Sentence examples for benign trend from inspiring English sources

What had been a relatively benign trend has become a rupture, endangering one relationship and one transatlantic institution after another.

The only area that saw more gang crime was the San Fernando Valley, where only one gang has been harried.Whether this benign trend continues is another matter.

The long-term trend has been downwards.It is where prices and markets do not operate properly that this benign trend begins to stumble, and the genuine problems arise.

The benign trend of a strong dollar and weak commodity prices seems to be on the turn, bringing worries of higher inflation.China, and regional political stability, is always perilously hard to predict.

"However it is possible that today's inflation figures are the start of a more benign trend and that a hike will not occur until later in the year or perhaps beyond".

These benign trends may be hard to believe, especially if you've been watching pictures from Iraq or listening to warnings about terrorists acquiring nuclear weapons.

Cynics snipe that crime fell in DC as it fell everywhere, for demographic reasons; that it was the housing boom that balanced the budget; and that it is no great achievement to make Washington solvent when the city is home to the greatest cash-spouting entity on earth.This is surely unfair: rather than surfing these benign trends, Mr Williams could have bucked them (as his predecessors did).

In other words, what we're seeing here is more than a benign, demographic trend; it's a trend that is also a function of weak labor demand failing to pull people into to the job market.

We confirmed that the associations did not substantially change using the models, which incorporated the other factors, including body mass index, age at menarche, and history of benign breast disease (trend OR=1.66; 95% CI=1.33 2.07), or vitamin B2, B6, and B12 (trend OR=1.70; 95% CI=1.37 2.13).

Cholnoky tells Forbes that despite eroding fundamentals in the property and casualty business, return on equity should hold up, given favorable reserve development and the continuation of benign loss cost trends.

But if we investigate what lies behind the headline figures we see that this is not a simply benign economic and social trend from which we might all expect to benefit.