Sentences with phrase «term trend toward»

Over all, the analysts as a group see no deviation from the long - term trend toward thinning and dwindling summer sea ice given how the Arctic tends to amplify the long - term global warming trend.

He said there is no reason to doubt that a long - term trend toward more concentrated food production will eventually lead to manufactured meat.

Temporary reversals should probably not obscure the long - term trend toward liberalization.

However, these hypotheses, which emphasise long - term trends toward either a drier or more variable climate, do not explain the pulsed nature of hominin speciation and migration events.

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«Part of our Sector Weight thesis longer term has been the view that at some point, investors might start to care that a significant portion... of the company's gross profit pool was no longer growing, and so while investors largely care about Model 3 for the moment, that S / X continue to point toward these trends makes multiple expansion arguments more challenging,» analysts Elliot Arnson and Brad Erickson said in a Wednesday note.

The relative stability in the trend in 2014 and 2015 represents a housing market settling back toward long term sustainable trend growth rates.

Over the medium term, based on the Congressional Budget Office's estimates of potential growth, long - term yields should trend toward a 5 % level.

The case is also instructive in continuing the trend toward broader application of the term fiduciary with regard to retirement plans, especially small business 401k plans with typically higher and often hidden fees.

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.

Two beef producers spoken to by AFR Weekend are worried about the trend toward live exports, doubting the long term viability of the trade.

«The long - term trend of premiumization has contributed to the market share shift away from beer and toward spirts in particular,» Robinson explains.

In terms of education, while in the past a baccalaureate degree was not required to become a CNM, the trend is toward requiring this degree, and moving toward requiring a Masters Degree.

«This database lays a path toward greater understanding of the problem areas and trends of domestic violence across Suffolk County and can further serve as a catalyst to create solutions that will substantially reduce such violence over the long - term.»

The trend toward transformative research is fueled by nations» efforts to use science and technology to leapfrog competition in terms of innovation and economic development in a globalized environment, says Robert Frodeman, a philosophy professor at the University of North Texas, Denton, and director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity.

Although the seven - year data record is too short to make conclusions about long - term trends, it is an important step toward understanding how dust and other windborne particles, or aerosols, behave as they move across the ocean.

These are only small blips on the overall long - term trend of warming, which tips the odds toward record heat and away from record cold.

But remediation was an ugly and discouraging term, so a decade or two ago, it got relabeled «developmental,» and one of today's hottest trends is to replace «developmental» with «co-requisite» courses, whereby you can actually earn credit toward a degree by completing a course with passing norms that may (or may not) fall somewhere between what we used to mean by remedial and credit - worthy.

Bastian says the long - term nationwide trend has been toward consolidating districts instead of breaking them up.

In terms of experience, over the long term the teacher workforce is trending toward less experience.

With the trend moving toward the more the merrier in terms of game selection, multi-software platforms are all the rage but 32Red has managed to hold its strong position within the market with one mighty provider.

It's just that I don't see the independent publishing trend line moving toward «paper, too» over the short or long term with any kind of velocity.

«Even though this term still means different things to different people, the general trend is toward our pets» evolutionary diet, or as close as consumers can get to that and still fit their budget,» says Hatch - Rizzi.

The Guild Hall show coincides with the current trend toward minimalism as a life choice, that is, in the parlance of the latest trends in austerity, a term for stripping away of possessions, freeing one self of objects.

Even as the long - term trend in the Arctic is toward less sea ice in summers, for decades to come — and routinely in other seasons — any nation with interests in the far north will need to be able to navigate in heavy ice.

In a world where the long - term trend is toward higher oil prices, how does a government and society avoid the «shock and trance» response to short - term wiggles in energy costs?

Still, the scientists, at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., said that the extent of the ice in the Arctic this summer was 33 percent smaller than the average extent tracked since satellites started monitoring the region in 1979, and that the long - term trend is toward an ice - free summer in the Arctic Ocean within a few decades.

[Andy Revkin — On Arctic ice trends, I have a post coming shortly on the latest update from the world's leading teams of sea ice experts, showing this year's retreat is unlikely to match last year's, while the long - term trend is still heading toward ever less summer ice.

But even with that trend, «many scientists» still caution that sea ice could expand again periodically even as the system heads toward mainly open water in summers later this century under the building long - term influence of the greenhouse blanket.

Eight (8) respondents suggest a return toward the long - term trend line of summer sea ice loss (pre-2007 long - term trend of approximately 10 % loss per decade),

Five (5) respondents suggested a less dramatic loss than in 2007 (ie., 4.3 million square kilomoters)-- closer toward the long - term trend line of summer sea ice loss;

The range of values is 4.0 to 5.6 million square kilometers, but the distribution is skewed toward lower values, suggesting either persistent conditions or a substantial drop below 2008 and 2010 values and the long - term downward trend.

The distribution of the June Outlooks is skewed toward lower values, with a range of 4.0 to 5.6 million square kilometers, suggesting either persistent conditions or a substantial drop below 2008 and 2010 values and the long - term downward trend.

The retreat of Arctic ice might get a short reprieve in the next decade, a new study finds, but the long - term trend is still toward a complete summer melt.

The legitimate point they make is that while the long term trends are positive toward free speech, recent data suggests that the current generation (iGen) entering college may be reversing that trend.

Three (3) respondents suggest a return toward the long term trend line of summer sea ice loss.

Five (5) respondents suggest a return toward the long term trend line of summer sea ice loss, but less than the 1979 - 2000 mean extents;

The distinct lack of any warming has compromised greatly the ability of climate models to accurately predict short and long - term climate trends, and in my opinion goes a long way toward the «critical failure» that falsifies the very hypothesis and foundation of the anthropogenic global warming theory.

But when the cycle reverses, and deep ocean waters cycle back toward the surface, the warming increase will continue on as the long term observed trend has shown.

Due to the relative ease of creating access to electronic data bases, a long term trend has been under way toward making data more available to colleagues since long before these episodes; and in several respects, IPCC has progressively «opened up» over time.

Given current circumstances though, there is a risk that the trend toward a weak El Nino - like state may continue in the short - term at least, and this will be monitored closely.

The long term trend is actually expected to be toward cooling, being that we are in an interglacial period.

But just as one warm day in October does not negate a cooling trend toward winter, a slight annual gain in sea ice extent over a record low does not negate the long - term decline.

Further, for those legal head terms, we're seeing a trend toward local results.

In this video, corporate partner Eric Goodison analyzes the trend toward upfront negotiation of terms that were traditionally reserved for the definitive documentation stage.

«What we're seeing is even the application of contract law is trending toward greater room for implication of terms and trying to do justice by the parties regardless of what the strict terms of the agreement say.»

With the specter of climate change haunting the world more and more, it goes without saying that the globe in general will strongly trend toward more responsible energy practices in the mid - to long - term.

While technical analysis and momentum indicators point toward a weak short - term trend for bitcoin, fundamentals remain significantly strong.

Several factors, including environmentalism, spur the trend toward sustainability, the broad term used to indicate practices that conserve the Earth's resources.

The idea of bringing housekeeping into units represents part of a trend toward «hotelification of residential spaces,» says Chris Bledsoe, cofounder of Ollie (a play on the term «all - inclusive»), a company that manages a 207 - unit coliving building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and plans to open another in the borough's Kips Bay neighborhood soon.