The split solidified a long-standing trend for Roman Catholics to support the party.
Premiums for single coverage did not rise significantly in 2009, breaking a long-standing trend.
But the erosion of trust in government, which laid the groundwork for the Reagan revolution and the Democratic reaction of the Clinton years, is a long-standing trend.
"We started planning then about how we could get into the conversation" during the 2012 holiday season, he added, and discussions turned to "a long-standing trend, which hit the radar screen for us about three years ago".
William Hague is being blamed for the catastrophe that is about to engulf his party, but in fact he has only trailed a long-standing trend in which the Tories have become increasingly alienated from the rest of society.
Furthermore, my research suggests that during his 2002-2010 presidency, Uribe continued the long-standing trend that enabled well-organized landowners to use their local political power and market power to appropriate public lands.
The decline in history majors since 2008 is only an acceleration of a long-standing trend: The percentage of college students majoring in history has dropped by roughly two-thirds in the past 50 years.
This bifurcation of the resolution planning requirements reflects a long-standing trend that pre-dated the confirmation of a new Vice Chairman for Supervision at the Federal Reserve and the pending nomination of a new FDIC chairman, and is a reasonable response to the cost and burden imposed on all filers irrespective of their potential systemic importance to the U.S. financial system.
Greene takes 50's loss of fear as the latest example of a long-standing trend in American philosophy, echoing Franklin D Roosevelt's 1933 inauguration speech (made during the Great Depression), when he declared that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself".
But this long-standing trend was made worse by the recession; participation in states hit harder by the recession fell more than it did in those less afflicted, according to Christopher Erceg and Andrew Levin of the International Monetary Fund.In theory, a hotter economy should draw some of these workers back into the labour market.
The result is a downward spiral: the more Mr Obama fails, the more he resorts to the permanent campaign, and the more he resorts to the permanent campaign, the more he becomes just like any other president.To add to the impression of business as usual, Mr Obama is continuing the long-standing trend of amassing ever more power in the White House.
