For every trend on this planet, there's a counter trend.

There is also a trend towards games that are good for you.

These examples indicate a trend.

There is a trend here.

We have a decent trend.

This is a welcome trend.

This is a positive trend.

Crime statistics show a positive trend.

This trend is accentuated for women, who enjoy a longer life expectancy than men.

But you see a very clear trend.

Unfortunately, the current trend is towards underrepresentation for Asia.

The disease showed an upward trend, both for men and women, but since 2000, the trend has presented a tendency for stabilisation, in the sense that the number of stated new infections per year remains stable.

In spite of a declining trend, abortion still continues to be a widespread method for regulating the birthrate.

And this is the trend in well being over that time, a small increase, but this is the trend in ecological footprint.

A study by the Economic Commission for Africa showed a clear trend upwards in governance in 28 African countries.

And that's a very important trend to think about.

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This chart is going to document a very similar trend.

We all have the power to change this trend for the better.

The rising trend of extra budgetary funding was becoming a worry.

A new trend shows a growing concentration of trade in some developing countries.

have got these surveys in place in their database, then they use advanced mathematical formulas to produce a trend line, and the trend line looks like this.

Whenever you're told that some existing statistical trend will continue, but you aren't given a hard to vary account of what causes that trend, you're being told a wizard did it.

In fact, the trend was for disengagement with the rest of the world.

By the end of 2001 onwards, it shows a steady downward trend.

These projects, which privilege the electoral over elections , are a positive trend.

In recent years, there had been a significant trend towards trade liberalization.

That trend must be reversed.

That trend should be encouraged.

Overall, the month of October saw a continuation of this extremely worrying trend.

During the past decade, drug abuse had been on a sharp upward trend.

And in fact, that's actually sustaining a long standing trend that predates human beings, OK, that biological evolution was doing for us.

But this trend is less unambiguous.

So where does this trend stop?

The current trend is toward decentralization.

This trend seems to have continued.

Let us hope that it is only a temporary trend, since it runs counter to the fervent desire of humankind for peaceful coexistence.

There was also a trend toward the creation of umbrella groups, consolidation and networking.

This negative trend has been confirmed by a number of studies in various regions.

The feminization of poverty in Haiti is a worrying trend that calls for both a good understanding of the status of women and well targeted measures.

1. Notes with concern the continuous trend of hiring staff retirees for extended periods of time

Please indicate the reasons for this trend and what is being done to remedy the situation.

China faces a similar demographic trend, and also a push to unleash household consumption in order to sustain GDP growth. As in Japan, the downward trend in China s saving rate will show up in its current account.

The statements in question mark that trend.