Sentence examples for counter a trend from inspiring English sources

Playgrounds encourage exercise and counter a trend of childhood obesity, for example.

Steele designed his training regimen to counter a trend within the Army which he believed was deeply misguided.

Countering a trend of fiscal tightening in other European countries, he has sought to lift social spending for the growing ranks of people who have fallen down the economic ladder.

Low interest rates and a reduction in the pace of public sector spending cuts, especially in Europe, were cited as two of the main reasons for a one percentage point increase in growth across advanced economies, countering a trend for slowing growth across emerging markets.

It seems that this study was successful in countering a trend towards unsafe sex within steady relationships, a difficult behavioural goal to achieve in HIV prevention.

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas today vetoed legislation that would have banned the execution of the mentally retarded, a move that runs counter to a trend among states that have the death penalty.

The governor's plan is similar to one in place in eight other states, but runs counter to a trend in a majority of states to explicitly bar illegal immigrants from obtaining licenses.

The party's dependence on whites runs counter to a trend in which this demographic is expected to be a minority by 2050, or possibly as early as 2040.

But this bleak picture of crime-ridden American streets more dangerous than parts of the world where the US is engaged in military action, such as Afghanistan and Iraq, runs counter to a trend of declining crime that has persisted for more than a quarter of a century.

He stressed – even to an Oxford audience – that "there is life outside the Golden Triangle [of Oxford, Cambridge and London elite universities]", and said that he wanted to see far more investment in the Midlands and North-West of England – which runs counter to a trend of ever-greater R&D concentration in the South East over the past 30 years.

This countered a contemporary trend in series television to target a specific audience demographic.