What makes the current phenomenon unique is that so many science-fiction writers have reversed a trend and turned to writing works critical of the impact of science and technology on human life.

While it is hazardous to project the trend of history, it seems clear that a genuine community is painfully emerging in the Western world, particularly among the countries of Western Europe.

each is so typical that it represents a prominent trend in the poet's development.

His suggestion that the prestige colleges be made the training institutions for medical, law and graduate schools will run into strong opposition from these colleges themselves -- even though what he is recommending is already taking shape as a trend.

Possibly responsible for this is the incoming trend toward multicolor schemes in rooms, which seems slated to replace the one-color look to which we have been accustomed.

But once the strike trend hits hoosegows, there is no telling how far it may go.

There is a trend to packaging meat at a central source, freezing it, and shipping it to outlying stores, where meat cutters will not be required.

There is a trend today to bemoan the fact that Americans are too `` soft ''.

Competitors came to receive higher percentage of General Motors business in later years, but it is `` likely '' that this trend stemmed `` at least in part '' from the needs of General Motors outstripping Du Pont's capacity.

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.

Although the Brandywine population is still predominantly rural, `` there are indications of a consistent and a statistically significant trend away from the older and relatively isolated rural communities.

An important recent trend is the development of area vocational schools.

Even if we strip their respective claims to the barest minimum, the `` odds '' still favor them both, for the trend in effect is always more likely to continue than to reverse.

That reference in the Report is `` continuation of the trend toward an all-Negro school system '', a remark apparently occasioned by the increase of Negro school population from 74.1 per cent to 76.7 per cent.

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.

Today's trend toward furniture designs from America's past is teaching home-owners and decorators a renewed respect for the shrewd cabinetmakers of our Colonial era.

Indication: The long-term trend of turnpike traffic is upward.

The temptation is to say that, as the percentage of church members mounted, the degree of discipline exercised by the churches lessened and the trend was towards conformity to the general level.

Astatine is sometimes described as being a black solid ( assuming that it follows this trend ), or as having a metallic appearance ( if it is a metalloid or a metal ).

The following is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Azerbaijan at market prices with figures in millions of Manats.

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.

This went against the trend towards filmic restraint already visible in what were called " polite " comedies from other film companies.

The general trend in the development of cinema, led from the United States, was towards using the newly developed specifically filmic devices for expression of the narrative content of film stories, and combining this with the standard dramatic structures already in use in commercial theatre.

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 ).

He saw the establishment of what he called Threefold Social Order as a vital response to what he saw as an already visible trend toward the mutual independence of these three realms.

A number of vendors, including Qualcomm, are attempting to enter the PC market with ARM-based devices dubbed smartbooks, riding on the netbook trend and rising acceptance of GNU / Linux distributions, a number of which already have ARM builds.

The majority of recent population growth in Canada's three largest metropolitan areas ( Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal, and Greater Vancouver ) has occurred in non-core municipalities, although this trend has already reversed itself in Toronto, where a building boom has begun to take place.

Isabella and Mortimer had already begun a trend that continued over the next few years, in starting to accumulate huge wealth.

Technicians use these surveys to help determine whether a trend will continue or if a reversal could develop ; they are most likely to anticipate a change when the surveys report extreme investor sentiment Surveys that show overwhelming bullishness, for example, are evidence that an uptrend may reverse ; the premise being that if most investors are bullish they have already bought the market ( anticipating higher prices ).

This trend had already featured in some of the administrative reforms of Justinian I in the 530s.

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

Carl was already sending demos to New York record companies, who kept rejecting him, sometimes explaining that this strange new style of country with a pronounced rhythm fit no current commercial trend.

Although popular works, including popular poems or collections of poems, were already being distributed for private reading and study in manuscript form, there can be little doubt that the introduction of cheap printing technologies accelerated this trend considerably.

She did not realize that his infant thoughts were of a repressed and furtive trend ; that when he waved his wooden spoon and gurgled, he was marshalling secret armies in craggy places, or that his wondering unfathomable eyes, jet black and shining, screened from her view a world of incipient revolution, wherein already he was blowing up Emperors and dethroning Popes.

Thus, it appears that the move toward heavier framing, a trend that dominates the history of the piano, had already begun in Cristofori's own building practice.

Box Set Weekend began the trend for MTV2 to play fewer music videos and more archived MTV specials, which may have annoyed and alienated some of MTV2's original viewers, who had initially tuned in just to see the videos, without having to sit through documentaries and interviews which could already be seen on MTV and VH1.

This trend would continue again in Survivor Vanuatu ; however, the difference here is that the tribes were divided before the game starts, whereas the tribes were divided by the chiefs in Vanuatu, when the game had already begun.

By the 1780s, young men were setting a fashion trend by lightly powdering their natural hair, as women had already done from the 1770s onwards.

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.

This trend has also been observed in Catholic departments such as Lozère, Cantal and Haute-Loire ( though the Socialists were already strong in secular logging areas ).

This trend was present already in the 1920s and 1930s, for example in the music of Béla Bartók, Henry Cowell, Colin McPhee, Alan Hovhaness, and Lou Harrison, and slightly later in the work of Olivier Messiaen, Chou Wen-chung, Halim El-Dabh, and Peggy Glanville-Hicks.

What emerged out of the exigencies of the Nanboku-chō ( Southern and Northern Court ) War was the Muromachi regime, which broadened the economic base of the warriors while undercutting the noble proprietors, a trend that had started already with the Kamakura bakufu.

This trend is causing growing concern throughout currency tracking sites around the world, already having decimated New Zealand and Vietnam.

By the time this occurred, many jobs in the textile industry were already moving overseas, a trend that accelerated in the 1980s.