As we all know, three people constitute a trend.
Such slight slippage does not constitute a trend.
He denied Russia had deeply rooted issues with racism, insisting that a few isolated incidents did not constitute a trend.
Despite two recent highly publicized deaths from anesthesia in a New York hospital, such events, shocking as they are, do not constitute a trend.
moves and stated opinions, that taken altogether constitute a trend that poses the gravest threat to the rights guaranteed by the Consitution to all citizens: Pres.
If the numbers turn out to constitute a trend, it could signal other social implications: modestly reviving the multi-generational family and further delaying marriage and childbearing.
Four games may not seem like much of a sample, but in the National Football League, where a season is 16 games, it's more than enough to constitute a trend.
Catherine Ashton, the European Union's policy chief, said this week, "The ongoing raids, taken together with the recent package of legislation that curtails the civil freedoms of the Russian population … constitute a trend that is deeply troubling".
America's current-account deficit, at 5% of GDP, is still huge, and one month's statistics scarcely constitute a trend, but it is at least possible that the fall in the dollar is finally having some effect.The second factor that may sustain the dollar, at least for now, is that foreign investors seem to have been more enthusiastic about buying American assets.
One hit doesn't constitute a trend, but the audience enthusiasm for "The Producers" is so over-the-top -- and so lucrative -- that you can bet it is rapidly becoming a show-business case study that could yet play at least some role in liberating other mainstream pop culture, not just the rarefied world of Broadway, from the p.c. sanitization that has become such a bore over the past two decades.
