While this development is of course good news, it speaks to a troubling global trend.
By seeking to toughen its nationality laws, the Netherlands is bucking a global trend.
This is a global trend impacting services offered to nearly 6 billion mobile subscribers around the world.
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Her contention, supported it seems by a leading hiring site, is that techno-despair is a global trend.
Fuel prices remain high, reflecting the global trend, with potential for further rise.
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Their leadership here exemplifies a larger global trend favoring progress in the Americas.
The current conflict between the Koreas illustrates a broader global trend toward chaos along borders separating rich and poor countries.
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SABMiller, which has not done a big deal since 2005, may simply want to join the global trend towards consolidation.
The trend, coined by global trend monitoring firm TrendWatching, describes companies embraced by customers for their authenticity, humanity and willingness to admit mistakes.
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The digitalization of the media landscape reinforces the global trend of freelancing by further expanding journalism beyond the ranks of employees in media institutions.
It's the latest move in a global trend toward packing that shows diseased organs, dying patients, skin lesions or other medical maladies caused by smoking.
We don't have the accuracy yet to determine the magnitude of the average global trend, but we at least are trying to point out the signs of these trends.
That emphasis on giving readers what they want to read, as opposed to what lofty notions of civic responsibility suggest they ought to read, is part of a global trend.
The government's main aim is in line with a global trend: away from fragmented markets run as cosy brokers' clubs, and towards merged national markets managed by proper shareholder-owned companies.
After the city banned smoking in restaurants, bars and clubs in 2003 - itself following Los Angeles, which introduced similar curbs a decade earlier - it helped drive a global trend.
It is a global trend, pioneered, inevitably, in Scandinavia.
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If this is indeed a global trend, then the longer-term inflation implications are huge but investors should also realize that a gradual rise in the rate of inflation is bullish for the stock market.
This hardening of the mind raises an interesting question when combined with a broad global trend: the demographics of aging populations in Europe, Japan, the United States, and other high income countries.
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At Intel, we track health reform in 22 countries, and we see a global trend toward collective payment paying groups of providers to manage the health of a population based on value rather than volume of procedures.
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The global trend of high fuel prices have led to an increase in demand for fuel efficient cars, and Ford will ensure its cars are fitted with fuel-efficient engines ranging from Ecoboost to hybrid and diesel to cash in on this demand.
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If the global trend continues for the next 20 years, then global growth in the 21st century will ring in at a clip superior to the historic period we call the Great Dollar Standard Era from the breakdown of Bretton Woods in 1971 through the palliative Y2K freakout.
Mike Shedlock of Global Economic Trend Analysis was the first to pick up several problems with the details of the report and his analysis is worth a read.
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Clinton is slated to travel to Japan, China, South Korea and Indonesia to discuss a range of issues, including mutual economic recovery, trade, the prevention of nuclear weapons proliferation and reversing the global warming trend.
If those proxies match global temperature measurements, then it would provide independent confirmation of the global warming trend of the past couple of centuries, without being tangled up in some of the difficulties involved in normalizing the measurements.
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The 5 year moving SST temperature average shows that the warming trend peaked in 2003 and a simple regression analysis shows an eight year global SST cooling trend since then .
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While LME prices are not the actual realized prices for Alcoa, they do indicate a broader trend in global aluminum prices.
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That points to the third big industry-wide trend: global integration.
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Clinton also outlined a sweeping agenda of engagement with Asia, ranging from mutual economic recovery and trade to the prevention of nuclear weapons proliferation and reversing the trend of global warming.
He recently chaired a report by the AACSB accrediting body entitled The Globalisation of Management Education, which suggested that the trend for global programmes is only going to continue on an upward curve.
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