Unfortunately, the current trend is towards underrepresentation for Asia.

The good news is that household debt is coming down through a combination of repayments and write offs.

The new legislation seems to have really helped decrease the number of workers on lay off, as a decreasing trend was intensified over the last two years (for example, a 20 per cent decrease was realized by June 2001).

However the trend appears to be towards greater levels of disclosure in this area, especially in Europe France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom have all introduced laws to enforce the disclosure of directors' individual remuneration.

I understand why the pendulum has swung so heavily the other way.

All interventions it carries out are oriented towards this direction.

I believe that it is in this sense.

In addition, export expectations for German manufacturing are heading south.

President George W. Bush projects this style very openly.

The population in BiH is faced with significant health problems and trends that result in health problems (use of tobacco, alcohol, drugs), antisocial behaviors and violence, depression, suicides, and other wide spectrum of different physical and mental disturbances.

One explanation for the recent population decrease is the Croatian War of Independence.

There were some ups and downs along the way, but the overall trend has been downward, and the magnitude of the decline nearly five percentage points is striking.

As the stock market dives, they receive margin calls and are being forced to sell their shares at ever lower prices, causing the stock market s downward spiral to accelerate.

This 600 billion fall in demand is more than 3 of GDP. If not reversed, it will cause further cuts in production, employment, and earnings, leading to further reductions in consumer spending.

One motivating factor behind the changes in the legislation combining discipline acts across the armed forces is the trend towards tri service operations and defence organisations.

Therefore, we must persist in striving more diligently to identify what unites us, because the trend towards cultural fragmentation in a globalized world is the great challenge facing our institution.

And the focus this year has shifted decisively away from it.

In the decade or so leading up to the meltdown of 2007 2008, the global trend was toward regulatory integration.

The development of perspective was part of a wider trend towards realism in the arts.

The mood for magazines had declined in favor of albums in the late 1960s.

However, this decrease owes more to a rise in the world s population than it does to the slight reduction in the actual number of hungry people (from about 980 million to 852 million today).

The biggest number of accidents happened in 1996, and since then the tendency has been to decrease.

1. Notes with concern the continuous trend of hiring staff retirees for extended periods of time

That slack labor market is powering this swing of the protectionist pendulum.

The trend from the 13th century onward was toward a more legalistic interpretation of fasting.

Ambassador Denisov also raised the issue of the growing trend of the late submission of country reports.

The convergence of magnetic field lines towards the Earth that creates a magnetic mirror turns back many of the downward flowing electrons as the field strength increases.

It is surprising that America s stock market hasn t crashed yet, since all other indicators are pointing downward.

I have no doubt that closer American re engagement helped to nudge Pakistan in the right direction.

Perhaps this underlies the significant drop in deaths inflicted by war since 1945 a decline that has become even steeper over the past 20 years.

One thing is clear this trend is growing and it grows at an alarming pace.

The growing phenomenon of Islamophobia is the best example of that trend.

On the other hand, these economies can opt for greater self insurance.

India and China, each in its own way, is already moving in this direction.

She expressed concern about the trend towards bilateralism and about the low level of assistance directed to her region.

The trend towards increased containerization of trade continued in the course of 2004 and 2005.

But the broad trend toward larger income shares at the top is global, and the difficulties that it may create for macroeconomic policy should no longer be ignored.

In other words, will the elevated asset values caused by low discount rates suddenly reset downward at some point? No one knows.

The problem abides, and the most conspicuous theme in the present report is the continuing trend of escalating potential violence in a pattern of protection of entrenched vested interests.

But it would be more accurate to say that there is global investment shortfall, with investment trending downwards despite the upward trend in global growth.

Yet this is the direction in which Chancellor Merkel seems to be heading.

The key trend in the global development of organized crime over the last decade has been diversification.

Likewise, increasing the interest rates paid on bank deposits would enable savings to decline without loss of income.

That is why, after more than two years, interest rates are rising, not falling, in countries crushed by onerous austerity measures.

In the middle of 2009, the annual drop of the GDP for 2009 was estimated around 3 or 4.3 , a relatively modest decrease.