But causality might also run in the opposite direction.

Development in Reverse

Europe in Reverse

Yet today the pendulum has arguably swung too far in the opposite direction.

Biomedicine in Reverse

This idea also works in the opposite way, i.e.

At that point, the recovery went into reverse.

Globalization was successful because it forced countries to remove regulations but the process does not work in reverse.

This situation is now close to being reversed.

Meanwhile, developing countries are moving in the opposite direction.

Alas, Russia is moving more in the opposite direction political power is becoming more, not less, concentrated.

This should favor the euro as a store of value, but the internal tensions within Europe work in the opposite direction.

Personally, I come at this from the opposite direction.

The laughter should have gone in the opposite direction.

But, looking forward, as these headwinds fade, faster growth and poverty alleviation are becoming easier to achieve.

Once the Great Recession began, this process operated in reverse, unwinding the excesses.

Academia, by contrast, appears to be moving in the opposite direction.

Yet the current situation is shifting expectations into reverse.

One hopes that the Iranian government s announcement to its own people reads roughly the same, in reverse, focusing on the important concessions that Iranian negotiators have won.

But, having learned to do that once would make it easier to do it again in the opposite direction.

By doing so, Roosevelt and those who followed in his footsteps shifted the consensus.

Otherwise, simmering trade frictions could suddenly throw globalization sharply into reverse.

Japan responded by intervening in the opposite direction dropping interest rates, selling yen, and buying dollars.

When growth falters, or goes into reverse, there is no one to blame but the system.

Thirty years after the Reagan Thatcher revolution, the ideological pendulum has begun to swing in the opposite direction.

That configuration has largely reversed in the past nine months as international capital flows, driven by investment opportunities and returns, return to a more normal pattern.

But this eastern flow of grain was matched by an equally important flow of people and capital in the opposite direction, that is, from East to West.

So, even as economic conservatives demand spending cuts, there are strong forces pushing in the other direction.

Unfortunately, the main advanced economies are following a divergent path which, in some cases, will lead them in the opposite direction in 2011.

As the economist Mark Cooper has put it, nuclear power is actually undergoing a renaissance in reverse.

A float is the portion of a yarn that crosses over two or more yarns from the opposite direction.

I have also written about globalization s anomalies money should flow from rich to poor countries, but in recent years it has been going in the opposite direction.

Now that capital markets are no longer willing to finance these deficits, prices should be going into reverse, but this, obviously, is not happening.

But to call this U turn a stroke of political genius that saved the euro and Helmut Kohl s European legacy is simply delusional.

Lately, of course, the fundamentals have reversed somewhat, and the speculative frenzy has reversed even more.

For starters, the same forces that led to an upward shift in the global savings curve will soon enough begin operating in the other direction.

Central and Eastern Europe has suffered from a massive inflow of Afghan heroin and from the growing transit of precursors in the opposite direction.

Germany had changed course 180 degrees from the main driver of integration was to the main opponent of a transfer union.

Statistical inference, however, moves in the opposite direction inductively inferring from samples to the parameters of a larger or total population.

The flight's opposite direction was partly the result of changes in global wind and weather patterns along the planned route since the earlier attempt.

Eight million Muslim refugees fled India and entered Pakistan, and six million Hindus and Sikhs moved in the opposite direction.

But America s lurch toward a European style social welfare state in Obama s first two years appears to have been halted, if not permanently ended or reversed.

This can be seen as an example of E mc2 working in reverse, where energy is converted into mass, in the early universe.

To turn this situation around, says Sakakibara, the Japanese should work more, have more children, and allow immigration.

Perhaps the moral and intellectual tide will be reversed, and America will remain exceptional for the reasons that Tocqueville identified two centuries ago.