Sentences with phrase «more widespread trend»

Silverglate sees what happened at Harvard as symptomatic of a far more widespread trend to muzzle politically incorrect speech.

But I bring it up because I see the broken promise to the player as an example (admittedly extreme) of a slightly more widespread trend in game narrative development.

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That trend shows no sign of changing as automation becomes more widespread — and many predict the number of jobs will shrink by a large number.

Some companies now pay for employees to bring children and caregivers on business trips, a trend that some expect to become more widespread.

«We encourage you to investigate whether these and other predatory practices are more widespread than previously reported, whether there is a growing trend of property owners using our judicial system to intimidate or extract money or other concessions from tenants, and whether these practices are out of line with the norms and standards of our justice system and tenants» right to due process.»

An analysis by Jesse Ausubel and Paul Waggoner of Rockefeller University in New York City suggests that this trend of more economic bang per resource buck is widespread among developing economies, following an initial «cheap and dirty» phase of growth.

Looking beyond the 2030 timescale of the SDGs, scenario analysis highlights that continuation of past and current trends in drivers of change will inhibit the contribution of the region to the widespread achievement of the SDGs, while scenarios which focus on achieving a balanced supply of nature's contributions to people and incorporate a diversity of values are more likely to contribute to achieving the majority of the SDGs.

Causes of warming trends at higher latitudes have gained more widespread attention from researchers in the past few decades, but the idea that the Arctic would warm faster than the rest of the planet has been around for more than 100 years.

Wildfires are becoming more common and widespread as temperatures rise and large parts of the U.S. become drier — a trend likely to worsen thanks to manmade climate change.

Add dating to the picture, and the trend appears even more widespread.

This could mean, for instance, pupils pushing individuals out of Whatsapp groups or removing them from group chats on other platforms; this trend is much more subtle than the overt name calling we usually associate with online safety, but while the former is still happening, the latter is becoming more widespread.

We have seen fast, widespread growth and we expect the trend to continue as tablets and smartphones become more ubiquitous not only in the U.S. but also around the world.»

The mass appeal of alternative energy and cryptocurrency are examples of trend investing that can lead investors astray Trend investing can often be reduced to widespread false narratives — like the sure profits in South Sea shares, or the huge risk of a post-Y2K depression, or the certainty... Read More

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

The widespread trend of increasing heavy downpours is expected to continue, with precipitation becoming less frequent but more intense.13, 14,15,16 The patterns of the projected changes of precipitation do not contain the spatial details that characterize observed precipitation, especially in mountainous terrain, because the projections are averages from multiple models and because the effective resolution of global climate models is roughly 100 - 200 miles.

Leadership in this trend is becoming more geographically widespread, with India, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Australia, Canada and the UAE joining the more traditional global frontrunners of China, America, Germany, Denmark and the U.K.

Although the 1970s «back - to - the - land» movement (which coincided with historic energy crises) largely fizzled, perhaps due to cheap oil flowing from the North Sea and Alaska during the 1980s and 1990s, we may be on the cusp of similar, more widespread, and possibly more desperate trends today.

Law firms now care (at least a bit) about technology: Whether the result of client pressure (more on that below), shifting priorities among senior firm leadership, or as a lagging indicator of a general trend among professions, law firms are now open to conversations about the widespread adoption of new technology.

There's still widespread fear in the home buying industry, which puts more emphasis on the rental trend as a whole.