This, combined with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, saw a rise in actions brought through the courts.
That's because there's also been a rise in "direct action" protests — actions that have seen Trump officials and top Republicans, including Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Stephen Miller, and Steve Bannon, confronted on the street, in restaurants, and even at home.
The investigation, by the Press Association news agency, showed there was a rise in police action following the publication of the CPS guidelines, a move welcomed by campaigners.
And the rise in political action we will see "will be possibly the only good thing that's come out of the Trump administration," as Keisling put it.
The attacks came before dawn on the outskirts of Peshawar, the insurgency-riven capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, which has seen a sharp rise in militant actions recently.
Welfare reforms such as the bedroom tax contributed to an 18% rise in repossession actions by social landlords in 2013-14, a trend expected to rise as arrears increase and temporary financial support shrinks.
Moreover, there was a rise in legal actions against state facilities.Pete Earley, a journalist and author of a book on the American mental-health system, says that in one year in California 19,000 beds were cut.
That's one interpretation of a rise in enforcement actions and ballyhooed initiatives by the likes of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve.
You report that "the distress experienced by children whose parents are divorcing is cause for increasing concern" and that "the rising number of cases puts a further burden on the struggling family court system" (Rise in divorce actions puts extra strain on children, solicitors warn, 9 November).
