This discourse is in turn reinforcing trends toward increasing xenophobia among the broader population.
Over the past three-and-a-half decades these mutually reinforcing trends have resulted in a surge in "landslide" counties, meaning counties in which one of the candidates won by 20 points or more, a trend documented by Bishop and Cushing.
Regulators and market participants were all well aware that too much credit was being doled out too cheaply, yet models showed that risk-weighted capital ratios were healthy (see chart 9).Leaning or cleaning?Mr Persaud and other critics of the Basel 2 regime have long argued that it is "procyclical", reinforcing trends rather than counterbalancing them.
There are four mutually reinforcing trends in the private military industry: resilience, globalization, indigenization, and bifurcation.
In the end, the shoes that offered newness or reinforced trend won out, although that's not to say that novelty wasn't rewarded (see Versace's fishnet boots), or that gut reactions weren't acted upon.
That would reinforce trends that are already visible within NATO, such as role-sharing between America and its European partners.
The Great Recession and the slow recovery have reinforced trends toward inequality and inadequate pay that were evident even before the last downturn.
What RRI does already is to reinforce trends towards stakeholder and citizen engagement with science, and to some extent, innovation.
Two things, both of which reinforce trends already at work in the microfinance sector.
Instead, those tax policies reinforced trends of ever-widening income inequality; the top 1% of earners captured 65% of all income gains during the Bush economic expansion while the top 1% also received 38% of the value of the Bush-era tax cuts in 2010, according to TPC.
But for now, the growing regulatory burden on business is reinforcing a trend toward slower growth, economists say.
