Sentence examples for longstanding trends from inspiring English sources

While our nineteenth-century predecessors understandably marveled at the railroad or the telegraph, a comparatively vast array of social activities is now being transformed by innovations that accelerate social activity and considerably deepen longstanding trends towards deterritorialization and social interconnectedness.

Those instructions were an effort to counter longstanding trends involving higher interest rates charged to borrowers of color when they take out a car loan.

Published in 2012, it took a look at Mendocino County, California, where Sheriff Tom Allman bucked longstanding trends in American law enforcement and essentially sanctioned regulated, organic, eco-friendly cannabis cultivation.

Transportation experts said the stimulus was drawing attention to a longstanding trend.

But in general richer regions fared better.That continues a longstanding trend.

Stevens will be trying to break a longstanding trend of college coaches who have failed on the main stage.

The Trades Union Congress said the relatively high chance of falling into poverty in the UK was a longstanding trend.

And neither party talks much about the effects of the longstanding trend in which employers have shifted a large share of retirement responsibilities from themselves to their workers.

And a longstanding trend toward safer driving reversed, as the number of deaths per 100 million miles rose to 1.6, from 1.5, the Department of Transportation said.

WASHINGTON — In being named White House counsel less than a year into President Obama's tenure, Robert F. Bauer is reversing a longstanding trend.

The Nets' fall from the top spot continued a longstanding trend: since 1994, the team with the worst record has won the lottery only once.