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.

Our current rate of incoming orders has now contracted and unless this trend can be reversed, our production for 1961 will be lower than for 1960.

Some of this trend toward area vocational schools has been related to the problems of persistent labor surplus areas and their desire to attract new industry.

In urethane foams, for example, there has been a definite trend toward the polyether-type materials ( which are now available in two-component rigid foam systems ) and the emphasis is definitely on one-shot molding.

In some countries the trend has gone further than others: Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela are displaying open sympathy for Castroism, and there is no country -- save the Dominican Republic whose funeral services we recently arranged -- where Castroism and Anti-Americanism does not prevent the government from unqualifiedly espousing the American cause.

This trend has often been ascribed to the cult of the Five Elements itself, as though they had served as the base for all the rest ; ;

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

Modern Westerners have difficulty comprehending this fusion of moral and material, largely because in the West the historical trend has been to deny the connection.

An increase in literacy has, historically, sometimes spawned a trend toward abbreviation.

“ Baby Signs ” was developed by Dr. Linda Acredolo and Dr. Susan Goodwyn in the early 1980s, and has become a persistent trend in child development.

This widely observed trend is described by Moore's law, which has proven to be a fairly accurate predictor of the growth of CPU ( and other IC ) complexity.

Of this trend, it has been said that the concept of a pure accident is no longer permitted in a news item.

The trend of jewelry-making at home by hobbyists for personal enjoyment or for sale on sites like Etsy has resulted in the common practice of buying wholesale costume jewelry in bulk and using it for parts.

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.

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.

Many CBT treatment programs for specific disorders have been evaluated for efficacy ; the health-care trend of evidence-based treatment, where specific treatments for symptom-based diagnoses are recommended, has favored CBT over other approaches such as psychodynamic treatments.

The harvest of coyote pelts in Texas has varied over the past few decades, but has generally followed a downward trend.

Another trend in Western scholarship of China has been to move away from " grand theories " of history, toward an understanding of a narrow part of China.

This trend has also seen the emergence of some Christadelphian bands and the establishment of the Christadelphian Arts Trust to support performing, visual and dramatic arts within the Christadelphian community.

It has been speculated that this trend may continue in the future to the point where liberal democratic nation-states become the universal standard form of human society.

In " The Human Zoo ", Morris postulates that human society has moved from small scattered tribes to highly compressed urban civilization and that this trend has placed growing psychological and sociological pressure on humans which leads to both a greater chance for mankind to understand himself but also leads to irrational and unnatural human behavior which can manifest itself into severe psychological problems.

Zodiacal light and the gegenschein give some evidence for such a dust blanket, a phenomenon also to be expected if the dust before capture is in circular orbits about the sun, as indicated by the trend of the smaller visible meteors.

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

The melting and boiling points of astatine are also expected to follow the trend seen in the halogen series, increasing with atomic number.

Probably the desire, particularly in German service, for anti-aircraft vehicles to be armoured for their own protection also assisted this trend.

The change to the dollar also precipitated a trend toward lower interest rates in El Salvador, helping many to secure credit in order to buy a house or a car ; over time, displeasure with the change has largely disappeared, though the issue resurfaces as a political tool when elections are on the horizon.

These strategies can also be divided into trend or counter-trend approaches depending on whether the fund attempts to profit from following trends ( long or short-term ) or attempts to anticipate and profit from reversals in trends.

Reporting on these developments in his annual report to the Authority in April 2008, Secretary-General Nandan referred also to the upward trend in demand and prices for cobalt, copper, nickel and manganese, the main metals that would be derived from seabed mining, and he noted that technologies being developed for offshore extraction could be adapted for deep sea mining.

This trend towards placing Arthur in a historical setting is also apparent in historical and fantasy novels published during this period.

( the tailor is accused of stealing cloth while making breeches, this is a joke about a fashion trend in Shakespearian times, also a pun for roasting the tailor's iron with the heat of hell )

Recently this trend has become very popular amongst amateur singers in Japan, also India and China.

On the other hand a libertarian trend also developed within marxism which gained visibility around the late 1910s mainly in reaction against Bolshevism and Leninism rising to power and establishing the Soviet Union.

The back to basics trend was also evident in The Rolling Stones ' albums starting from Beggar's Banquet ( 1968 ) to Exile on Main St. ( 1972 ).

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.

This trend is also beginning to take effect in Vancouver, and to a lesser extent, Montreal.

The book also argues that those with high intelligence, the " cognitive elite ", are becoming separated from those of average and below-average intelligence, and that this is a dangerous social trend with the United States moving toward a more divided society similar to that in Latin America.

A recent trend of slang among the youth of Rio de Janeiro also resembles verlan.

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.

This period also saw the disappearance of a large number of actors and actresses who had characterized the realistic pre-Code era but who were not suited to the new trend into moral and idealized pictures.

Yojimbo was also the origin of the " Man with No Name " trend which included Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly both also starring Clint Eastwood, and arguably continued through his 1968 opus Once Upon a Time in the West, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, and Jason Robards.

Another recent trend has been that of Mauritian youngsters going to Malaysia for higher studies, encouraged by the affordable fees and quality of life.

Spawn was a popular hero in the 1990s and encouraged a trend in creator-owned comic book properties.

Later, " Sodbuster " and " Swampbuster " restrictions written into federal farm programs starting in the 1970s reversed a decades-long trend of habitat destruction that began in 1942 when farmers were encouraged to plant all possible land in support of the war effort.

He used extravagant rhetorical gestures, including word-painting and unusual chromatic relationships, a trend encouraged by visionary music theorist Nicola Vicentino.

The trend toward larger brewing companies started to change during the 1970s when the popularity of the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA )' s campaign for traditional brewing methods, and the success of Michael Jackson's World Guide to Beer, encouraged brewers in the UK such as Peter Austin to form their own small breweries or brewpubs.

The trend towards more intensive farming began to be partially reversed by the end of the century as more environmentally friendly practices were encouraged by government and European Union grants.

Sunflowers encouraged a trend for the slavers to live in isolated manors, surrounded by slaves.

Based around " the total concept look ," it encouraged customers to mix and match within a style, resulting in customers having both trend and buying more.

Observance began in 1993 and has grown significantly ever since ; for the general public to show support, it is encouraged for the public to not use their taps throughout the whole day, the day has become a popular Facebook trend.

A 1989 decentralisation law contributed to the trend ; from 1993, state governors could request the transfer of public healthcare in their state to their control, and the inability to cope with the new responsibility encouraged cuts and privatisation.

Urbanization and growing immigration have encouraged cross-ethnic marriages between Baluchis and Persians ; this trend shows that Chabahar is in transition from a traditionalist society to a modern city.

This encouraged other gang members to steal uniforms for themselves, becoming a sort of trend among the prominent gang members.

His philosophy is also important in that it encouraged the samurai class to cultivate themselves, a trend which would become increasingly widespread over the course of his lifetime and beyond.

After the war the area became less desirable as the trend towards suburban living encouraged many residents to move out to the outskirts of the city.

It was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, launching a trend that encouraged thousands of kids to become interested in software.

Those leaving to found the new organization were encouraged by the rapid growth of the so-called impossibilist movement in Canada and were deeply discouraged by the growing trend towards reformism in the SPA.

The municipality has encouraged this trend further, for example by employing old-fashioned street lampposts instead of modern lighting along Rivadavia Avenue.