This can be accomplished substantially by a continued trend toward better facilities and techniques for fire control and more resources to cope with critical fire periods, and a more intensive application of a program of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations.

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.

If Couperin shows the fashionable trend, the others do so all the more.

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

Following the trend of Romanticism, which greatly emphasised the role and the nature of the individual, and in the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, a more intimate form of autobiography, exploring the subject's emotions, came into fashion.

They marked a shift from a largely apophatic ( negative ) philosophical trend within Buddhism to a decidedly more cataphatic ( positive ) modus.

As television became filled with family-oriented comedies, the 1950s saw a trend toward more adult social situations.

During the 20th century, this trend continued with more modern and powerful revolver cartridges, in the form of Winchester and Marlin lever action carbines chambered in. 38 Special /. 357 Magnum and. 44 Special /. 44 Magnum.

This fossil species bears a combination of features that definitively mark it as a canid: teeth that include the loss of the upper third molar ( a general trend toward a more shearing bite ), and the characteristically enlarged bony bulla ( the rounded covering over the middle ear ).

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.

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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.

They were originally identified as outliers to a general trend of decreasing extinction rates during the Phanerozoic, but as more stringent statistical tests have been applied to the accumulating data, the " Big Five " cannot be so clearly defined, but rather appear to represent the largest ( or some of the largest ) of a relatively smooth continuum of extinction events.

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.

While some conservative evangelicals believe the label has broadened too much beyond its more limiting traditional distinctives, this trend is nonetheless strong enough to create significant ambiguity in the term.

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.

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Its total population size is suspected to be fewer than 10, 000 mature individuals, with a decreasing population trend and no single population numbering more than 1, 000 adults.

It has been listed as Vulnerable by IUCN in 2002 as the total effective population size is below 10, 000 mature individuals, with a declining trend due to habitat loss, and no subpopulation containing more than 1, 000 mature breeding individuals.

Primitive flowering plants have seeds that have small embryos and abundant endosperm, and the evolutionary development of flowering plants tends to show a trend towards plants with mature seeds with little or no endosperm.

In 2002, the IUCN classified the kodkod as Vulnerable as the total effective population size may be fewer than 10, 000 mature individuals, with a declining trend due to habitat and prey base loss and persecution, and no subpopulation having an effective population size larger than 1, 000 mature breeding individuals.

The first trend was the consolidation of the Argentine Invasion bands into somewhat more mature rock groups.

Much of the LIM PDO predictability arises from ENSO and the global trend rather than extra-tropical processes and is thus limited to ~ 4 season, the prediction is consistent with the seasonal footprinting mechanism < ref name =" Vimont 2003 "> in which an optimal SST structure evolve into the ENSO mature phase 6 – 10 months later that subsequently impact the North Pacific Ocean SST via the atmospheric bridge.

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.

Old Sleuth, appearing in The Fireside Companion story paper beginning in 1872, was the first dime novel detective and began the trend away from the western and frontier stories that dominated the story papers and dime novels up to that time.

This trend also is evident in many Celtic myths, such as the ( Welsh ) mabinogi stories of Culhwch and Olwen, or the ( Irish ) Ulster Cycle, most notably the key facts to the Cúchulainn cycle that Cúchulainn gets his final secret training with a warrior woman, Scáthach, and becomes lover both to her and her daughter ; and the root of the Táin Bó Cuailnge, that while Ailill may wear the crown of Connacht, it is his wife Medb who is the real power, and she needs to affirm her equality to her husband by owning chattels as great as he does.

Such stories subsequently remained an oddity, with the current trend for historical whodunnits only really beginning in the late 1970s with the success of Ellis Peters and her Brother Cadfael novels, set in medieval Shrewsbury.

From this point onward, the artist developed ideologically, amidst the collapse of his country and the Second World War, and so did the series: the general trend of the postwar stories is to become more progressive and universalist.

From 2003-2008, reflecting a trend initiated in European Disney comics, Zeke Wolf increasingly often featured as the title character in new stories himself, although Li ' l Wolf continued to play a major role.

The first trend, retro-futurism proper, is directly inspired by the imagined future which existed in the minds of writers, artists, and filmmakers in the pre-1960 period who attempted to predict the future, either in serious projections of existing technology ( e. g. in magazines like Science and Invention ) or in science fiction novels and stories.

Scribe is part of a trend of " think tank journalism " using the knowledge of Heritage policy experts to inform investigative stories.

Also notable is that a large number of the characters in her stories are also of African American descent, though the trend dies off later on in the series.

The tale continues the general downward trend of the preceding tales — the Knight's, the Miller's and the Reeve's tale — into ever-more-seedy stories.

Over the next few years, the number of novelists who picked up on the procedural trend grew to include writers like Ben Benson, who wrote carefully researched novels about the Massachusetts State Police, retired police officer Maurice Procter, who wrote a series about North England cop Harry Martineau, and Jonathan Craig, who wrote short stories and novels about New York City police officers.

The film was part of an 80s trend to make vampire figures from stories of old more applicable to audiences, one that included 1987's western-gothic Near Dark and the suburban Fright Night of 1985.

Kosner's magazine tended toward a mix of newsmagazine-style stories, trend pieces, and pure " service " features — long articles on shopping and other consumer subjects — as well as close coverage of the glitzy 1980s New York City scene epitomized by financiers Donald Trump and Saul Steinberg.

They continued a similar trend in the next two series, with two 3-part stories in Series 15, entitled The Purple Pimple and Magnetic Barry.

Another trend that has emerged in modern Yakshagana is the incorporation of movie stories. Yakshagana has undergone innovation in dance and theatre, which includes performances of Shakespeare.

In these and other stories, Anvil's technique is to put forth a gadget, invention, or social trend and logically develop the consequences.

Upon publication, Alternadad received a flurry of press, largely in the form of trend stories about " hipster parents.

The magazine runs regular investigative features such as School Time Confidential, trend stories in Fad Forecast and the award winning photocomic Screwed.

Under Katzman's lead, Dallas, whose first episodes had consisted of stand-alone stories, evolved into a serial, leading into the ' 80s trend of prime time soap operas.

While the larger trend eventually faded, contemporary social commentary has remained in superhero stories to this day.