Today we are witnessing a critical trend the number of young drug addicts is increasing rapidly.

There is also an increasing trend on the part of the Government to enlist NGOs in programme implementation.

There is an increasing commitment to water policy reform and a strong trend towards decentralization of water institutions.

While foreign direct investment flows kept increasing, the trend could not be guaranteed.

The blogger admits that men too are to blame in the increasing trend of divorce.

The increasing role of the private sector forms an important trend in the ADF's logistics arrangements.

One trend that we notice in all those things is that the amount of energy per gram per second that flows through this, is actually increasing.

A major hindrance to scientific progress is the increasing scarcity of research funding a trend that has been exacerbated by the global economic crisis.

The clear trend is one of concentration of income and wealth at the top, the hollowing out of the middle, and increasing poverty at the bottom.

Can greater transparency the new political mantra of civic activists and an increasing number of democratic governments reverse this trend?

This positive trend is likely to persist, given that it is based on structural geographic and demographic factors, such as rising exports, improved trade conditions, and steadily increasing domestic consumption.

The increasing trend towards respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms continues, especially in the area of civil and political rights.

The rising power of Hamas, which openly proclaims its strategy of increasing terrorism and its goal of destroying Israel, reinforces that trend.

Although some countries have resisted the trend, inequality has been increasing over the last 30 40 years in the world as a whole.

Another study showed a lower incidence of 9.8 per 100,000 but a similar worsening trend (increasing from 4.9 in 1963 74) over time.

There is clearly a trend.

This is a welcome trend.

Noting with deep concern the increasing trend in recent years of statements attacking religions, Islam and Muslims in particular, especially in human rights forums,

Measures mandated by the central government to control surging real estate prices will continue to reinforce this trend, increasing pressure on local government revenues.

Noting with deep concern the increasing trend in recent years of statements attacking religions, Islam and Muslims in particular, especially in human rights forums,

Noting with deep concern the increasing trend in recent years of statements attacking religions, Islam and Muslims in particular, especially in human rights forums,

With an increasing number of arms embargo violations, the trend has continued to rely less on air transport to ferry the illegal arms shipments.

In order to attain that aim, Japan is firmly committed to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and welcomes the recent trend of increasing official development assistance (ODA) on a global scale.

An emerging trend, which UNITAR is supporting through cooperation offers, is the diminishing separation among civilian, military and civilian police training activities in peacekeeping operations, evident in the increasing number of integrated mission training centres.

Nevertheless, the increased trend toward the use of hydrocarbons, ammonia, carbon dioxide and low global warming potential fluorocarbons had been noted in various applications, as had been the increasing trend to use secondary loop systems to reduce refrigerant charge and emissions.

But the trend towards increasing sophistication and breadth of our financial markets suggests that we can expect to see much further growth in cat bonds.

This becomes all the more crucial with the increasing trend towards new and emerging funding mechanisms such as direct budget support and sector wide approaches.

The current trend is toward decentralization.

This trend is not hard to understand.

Recent figures show an increasing trend towards relaxing entry conditions for foreign workers in OECD countries, mainly to bridge the skill shortages found in most of them.

This is a trend rather than a rule.

That is an upward and quite discomforting trend.

Countries report a positive trend towards increasing stakeholder participation, stimulated both by the emphasis in the IPF IFF proposals and by more general national policies that promote such participation.

The total value of outstanding cat bonds is small by Katrina standards. But the trend towards increasing sophistication and breadth of our financial markets suggests that we can expect to see much further growth in cat bonds.

This trend is the same among adult women (22 ).

Unfortunately, the current trend is towards underrepresentation for Asia.

This trend is also visible at the middle level.

This may be in contradiction with the increasing trend in workload and may hamper the capacity of the section to fulfil its mandate and achieve timely objectives established by the organization.

The most recent trend indicates increasing use of technical measures (classified under chapter 8 above), as well as quantitative measures associated with technical measures, and decreasing use of all other measures.

The reporting data shows an increasing trend in the proportion of organizations that reported taking action in relation to each of the seven legislated employment matters has steadily increased each year.

Though this environment may not be fundamentally at risk, the current trend towards increasing capital requirements for international banks reflected, for example, in calls for the establishment of independent subsidiaries with autonomous capital and liquidity pools is clearly worrisome.

But what about trend following investors, or those with market power? In fact, in the short term, an investor might be attracted by the increasing price of a commodity, although the price is not based on any fundamental data.

Like the financial crisis itself, this trend is now global.

Fortunately, a counter trend in Copenhagen is also worth noting.

There is an abundance of explanations for the downward trend.