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.

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).

Due to the recent managerial trend of granting playing time to as many available players as possible within the regulation nine innings, both managers had used their entire roster.

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

Climate-wise, the Earth had begun a drying and cooling trend, culminating in the glaciations of the Pleistocene Epoch, and partially offset by the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.

From the earliest times knights and mounted men-at-arms had frequently dismounted to handle enemies they could not overcome on horseback, such as in the Battle of the Dyle ( 891 ) and the Battle of Bremule ( 1119 ), but after 1350s this trend became more marked with the dismounted men-at-arms fighting as super-heavy infantry with two-handed swords and poleaxes.

The trend during World War I had been towards larger destroyers with heavier armaments.

With the string section laid off, synthesisers took a dominating role, as was the trend in the larger music scene of the time, although studio strings were present on some of the tracks conducted by Rainer Pietsch, the overall soundscape had a more electronic feel in keeping with the futuristic nature of the album.

Along with a current trend towards environmentalism, people in Western culture have had an increasing trend towards the use of herbal supplements, foods for a specific group of person ( such as dieters, women, or athletes ), functional foods ( fortified foods, such as omega-3 eggs ), and a more ethnically diverse diet.

The study, released on May 25, 2007, emphasized that in real dollars, this generation's men made less ( by 12 %) than their fathers had at that same age in 1974, thus reversing a historical trend.

Under the next three centuries of Hellenistic Egypt, the Coptic writing system evolved and the Library of Alexandria was opened, and this likely had an influence upon books of magic, with the trend on known incantations switching from simple health and protection charms to more specific things such as financial success and sexual fullfillment.

Mirroring the long downward trend in the popularity of variety shows in general that had taken place in the 1970s, ratings began to decline for Hee Haw by the mid-1980s, a trend that continued into the early 1990s.

An increasingly disturbing trend had arisen-sectarian fighting.

In it, as Isidore entered his own terse digest of Roman handbooks, miscellanies and compendia, he continued the trend towards abridgements and summaries that had characterised Roman learning in Late Antiquity.

Both Henry II and Richard had argued that kings possessed a quality of " divine majesty "; John continued this trend and claimed an " almost imperial status " for himself as ruler.

Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.

As early as 1938, Theodor Adorno had already identified a trend toward the dissolution of " a culturally dominant set of values " ( Beard and Gloag 2005, 141 ), citing the commodification of all genres as beginning of the end of genre or value distinctions in music ( Adorno 2002, 293 – 95 ).

The teaching of evolution expanded, as fundamentalist efforts to use state laws to reverse the trend had failed in the court of public opinion.

The trend in modern submachine guns had been toward lighter, smaller weapons utilizing plastics to a greater degree.

In their book, Gross and Levitt reported an anti-intellectual trend in university liberal arts departments ( especially English departments ) which had caused them to become dominated by a " trendy " branch of post-modernist deconstructionism.

The late 1990s saw a trend towards " wood finishes " in which fully matured whisky is moved from one barrel into another one that had previously aged a different type of alcohol ( e. g., port, Madeira, rum, wine, etc.

For many years, Curry was reluctant to talk about Rocky Horror, feeling that it was a trend that had gone too far and had distracted attention away from his later roles.