That's the term the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life uses to describe the religiously unaffiliated, a category that its new report, "Nones on the Rise," shows has been soaring in number over the past few years and now surpasses white evangelical Protestants as well as white mainline Protestants, second only to Catholics.
Business school applications soar in number during recessions.
But 15 years later, encouraged by feminist legal theorists, judges and juries began to stretch the limits of what constituted sexual "discrimination".In 1991 two events led sexual-harassment suits to soar in number and value.
After going through an experimental phase of development, mini-satellites began to soar in number, said Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who tracks global launches and publishes Jonathan's Space Report.
In her 195-page decision, Judge Scheindlin concluded that the stops, which soared in number over the last decade as crime continued to decline, demonstrated a widespread disregard for the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government, as well as the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.
Asked about the use of drone strikes, which have soared in number during his presidency, Mr Obama said "a lot of these strikes have been in the Fata", or Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
After the chaos of this series, in which homers soared in record numbers and bullpen decisions endured unceasing scrutiny, a winner will be crowned Wednesday.
As the Press Association reports, official statistics reveal that a record 61,600 graduates left university with a first last summer, with the numbers soaring in the past five years.
"It's a damning reflection of our society that night after night, so many people are forced to sleep rough on our streets – with numbers soaring in the capital – especially when we know that with the right commitment, rough sleeping could be ended for good," said the chief executive of the Crisis charity, Jon Sparkes.
Property prices have soared in a number of cities. And unlike in China, where inflation remains subdued the cost of living has been rising at a worrying rate.
