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.

The use of this term illustrates a past trend towards referring to the whole continent of Africa by the name Aethiopia.

In marked contrast to earlier constructions and villages on top of the mesas, the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde reflected a region-wide trend towards the aggregation of growing regional populations into close, highly defensible quarters during the 13th century.

In the 18th century the " dominant trend " in Britain, particularly in Latitudinarianism, was towards Arianism, with which the names of Samuel Clarke, Benjamin Hoadly, William Whiston and Isaac Newton are associated.

This is the reason behind the trend towards outsourcing in the financial sector.

The trend of building upwards for offices that emerged towards the beginning of the 19th century displaced brick in favor of cast and wrought iron and later steel and concrete.

Trilobites are rarer than in previous periods, on a steady trend towards extinction, represented only by the proetid group.

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.

As a general trend, the modern slants on the cosmological argument, including the Kalam argument, tend to lean very strongly towards an in fieri argument.

Critics of Boswell have pointed out that many earlier doctrinal sources condemn homosexuality in ethical terms without prescribing a punishment, and that Boswell's citations reflected a general trend towards harsher penalties from the 12th century onwards.

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

A trend towards bigger drum kits in Rock music began in the 1960s and gained momentum in the 1970s.

Historically, electronics labs have consisted of electronics devices and equipment located in a physical space, although in more recent years the trend has been towards electronics lab simulation software, such as CircuitLogix, Multisim, and PSpice.

There is a recent trend towards multi-denominational schools established by parents, which are organised as limited companies without share capital.

Whereas the current Finnish administration ( notably Jutta Urpilainen ) has been more hesitant towards the EU monetary policy than the previous ones, Eurobarometers and other polls have shown that among Finnish citizens, the opinion trend has been somewhat reversed during recent years.

As Industrialization became more prominent as well as the increasing trend towards Urbanization the conservative environmental movement began.

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.

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

Once underway, the trend was aided by the move towards the increasing use of cuts within scenes in American films.

Although some European film-makers picked up the trend towards using dialogue titles, they did not pick up on the move towards cutting them into the scene at the point at which they were actually spoken until a few years later.

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.

Jacobean drama continued the trend of stage violence and horror set by Elizabethan tragedy, under the influence of Seneca, and there is a great deal of all that in the later scenes of the play.

The show's endings not only have evolved with the times ( tragedy used to be the trend, but now lighter, happier endings are preferred ), but have kept with the theme, getting progressively more positive as ' spring ' approaches.

In an attempt to reverse the downhill trend by stimulating the bone marrow and controlling any hemolytic component, triamcinolone, 16 mg. daily, was begun on Sept. 26, 1958, and continued until Feb. 18, 1959.

The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.

To many experts, this trend was inevitable.

Virtually everyone agrees, however, that the trend toward female sexual aggressiveness was tremendously accelerated with the postwar rush to the suburbs.

This was part of a more general trend of postmodernism that was popular contemporaneously.

“ 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.

The transition from Miacidae to Carnivora was a general trend in the middle and late Eocene, with taxa from both North America and Eurasia involved.

This trend was due to intense volcanic activity which produced large quantities of carbon dioxide.

A popular trend during the 1920s and afterward was comedy in the form of animated cartoons.

The trend among the young historians was to either write about the new empire or obscure antiquarian subjects.

In a tribute, Mike Brown named the stadium after his father during a time when it was a trend in the NFL to accept corporate offers to have the stadium renamed for a corporation.

Most Arthurian romances of this period produced in English or Welsh did not follow this trend ; Camelot was referred to infrequently, and usually in translations from French.

It is unclear to what extent Chaucer was responsible for starting a trend rather than simply being part of it.

In the 21st century a new trend of NoSQL databases was started.

The trend of releasing director's cuts was first introduced in the early 1980s alongside the rise of the home video industry.

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.

The long trend of growth in living standards paired with diminishing differences between social classes was dramatically reversed during the 1990s.

This trend was followed in Italy, Denmark, and Sweden.

The commercial and critical success of Sternberg's silent Underworld in 1927 was largely responsible for spurring a trend of Hollywood gangster films.

" Stranger on the Third Floor was not recognized as the beginning of a trend, let alone a new genre, for many decades.