Sentences with phrase «accelerate the trend of»

Last year's devastating wildfire season may accelerate the trend of private insurers not renewing policies in fire - hazard areas.

He says increased price sensitivity among consumers, an accelerated trend of member downgrading their policies, and heightened competitive activity will maintain pressure on the company.

Improving East / West relations will accelerate the trend of redirecting resources from the «defense of Europe» into new LIC strategies of Third World intervention.

The spate of well - paid additions accelerates a trend of staffers working on the Capitol's second floor but drawing their salaries from various state agencies and public authorities.

«The overall impact of changes to the SALT deduction will accelerate the trend of hardworking individuals and businesses already leaving our state — further eroding New York's tax base.»

accelerated the trend of increasing state involvement and paved the way for many more charter schools.

Just as the charter school plan continued the pre-Katrina trend of decreasing board control of New Orleans public schools, the post-hurricane changes accelerated the trend of increasing state involvement and paved the way for many more charter schools.

Indeed, the AR5 report will help to accelerate the trend of insurance companies looking to encourage risk reduction to climate change through the hardening of key infrastructure and other vulnerable capital assets.

WASHINGTON — Two of the world's leading oil producers have almost overnight joined some of the biggest players in wind power in the United States, accelerating a trend of large corporations investing in the rapidly growing alternative - energy field.

Canada, with Germany and Switzerland, suggested adding a reference to the accelerating trend of warming.

There's also an accelerating trend of glacial retreat on the continent.

Will they accelerate the trend of removing databases from the annual flat - fee subscription package, moving them to a pay - as - you - go access model?

Possibly it will accelerate the trend of decreasing life spans even more.

For many Chinese investors, the lack of appealing domestic alternatives will accelerate the trend of seeking out the relative safety of U.S. real estate assets.

Not exact matches

Sure, there are many other factors affecting this trend besides on - line merchandising — most notably real estate firms which have accelerated neighborhood declines by escalating rents — but those factors combined have decimated downtown and suburban shopping areas and have had a major impact on our way of life.

And 2.9 gigawatts of new renewable energy projects were initiated last year, while 12.5 gigawatts worth of coal plants are set to shut down in 2018 — also part of an accelerating trend.

«It's the fact that we're riding a few of the major trends happening with respect to teens on the Internet these days that has accelerated our growth,» says Edelin.

The problem, he said, is «you've got a portion of Congress whose policies... just want to, you know, leave things alone, they actually want to accelerate these trends.»

Since 2000, wages have been stagnant or in decline for a majority of workers, a trend now accelerated since 2007.

«Technology is expanding incredibly rapidly in every pocket of the world, and the trends are accelerating.»

But the trend of digital ordering will only accelerate, forcing big players like McDonald's (mcd) to think about what mobile ordering should look like as this trend becomes more pervasive.

«With the changing demographics and mobile habits of millennials coming to the forefront, these trends will continue to accelerate and gain importance.»

That January reading has been revised down to 2.8 %, and earnings climbed just 0.1 % on the month in February for a yearly gain of 2.6 % — so the trend is moderating, not accelerating.

And that is a trend that keeps snowballing, thanks primarily to the activities of two groups: first, the pension funds, insurers, and other large investors that continue to accelerate their investments in growth companies; and second, the investment - world professionals, who are responding to the deluge of money by continually setting up new funds.

And with the advent of the latest generation of GPS - enabled smartphones, that trend has only accelerated in the past few years, enabling employee tracking outside of work hours, too.

The shock of the downturn and anger about the abuses that drove it promise to accelerate preexisting trends toward reduced materialism, commitment to sustainability, higher expectations of corporate social responsibility, and resentment of cynical marketing that treats people as soulless and mechanical consumers.

This trend is going to accelerate with token sales, as folks who are even more predisposed to the pure computer science end of the spectrum end up founding valuable protocols.

More self - made women are emerging with their own resources for giving, which reflects the rising economic fortunes of women — a trend likely to accelerate in coming years.

Over the last decade, the hottest trend for fast - growth sales organizations is the birth and dominant role of sales development teams to accelerate lead generation and the creation of qualified opportunities.

At the onset of the Asian crisis, the Australian economy was growing at around trend rates, with domestic demand beginning to accelerate, and underlying inflation at 1.6 per cent.

These trends have accelerated in the current decade and are fueling burgeoning interest in new paradigms in venture capital that better align the interests of investors and fund managers and that provide the potential for outsized investment returns for which the asset class is known.

«The consolidation of [Amazon and Whole Foods] is likely to accelerate the trend we have already seen among Millennial consumers who have rejected traditional Big Food brands in favor of more authentic, trendy offerings,» Credit Suisse analyst Robert Moskow wrote in a note to clients.

Population is growing faster in the South and West than in the Northeast and Midwest, and faster in suburban areas than in urban counties; both of these trends accelerated in 2015.

Some critics say Denver's booming economy is leaving behind the city's most vulnerable residents, a trend they predict would accelerate if the city was chosen as the site of a new Amazon headquarters.

The disappearance of midwage, midskill jobs is part of a longer - term trend that some refer to as a hollowing out of the work force, though it has probably been accelerated by government layoffs.

Those expectations are based on analysis of historical precedence, including the average market gains in the third year of the presidential election cycle, strong momentum, earnings growth, seasonal trends, accelerating economic growth, and the normal market performance around the first Fed rate hike.

If you follow global financial trends, you would have noted the continual (and recently accelerating) decline in the slope of the US yield curve.

And as we have moved through 2009 the downward trend in gas prices has continued accelerating in recent weeks to leave prices hovering around the $ 2.60 mark at today's close — that's a massive 80 % fall in the price of natural gas since July 2008 and it's lowest price in since March 2002!

SAN MATEO, Calif. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Exabeam, the leader in user behavior analytics (UBA) for security, today announced the closing of a $ 25 million financing round to further accelerate the company's rapid growth and continue updating its UBA solution in response to customer demand and industry trends.

«The trend of companies shifting to Vietnam from China will likely accelerate for at least two to three years, largely because of China's higher labor costs,» said Lee Jung Soon, who leads a business - incubation team of the Korea Trade - Investment Promotion Agency in Ho Chi Minh City.

Executives said they were thrilled to see an «accelerating trend across all parts of our business» over the holidays, so investors have every reason to expect good news on this score.

Several factors, including policy changes and peak - globalization trends, could potentially cause inflation to accelerate faster than many investors» subdued expectations based on recent decades of disinflation.

This trend has only accelerated as a result of the growing sensitivity to historical context and cultural diversity.

Beginning with the 1990s, South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East has seen steadily rising number of attacks, a trend that has accelerated in recent years.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

The concrete policies of particular administrations can no doubt slow or accelerate this massive historical trend marking the end of an era of Western dominance; no one American administration, however, has created that trend, nor probably can any fundamentally alter its course.

The accelerating trend toward female - male equality opens up all sorts of new possibilities for both conflict and intimacy.

«It's obvious that people are searching for a spiritual experience outside of traditional church gatherings and in an on - demand world this trend will accelerate.

The War of 1914 - 1918 and its aftermath greatly accelerated this trend.

When trends are accepted and accelerated, the focus will be on securing supplier capacity in the face of heightened competition.