The objective of threatening a fiscal cliff was to force a cooperative outcome on an increasingly non cooperative game.

Good governance is increasingly taking root.

But this neglects global inflation driven by rising commodity prices, which has been increasingly evident.

As technology advances, it has become more and more difficult to escape it.

Bosnia s future is becoming increasingly uncertain.

This insular program of national revival increasingly estranged her from continental Europe s more dirigiste approach.

Addiction to e mail is increasingly being recognized as a malady.

So what is to be done about the grey zone to Europe s east the six countries that now lie between the EU and Russia? Inaction is unacceptable.

Yet, two decades on, the global spread of democracy has been encountering increasingly strong headwinds.

Green buildings increasingly show higher capital values.

The negotiations have taken on an increasingly unreal air.

By contrast, the 70 80 scenario seems increasingly likely.

Rich people increasingly populate the most expensive cities.

For all, a perilous existential moment is increasingly close at hand.

The world was getting steadily richer, but the income distribution within countries was becoming steadily more unequal.

As a result, China s financial system is becoming increasingly fragile.

Increasingly, however, the problem is with Eastern Europe s states themselves.

Many young men in Gaza have become increasingly radicalized.

And, increasingly, the reasoning behind such forecasts seems persuasive.

The prospects of a stable future look increasingly dim.

Another is increasingly integrated with the US and Canada.

The challenges facing Kim are piling up.

Church administration has become increasingly subject to uniform civil codes.

And, more and more, technological progress depends on this social willingness.

As we gain experience and expertise we are mounting increasingly ambitious operations.

But that halcyon scenario looks increasingly improbable.

As a result, they are increasingly vulnerable to poor health.

Nuclear techniques are also increasingly being used in environmental applications.

Increasingly, conflict and violence take place beyond the boundaries of conventional war.

The basic family unit is the extended family, although there has been a growing trend towards nuclear families for socio economic reasons.

The same is true for ground water. Land is also increasingly scarce.

Increasingly, but not entirely, they are based on a digital processor (or computer).

From the 1980 s through the mid 2000 s, employment has increasingly lagged GDP in economic recoveries.

Now the public is increasingly disenchanted with the DPJ, which it expected to jump start Japanese politics. But instead of that happening, the country faces the grotesque revival of a domestic variant of the Cold War structure.

Ever since the Gramm Leach Bliley Act of 1999 repealed Glass Steagall, bankers have acted increasingly like feudal lords.

In the development of Imperial rule from Principate to Dominate, the role of the Senate was increasingly marginalised and military loyalty became the key to Imperial authority.

In particular, there is rising concern that Guinea Bissau is increasingly being used as a transit point for drug trafficking between South America and Europe, as evidenced by the growing number of narcotics seizures.

Narratives increasingly conflict and in an astonishingly open and unsettling way.

Its politics grew fractious, its policies erratic, and its finances increasingly unstable.

Growing worker insecurity is seen as the basis for a healthy economy.

The elections have also been increasingly free of violence.

It became increasingly difficult both to afford and actually buy food.

But it is increasingly clear that the eurozone needs a major overhaul if it is to survive.

Something more complicated, and unwieldy, appears increasingly likely.

And, as goes China, so will go the rest of an increasingly integrated Asia.