Sentences with phrase «declining giving patterns»

Church leaders tell me they're also concerned about declining giving patterns.

Not exact matches

Dias said the contract offered Ford workers gains «over and above» the pattern set at GM, but declined to give details.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

Given this housing pattern and the declining share of elementary and secondary school students who are white, African American students are likely to have fewer white and more Hispanic and Asian classmates in the years to come.

We also investigated whether college enrollment patterns shifted over time, given the network's rapid expansion while the students in our sample were enrolled, and found no evidence that Noble's effectiveness declined appreciably over this period.

The first inside bar in the video above was a stall - pattern that gave rise to about a 300 pip rise, the next inside bar gave fall to a large 2 - 300 pip decline, the next inside bar in this video that had not come off yet at the time of recording was also acting as a possible stall out that could give rise to either a false break, or a simple break up or down.

Current GCM models may have realistic - seeming weather patterns, but are totally incapable of producing phenomena that look like the Holocene (Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Roman Warm Period, Holocene Optimum, the steady decline of temperature on average over the last 3,000 years, etc.) The Climate Science community has, instead, taken the path of trying to claim that these swings didn't occur (Michael Mann's «Hockey Stick», etc.) This does not give me a lot of confidence in the rest of their «science».

Given these patterns in wintertime, how is it that the overall (all 12 months) pattern seems to be decline?