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 trend has also encouraged fake autobiographies, particularly those associated with ' misery lit ,' where the writer has allegedly suffered from being a part of a dysfunctional family, or from social problems, or political repression.

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.

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.

Evidence of this trend can best be seen in the recent activities of such leading companies in the field as Advance Neon Sign Co., Los Angeles, Calif..

The Berriasian epoch showed a cooling trend that had been seen in the last epoch of the Jurassic.

Le déjeuner ( lunch ) is a two hour mid-day meal, but it has recently seen a trend towards the one hour lunch break.

An extreme version of this trend can be seen in the Disney cartoon version, for example, which depicts John, voiced by Peter Ustinov, as a " cowardly, thumbsucking lion ".

The past decade has seen a trend of increased focus on digital over print resources in the libraries.

This process is seen as a step towards the current trend whereby universities in Australia are reducing the amount of named degrees in order to simplify enrolment and to maintain the competitiveness of Australian degrees globally in accordance with the Bologna Accord.

A recent trend seen in the Israel Defense Forces, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is the development and introduction of exceptionally well-armored APCs ( HAPC ) such as the IDF Achzarit which are converted from obsolete Main Battle Tanks ( such as the Russian T-55 ).

The number of hard drug addicts has stabilized in the past few years and their average age has risen to 38 years, which is generally seen as a positive trend.

Orchestral endowments and — more centrally to the daily operation of American orchestras — orchestral donors have seen investment portfolios shrink or produce lower yields, reducing the ability of donors to contribute ; further, there has been a trend toward donors finding other social causes more compelling.

In the early 16th century, there is another trend towards simplification, as can be seen to some degree in the work of Josquin des Prez and his contemporaries in the Franco-Flemish School, then later in that of G. P. Palestrina, who was partially reacting to the strictures of the Council of Trent, which discouraged excessively complex polyphony as inhibiting understanding the text.

Recent decades have seen this trend spread to European nations such as the Czech Republic.

Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama is credited for popularizing a general trend seen in many popular shōnen manga of today, with notable authors of other shōnen manga such as Yoshihiro Togashi, Eiichiro Oda, Gosho Aoyama, Masashi Kishimoto, Tite Kubo and Yusuke Murata paying homage to his impact and influence on their work.

A trend seen in several sitcoms of the late 2000s was the absence of a laugh track.

Latin Americans have been seen to be showing an increasing trend in the issues on which they vote for, causing them to become more united when faced with political views.

Curiously, in opposition to the trend seen in evening dress, the less formal stroller is now extraordinarily rare, whereas morning dress is still relatively common.

This trend can be seen in Syriana, the Bourne film series and the more recent James Bond films Casino Royale ( 2006 ) and Quantum of Solace ( 2008 ).

For example, the black metal band Abigor incorporated Viking themes on their album Nachthymnen, but stated about the first track on the album that " this vision should not be seen as a part of the upcoming Viking trend.

In time they had increased their power well beyond military matters, and had become the real administrators and executive power of the province, a trend seen in the other gouvernements of France, but particularly acute in Languedoc, where the duke of Montmorency, governor of Languedoc, even openly rebelled against the king, then was defeated and beheaded in Toulouse in 1632 by the order of Richelieu.

In doing so, he mirrored a trend seen in almost every town across the country — major retailers relocated from historic downtowns to larger facilities on their outskirts.

A similar trend can be seen at Rothesay where William Burges renovated the older castle to produce a more " authentic " design, heavily influenced by the work of the French architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.

A theme seen in many of Latrobe's designs are plans with squarish-dimensions and a central, multi-story hall with a cupola to provide lighting, which was contrary to the popular trend of the time of building houses with long narrow plans.

This trend can be recognised in the United States of America, where the shift can be seen amongst the post-Civil War presidents.

This trend is already being seen with an increase in wagons being sold in the United States.