Sentences with phrase «as a trend toward»

As that trend toward bottled water continues, Primo Water has grown and stands to grow a lot more.

As a trend toward personalized medicine means that more people can have portions or the entirety of their genome sequenced, these results have implications for genetic counseling for infertility.

The Fusion approach builds on what education experts see as a trend toward highly personalized education, often aided by new technology, that is increasingly taking root in public schools or other traditional classrooms.

As the trend toward looking at pets as part of the family continues to grow, how do you expect this will shape the way brands will go to market?

«Results from this study showed dogs who wore the ThunderShirt to manufacturer's specifications had lowered heart rate, decreased visual orientation towards the door (looking for their owner), as well as trending toward reduced yawning and tongue - flicking stress behaviors.»

Medical space remained the demand leader as the trend toward Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) materialized in legitimate market demand.

That's leading to fundamental changes in the housing market itself — such as a trend toward smaller down payments.

Not exact matches

Some of these trends have deeper roots, however, such as the still - increasing tendency to move toward the cloud.

For many, it feels as if this trend is just the latest in a corporate push toward cost reduction and a dehumanized work place.

Research firm Equilar says boards of tech firms are diversifying, but slowly, as part of a trend toward more equal representation.

But Penalosa believes that trend could be shifting toward Lulu - style casualwear as well.

The trend toward the cloud has been gaining acceptance for some time, as startup Box, founded by Inc.'s Entrepreneur of the Year Aaron Levie, can attest.

The cost - cutting comes as Big Food manufacturers have found their legacy brands pressuring by a consumer trend toward foods and drinks they deem healthier, a trend executives say will only accelerate over time.

As a result of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012, the trend in online lending has shifted toward investment crowdfunding opportunities.

EDM as a popular trend has subsided from its early - 2000s peak, and while electronic will never go away, the pop charts have drifted toward more traditional, less garish genres in the past few years.

«Global growth is still seen as on track to recover gradually toward its underlying trend of 3-1/2 % over the year ahead,» Deutsche Bank said in a note.

There is also a huge trend toward healthcare delivery and the utilization of labor forces, such as mobilizing healthcare and creating more communication for patients and doctors.

Today, it is chasing trends — toward healthier foods, trying to compete against Starbucks with coffee, reducing menu complexity and more — and looks far less assured as a result.

«We were a little slow to recognize the trend toward mobility,» he said, but added that the company is starting to see some traction and gain market share in large growth markets in areas such as tablets.

Chinese dairy production and consumption has soared in the past three decades, averaging a 12.8 % annual growth rate since 2000 as a result of changing diet trends that are shifting more toward Western foods, according to a report by the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy.

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.

Thus, there should be little doubt that regulatory burden contributes to the trend toward consolidation as smaller banks work to control costs and to survive within a highly regulated industry.

The trend toward tech - centric, mobile banks has already started in Europe, where relaxed regulations have led to so - called «challenger» banks such as N26 in Germany, Monzo in Italy and Revolut in the UK, says Britt.

Notable detractors included short corn and wheat positions as these commodities reversed trends, trading higher toward month - end.

The trend away from energy scarcity and toward energy abundance creates big losers as well as winners and is only a net positive for global demand if the winners» boost in consumption offsets the losers» cut in consumption and capital spending.

Demographic trends and the shift of global economic gravity toward emerging markets pose serious challenges to North American competitiveness; our future standard of living will depend in part on continuous education as well as our ability to recruit and retain talent.

Consumers see gluten - free products as part of the larger and stronger trend toward healthier eating.

On the other hand, as price rises RSI typically trends toward 100 %.

As the economy or the Fed reverses the adverse inflation - rate trend back toward price stability, P / E will trough at its lows and begin the long climb that drives secular bull markets.

Demographic trends have shifted dramatically in the U.S. over the past half century toward an older population, and hence potential growth has to be structurally lower today, even as we hire great numbers of people (to say nothing of deploying ever greater numbers of robots).

As a result, absolute economic prospects may not improve much, but we would actually expect a strong trend toward positive surprises from the standpoint of now - lowered expectations.

Although some people are genuinely hungry for ideas and find encouragement in sharply drawn postings, I sometimes think of the general trend of punditry toward denunciation and harsh judgments as what I call political pornography — an excitement of the will, a stimulation of commitment, a thrilling feeling of entering the fray.

The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

Perhaps today's «beer Christianity» is not so much a new trend as it is a return to the posture toward alcohol that characterized much of Christian history?

Birch shares with me both the Christian faith and the influence of Whitehead's philosophy, as well as keen concern about the global disaster toward which the still - dominant trends are leading us.

In the Protestant world, the trend toward tolerance of alcohol reaches beyond churches into conservative college campuses as well.

The trend toward realism notwithstanding, the police haven't yet driven out the freelance genius, the inspired layman or laywoman, as solvers of mysteries and restorers of justice.

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.

Buber's and Trüb's understanding of guilt as a primal reality sets them in marked contrast to the predominant modern trend toward explaining it away as the product of social and psychological conditioning.

The corporate trend toward articulating mission, corporate values and ethics statements, as well as attending to corporate culture and external constituencies, points to areas laden with notions of purpose, value, obligation and community - notions inherent in faith communities.

Ecumenism may be weak as an attempt to unite all Christians organizationally, but the trend toward interchurch cooperation on matters of education is strong.

Some would argue that current trends toward «sustainable development» are becoming so prominent and pervasive within both government and corporate practices as to suggest that the global market economy, at least in democratic, industrialized countries, itself could be in the midst of a pervasive paradigm shift.

The trend poses a grave threat to American democracy: as Sarat quotes from Thurgood Marshall in his dissenting opinion in Payne, this return of revenge signals «one major step toward the demise of a conception of law as a «source of impersonal and reasoned judgments.»»

Although the larger size groups in the organic dairy sector had higher economic returns, a trend toward concentration of production was not as evident.

«This growth,» said an article titled 1999 Restaurant Industry Forecast: Food Trends, «reflects a trend toward the use of spices in Asian (lemongrass is particularly big), Mexican, South American and Mediterranean cooking as well as the use of more and different flavors to compensate for less salt and fat in foods.»

Part of the big picture is paying attention to global trends in the food industry, such as the movement toward more natural foods.

As the Indian population grew, the number of restaurants increased, which coincided with the trend toward dining out.

Ciotti says consumer trends toward eating in as well as Vanns» increased production capabilities have poised the company to gain market share in this segment.

And Target also recently announced its plan to move toward cage - free eggs, a trend that's growing as consumers continue to demand more ethically - sourced animal products.

In fact, Sands argued that more affordable larger pack sizes from some craft brewers as well as increased competition from more than 6,300 beer companies, and the continued trend toward hyper localization, wouldn't affect Constellation's pricing strategy.