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.

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.

After 1950, the big band trend declined in number.

The inequality of opportunities has declined: between 1995 and 2006 Peru's rating on The World Bank's Human Opportunity Index improved substantially as increased public investment in water, sanitation and electric power has sustained the downward trend in inequality of opportunities.

This trend was apparent in government statistics for the 1986-87 period: the proportion of people fifty years old or older living in farming communities grew from 28. 7 % in 1986 to 30. 6 % in 1987, while the number of people in their twenties living in farming communities declined from 11. 3 % to 10. 8 %.

Subsequently the trend declined as economic conditions improved, to the point where there was net immigration in the years between 1982 and 1985.

The population of the county declined until 1980, when the trend reversed, and the white population increases put whites in the majority.

The result was that the trend of slow population growth was reversed and Trenton has slowly declined in population since that time.

Although modern critics of Carson have argued that the bird deaths were caused by other factors such as mercury poisoning in the soil, spraying against elm bark beetles declined very rapidly after 1962, a trend aided by fungicides without dangerous side-effects being discovered for the first time after many years of research.

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.

The population of the New Zealand Pigeon declined considerably after the arrival of humans in New Zealand, and this trend continues, especially in the North Island, but they are still relatively common in the west of the South Island and in coastal Otago.

Since then the unionist vote has declined further due to boundary changes, which excluded mainly unionist Dromore and Saintfield, and a trend for many unionists to vote for McGrady at Westminster elections.

The two-party preferred vote for the Liberals declined 3. 4 % in the 2004 election, contrary to a strong national trend to the coalition ( and a particularly strong one to the Coalition in outer-suburban metropolitan seats ), making Bennelong a marginal seat at that time, with a margin of just 4. 3 %.

Initially, the poverty rate declined as hyperinflation receded ( implying that the inflation tax was primarily absorbed by low-income households ), but after the Mexican crisis the trend reversed.

After peaking in 2007, the gyaru trend appears to have declined in Japan, but has gained in popularity in China.

Still, given that the sources of this data has remained the same for the past 15 years, we can at least see a trend of unemployment staying high throughout this period, but rising sharply in the mid to late 90's peaking at 70 % in 1999 ( 2000 CIA World Factbook is the source for that number ), and then decreasing to the usual rates of around 50 % in recent years.

A common trend throughout the 20th century, in both opera and general orchestral repertoire, is the use of smaller orchestras as a cost-cutting measure ; the grand Romantic-era orchestras with huge string sections, multiple harps, extra horns, and exotic percussion instruments were no longer feasible.

The population of Piedmont followed a downward trend throughout the 1980s.

) The leporids first appeared in the late Eocene and rapidly spread throughout the northern hemisphere ; they show a trend towards increasingly long hind limbs as the modern leaping gait developed.

A primary trend has broad support throughout the entire market ( most sectors ) and lasts for a year or more.

Swords with exceptionally long hilts are found throughout the High Middle Ages, but these remain exceptional specimens, and not representative of an identifiable trend, until the late 13th or early 14th century.

This trend continued throughout the 20th century ; more and more hotels and tourist facilities were built in the town, and Looe grew and prospered, with peaks in fishing and boatbuilding following the First and Second World Wars.

Despite this recent trend, Lake Clarke Shores has maintained itself, as it has throughout its history, as an attractive residential enclave that is attainable to middle as well as more upper income households.

The entrance to the 28 m shaft was built on the north side of the pyramid, a trend that would remain throughout the Old Kingdom.

Dramatic demographic change fueled ethnic and religious tension throughout the northern United States following World War I, and Niles proved to be no exception to this trend.

Citizens had been especially concerned that if the borough chose to follow the consultant's advice to " monetize the system ," that the system would be sold to a multinational corporation, as was an increasing trend throughout the region.

The trend of the keyhole kofun first spread from Yamato to Kawachi ( where gigantic kofun such as Daisenryō Kofun exist ), and then throughout the country ( except for Tōhoku region ) in the 5th century.

By dropping the seduction theory, Dr. Masson concluded, " Freud began a trend away from the real world that, it seems to me, has come to a dead halt in the present-day sterility of psychoanalysis throughout the world.

Some luthiers and repairmen attribute this to a gradual trend of misplacing the bridge on these guitars: the same jigs for bridge placement were used throughout the history of each model's production.

Though moralists protested and clergymen preached against such activities, the carnivalesque phenomenon became a trend throughout 18th-century London.

By introducing the miniskirt into the haute couture of the fashion industry, Courrèges gave it a greater degree of respectability than might otherwise have been expected of a street fashion .. An even more prominent French fashion designer, Yves St. Laurent, began to show shorter skirts in his fall / winter 1965 collection, including his famous " Mondrian " dress ( inspired by the work of painter Piet Mondrian ), a trend that he continued with throughout the 1960s, although he became more famous during this period for introducing the concept of the formal trouser suit for women into haute couture.

-Age distributions not reflective of the general population instead favoring older more conservative age groups ( Although the over all effect of this is unknown as approval and disapproval varied significantly throughout age groups without clear trend towards changing attitudes with age ).

This was a trend that would continue on subsequent covers throughout the 1970s and beyond.

Nonetheless, Abigail and Betty ’ s trend of accusing innocents rapidly spread throughout Salem and nearby villages ( especially Andover ), leading to the death of several innocent people.

As well as its fusion with rock and pop, Electronic continued their interest in dance music by inviting DJs to remix their singles and album tracks ; this was a trend that continued throughout their career.

The Peace of Augsburg ( 1555 ) generally, and the principle of cuius regio, eius religio specifically, marked the end of the first wave of organized military action between Protestants and Catholics ; however, its limitations did not address the emerging trend toward religious pluralism ( co-existence within a single territory ) developing throughout the German-speaking lands of the Holy Roman Empire.

The 1989 Rover 200 was a strong seller throughout its life and its successor continued this trend, though its final year of production ( 1999 ) saw a significant dip in sales.

There was again a decrease with the trend throughout the years with sex offenses from 1997-2006 being-16 % and from 2005-2006 being-9 %.