward better facilities and techniques for fire control and more resources to cope with critical fire periods, and a more intensive application of a program of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations.

A trend toward composite armour is taking place in place of steel-composites are stronger for a given weight, allowing the tank to be lighter for the same protection as steel armour, or better protected for the same weight.

Attempted explanations have included improved nutrition, a trend toward smaller families, better education, greater environmental complexity, and heterosis ( the occurrence of genetically superior offspring from mixing the genes of its parents ).

There is a trend toward vegetable oils rather than petroleum oils in recent years in response to a demand for better environmental sustainability.

The trend towards selling meat in pre-packaged cuts has increased the demand for larger breeds of cattle, which are better suited to producing such cuts.

For off-piste skis the trend is towards wider skis that better float on top of powder snow.

Since there is low error rate, there can only be high quality data that can be had to provide better support in the statistical analysis, trend and pattern spotting, and decision making tasks of a company.

It also led boys to reading words significantly better than girls, and there was a trend towards better spelling and reading comprehension.

Following the Crimean War, the trend was towards reducing military garrisons in colonies like Bermuda, partly for economic reasons, and partly as it became recognised that the Royal Navy's own ships could provide a better defence for the Dockyard, and Bermuda.

Chestnut-based recipes and preparations are making a comeback in Italian cuisine, as part of the trend toward rediscovery of traditional dishes and better nutrition.

Following the Crimean War, the trend was towards reducing military garrisons in colonies like Bermuda, partly for economic reasons, and partly as it became recognised that the Royal Navy's own ships could provide a better defence for the Dockyard, and Bermuda.

This trend is becoming quite common, and furthermore, many recent OVA series pre-broadcast the episodes and release the DVD with unedited and better quality, revised animations – thus further blurring the boundary between TV, and video anime.

The prevailing trend is for people to move from the village of their birth in far-lying rural communities into the city to make a " better " living.

By the 18th century, centralization was the trend in medicine because more and better educated doctors were requesting improved facilities.

JAIN is part of a general trend to open up service creation in the telephony network so that, by analogy with the Internet, openness should result in a growing number of participants creating services, in turn creating more demand and better, more targeted services.

While operating from a BPS framework requires that more information be gathered during a consultation, a growing trend in US healthcare ( and already well-established in Europe such as in the U. K. & Germany ) includes the integration of professional services through integrated disciplinary teams, to provide better care and address the patient's needs at all three levels.

Kyle acknowledged this trend in the season five ( 2001 ) episode " Cartmanland " when he states that he often gives the speech each week in an attempt to " try and better myself ", and again in the season seven ( 2003 ) episode " Butt Out " where he repeatedly reminds his friends that they continuously allow potentially riotous events to occur, and are only able to defuse the situation by giving such a speech to the gathered townsfolk.

More recently, as passeriform relationships become better resolved, there is an increasing trend to elevate the Eurylaimides to suborder rank.

The new trend is for larger aircraft with better economics, exemplified by Bombardier's 70-seat CRJ-700 and the 70-110-seat E-Jet series.

And I'm sure 90 % of teenage America would agree, since the whole trend in the business has been " faster is better.

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As with the Martini cocktail, the trend in recent years has been to use a larger proportion of gin, mainly because the quality of the spirit is a lot better than it used to be, meaning there is less need to dilute the gin to make it more palatable.

During the 2004 – 05 playoffs, Stackhouse began wearing pressure stockings during games to keep his legs warm to aid his groin injury and hold his thigh sleeves in place ; also allows for better blood flow to the legs ; the practice quickly became a trend among NBA players, with Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and others adopting pressure stockings the following season.