Sentence examples for gloomy trend from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, December was a reversal of the recent gloomy trend, with sales growth the norm across retail chains rather than the exception.

Branson said he wanted to show the world that Virgin was bucking the gloomy trend by moving into sponsorship because that was the only way the economy would return to health.

York University bucked the gloomy trend a tad this morning, though, publishing details of the new bar, bistro and social centre planned for its £500m campus extension, Heslington East.

Ashford, Kent, one of the so-called Portas Pilots, which received government support in 2012 to rejuvenate its shopping centre, is one of the towns that has bucked the gloomy trend.

But today global advertising seems to be one sector bucking the gloomy trend, with the biggest growth sector being online.

The gloomy trend is pre-ordained by the second law of thermodynamics, which states: The entropy of an isolated system tends to increase over time.

But other causes point to gloomier trends that are also having a large impact, such as China's declining industrial base and continuing tepid growth in many European countries, which eats into imports.

The rate of real economic growth is probably the most important determinant and in that respect many people are gloomy: the trend rate of growth in America may have dropped to 2% or below while pessimists put the European rate at 1%. Demographic trends mean the workforce is likely to stagnate or shrink, leaving productivity to do all the work expanding the economy.

Switzerland is bucking the gloomy European trend, with a new report showing a strong year-on-year improvement in retail trade and consumer confidence.

EVEN so, the students were hardly unmindful of gloomy national trends.

The editorial even suggests that the European Union and America should boycott an EU summit in Budapest in May if the law is not rescinded.The current issue of this newspaper includes a leader, about gloomy political trends in eastern Europe, that also deploys the P-word.