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.

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.

Attempted explanations have included improved nutrition, a trend toward smaller families, better education, greater environmental complexity, and heterosis ( the occurrence of genetically superior offspring from mixing the genes of its parents ).

This relatively lenient filtering policy coincided with what was arguably a trend toward greater openness and increasing freedom of the press.

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

Beginning in the 1960s, Eastern European skaters started a trend to dance in more open positions, which allowed for greater speed over the ice, more upper-body involvement, and greater projection towards the audience.

The symbolist poets wished to liberate techniques of versification in order to allow greater room for " fluidity ", and as such were sympathetic with the trend toward free verse, as evident by the poems of Gustave Kahn and Ezra Pound.

Additionally, the greater variety of jobs, opportunities, and salaries on offer overseas for New Zealand students graduating from an established university increases the trend.

The greater the range suggests a stronger trend.

The general trend is that the northern part of Great Neck ( north of the LIRR tracks ) has a greater number of Iranian families, while the southern part ( south of the LIRR tracks ) has a larger East Asian population.

The trend toward " new dimensions and greater depth " in the composer's style was continued by the song cycle Tel jour, telle nuit ( 1937 ) and Concerto in G minor for organ, strings, and timpani ( 1938 ).

In the late 20th and early 21st centuries the trend has been towards authenticity ; most contemporary performances show a greater fidelity towards Handel's original intentions, although " big Messiah " productions continue to be mounted.

Against the falling trend of land set aside for allotments is an increasing awareness of the need for cities to counter issues of food security and climate change through greater self-sufficiency.

Starting in the mid-sixties, albums became a greater focus and more important as artists created albums of uniformly high quality and coherent themes, a trend which reached its apex in the development of the concept album.

During the past few decades ( since the folk-rock trend ), folk musicians have displayed a greater interest in experimentation.

The trend towards sustainable management means that organizations are beginning to implement a systems wide approach that links in the various parts of the business with the greater environment at large.

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.

The trend to monoculture means that greater concentrations of pollinators are needed at bloom time than ever before, yet the area is forage poor or even deadly to bees for the rest of the season.

Although the trend in mainland China clearly is toward greater media autonomy and diversity and away from government control and intimidation, crosscurrents of resistance persist.

The trend in art was also towards greater idealism, which is contrary to realism, in that the figures depicted were made simpler and more abstract — idealized — in order to be able to represent the ideals they stood in for.

U. S. deregulation has been part of a greater global airline liberalization trend, especially in Asia, Latin America, and the EU.

However, an even greater transition occurred after Waylon Jennings was able to secure his own recording rights, and began the trend of bucking the " Nashville Sound.

The case marked the beginning of a trend of greater acceptance and tolerance of free speech.

Some governments have responded to this emerging situation with policies and regulations aimed at reversing this trend by increasing urban densities, encouraging mixed use development, reducing the space allocated to the private car, and lending greater support to cycling, walking, and public transport.