Sentence examples for converging trends from inspiring English sources

People of low socioeconomic status (SES) (albeit not the poorest of the poor) are more likely to be influenced – over the long-term – by the converging trends of the global marketplace: the economic and cultural convergence towards cheap vegetable oils, trans-fats, and imitations of heavily promoted products whose desirability has been stimulated by their earlier popularity among wealthier groups.

These converging trends are responsible for an increasing significance of product liability.

One contributor, Frank F. Furstenberg, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, cites converging trends of single motherhood by race, with the number of non-Hispanic white children living with two parents declining over a generation.

"As Sundar [Pichai, Google's vice president of product management] said in his presentation, we're reaching a perfect storm of converging trends where computers are behaving more like mobile devices, and phones are behaving more like small computers.

The creation of age-friendly environments worldwide has been promoted by the World Health Organization as a strategy to address the challenges posed by the converging trends of urbanisation and population.

As I've written in the past, these kind of market fluctuations are always a result of multiple factors, or converging trends.

As a result, we drew the figures (Figs. 2a and b, 3a and b) to respectively illustrate the converging trend of moderating effects with the same predictors on general work-family conflict.

Regarding overweight, we found a converging trend in Turkish women (OR: 2.71, CI: 1.98– 3.72 in first generation and OR: 1.49, CI: 1.06 2.10 in second generation).

Croydon, on London's southern edge, has also become more criminal: it suffered badly in the 2011 riots.An obvious reason for this converging trend is that high-crime areas had most scope for improvement, says Mike Hough of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research.

Risk ratios calculated for individual time periods each representing one third of the follow-up time in phase 1 did not demonstrate any converging trend (data not shown), arguing against a significant effect of contamination, although clearly there was limited power to detect anything but a major effect.

The individual NHS countries showed a converging trend over the three years towards the mean.