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

The EU, the largest importer, witnessed a rising trend (from 72.8 Mt. in 1996 to 104.5 Mt. in 2004).

Furthermore, the Committee is concerned at the rising trend of tobacco use, alcohol and drug abuse and suicide among adolescents.

Some countries have bucked the global trend. Indonesia, for example, has experienced accelerating growth, with rising business and consumer confidence boosting investment to almost 33 of GDP.

Deeply concerned about the rising trend in and magnitude of illicit production of opiates in Afghanistan and the trafficking of those opiates to Europe and other parts of the world,

Two hundred years of breathtaking innovation since the dawn of the industrial age have produced rising living standards for ordinary people in much of the world, with no sharply rising trend for unemployment. Yes, there have been many problems, notably bouts of staggering inequality and increasingly horrific wars.

China s outward FDI is poised to increase sharply again in 2010, judging by the first half of the year, when it was rising at an annual rate of 44 . Revaluation would accelerate this trend.

This trend will have many consequences, most obviously for the welfare state, notably pensions and healthcare. While expenditure for both is rising rapidly, the offsetting revenues are coming from ever fewer people in employment.

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

As surveyed in the United Nations report The Inequality Predicament, few countries, rich or poor, have proved immune to the global trend of rising inequality, or to its consequences for education, health, and social welfare.

Yet, given the chaos and paralysis that increasingly characterize Palestinian politics, that opportunity will go untaken. The rising power of Hamas, which openly proclaims its strategy of increasing terrorism and its goal of destroying Israel, reinforces that trend.

However, primary products were a declining component of developing country trade in the 1990s, continuing a trend begun in the 1980s, and the concomitant rising share of manufactures has included medium and high skill and technology intensive products.

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Meanwhile, as developing economies become richer, they, too, will invest in technology in order to cope with rising labor costs (a trend already evident in China). As a result, the high water mark for global productivity and GDP growth may have been reached.

But, despite large scale fiscal and monetary stimulus, they are not experiencing any dramatic economic rebound. Moreover, the pre crisis trend of rising income and wealth inequality is continuing (in marked contrast to the post Great Depression period, in which inequality declined).

These examples indicate a trend.

There is a trend here.

We have a decent trend.

That trend must be reversed.

That trend should be encouraged.

This is a welcome trend.

This is a positive trend.

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Hamas Rising

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But this trend is less unambiguous.

So where does this trend stop?

The current trend is toward decentralization.

Crime statistics show a positive trend.

This trend seems to have continued.

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The rising dawn,

The rising dawn,

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

But you see a very clear trend.

The statements in question mark that trend.

They're rising in popularity.

That number is rising.

This year could prove to be a major El Niño year, when the waters of the Eastern Pacific warm and create global climate disruptions. A big El Niño now would be even more dangerous than usual, because it would add to the overall rising trend in global temperatures.

As it stands, private consumption accounts for an unusually small share of China s GDP. But rising wages partly the result of mandated minimum wage increases in some regions are boosting household incomes, and there is already some evidence that the downward trend in consumption s share of GDP has reversed.

Prices were (mostly) stabilized, but with a slow, if continuous, rising trend. The market for these financial products grew over 30 years to the point that they delivered huge opportunities for immediate gain, which provided a strong incentive for market participants to play with them more and more.

He hoped that that trend would be sustained.

But we can halt and reverse that trend.

This trend was clearly reflected in funding patterns.