This trend is not hard to understand.

The financial crisis may slow this trend.

Bolivia, however, may be poised to buck the latter trend.

Revaluation would accelerate this trend.

President Putin's keen political antenna has caught this trend.

The pharmaceutical industry has been eyeing this trend for a while.

The war in Gaza will harden this negative trend.

They will either reject this trend, or succumb to it.

But with the government's new legislation, this may change.

This was the objective set by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which requested that the publication of multinational oil companies' payments to governments be made mandatory.

Only openness and accountability can reverse this trend.

His last foreign intelligence chief, Abu Zayd Dorda, epitomizes this trend.

All across the globe, you have this tendency of men wanting a certificate.

In normal times, citizens and officials alike would welcome this trend.

The call for more referenda both reflects and fuels this trend.

Only further unification, underpinned by growth oriented policies in the struggling countries, can reverse this trend.

But that merely fuels inflation expectations and makes the task more painful.

But with the EU already crumbling, Brexit could turn that dynamic on its head.

The London games confirmed this trend.

He tends to be arrogant.

That, together with the Kingdom s deepening distrust of the US, is fueling a growing sense of isolation.

Should we welcome this trend?

The world's population tends to increase.

Kennan recognized this tendency decades ago, when he warned that shortsighted policies at home and abroad had already put America in a vulnerable position.

The rising power of Hamas, which openly proclaims its strategy of increasing terrorism and its goal of destroying Israel, reinforces that trend.

But, counterbalancing this trend, people now have the means and opportunities to ensure that companies behavior does not go unchecked.

That is why development tends to be unequal.

When they are high, they are apt to crowd out investments in manufactures and other, non traditional tradables.

The drivers apparently have reputation for tacking on surcharges

If one were to extrapolate this trend, ten year interest rates would move into negative territory in a few years or so for most of them.

Investors discovery of commodities as an asset class is fueling both speculative and long term demand.

Obama sent Vice President Joe Biden to Mexico and Central America a few weeks ago to forestall this trend, and he may have partly succeeded. Nevertheless, whereas only a smattering of political leaders and intellectuals advocated legalization in the past, nowadays officials are coming out of the closet on drugs in droves.

To reverse the trend, French republicanism must, like English multiculturalism, contradict itself in order to fulfil itself.

Obama sent Vice President Joe Biden to Mexico and Central America a few weeks ago to forestall this trend, and he may have partly succeeded.

Other regional comparisons further reinforce that trend.

To stem this trend, the emerging economies of North Africa, as well as those of Eastern Europe, need to develop homegrown human capital by raising their populations' skill levels.

Encouraged by reductions in poverty in some countries in the recent past, and determined to reinforce and extend this trend to benefit people worldwide,

Encouraged by reductions in poverty in some countries in the recent past, and determined to reinforce and extend this trend to benefit people worldwide,

Fear feeds on itself, and the prediction that stocks will lose value becomes self fulfilling.

These weapons fuel, intensify and prolong conflicts, frustrate peace initiatives and destabilize regimes emerging from conflict.

First, these women tend to be awash in debt.

Statistical categories often tend to become social categories.

At the same time, inflation has continued trending down.

Finance enthusiasts tend to view every crisis as a learning opportunity.

Prejudice has tended to fall as participation increases.