The increased popularity of new condos with water views "represents a distinct trend," Mr. Mortier said.
A look at the fall lineup on Broadway indicates a distinct trend toward the intelligent.
With his permed mane, snappy dress and plain speech, Mr. Koizumi himself has been a distinct trend setter.
There is a distinct trend toward parental care, especially in the colonial forms.
So there is a slight but distinct trend suggesting having a man sent off is no longer quite such a negative as it was.
AS much as it is part of the distinct trend toward the simple, the iPhone is also part of a trend to make a device versatile.
Forget the wine-soaked book club meetings: joining the rise and rise of WoWs (Women on the Wagon) is a distinct trend for 2015.
This time, the CNN run has been more sustained, though even a quarter of a year is far from a distinct trend.
"My purpose in writing you," Dwight W. Fawcett of North Palm Beach, Fla., complained, "is to express my disappointment in what I perceive, over the last year or so, as a distinct trend towards making the puzzles more difficult".
Dennis Abbott, the European Commission spokesman on education, pointed to "a distinct trend to increased cost sharing" between students and state sources, although he stressed that "where tuition fees are a feature, these should be supported by grants and/or loans to ensure that financing does not represent an undue barrier to participation in higher education".
There is a distinct trend towards simultaneous purification and immobilization strategies.
