Local clergy debated whether to stall the trend by simply refusing, he said.
The outbreak of armed conflict in Nicaragua stalled a trend of declining infant mortality rates [ 13], and Eastern Myanmar, an area affected by ongoing ethnic conflicts, has a high level of infant mortality [ 16, 20].
Despite wide product availability and choice, many retailers reported that actual demand for the product, while initially high, had slowed down and in some areas stalled; a trend attributed by some retailers to customers' unwillingness to switch and to the product's perceived failure to match the properties of conventional tobacco.
(The trend stalled briefly after the Sept. 11 attacks, but has since resumed).
Then, for about a period of twenty-five years, that trend stalled — and the question was why.
Dramatic supply-side reforms in British industry implemented by the Thatcher government, Mr Broadberry and Mr Crafts both suggest, were the forces that enabled this remarkable turnaround in performance and permanantly increased Britain's trend rate of growth.There is also little evidence that Britain's turnaround will stall, if present trends continue.
But earlier this week, the comet's brightening trend again seemed to sputtering and stalling, but more recent observations suggest a sudden and radical upsurge in brightness.
Notice the trend's steepness, even after unemployment began stalling.
The buildings buck the trend of stalled projects that were eventually sold to new developers who significantly changed the original designs.
Tom Pankratz, director of the International Desalination Association, said such a deal would fly in the face of an international trend of stalled projects.
The general trend, though stalled slightly by the recent financial crisis, has been a decline in the domestic value-added component of all exports which suggests that markets are becoming more interdependent.In this section Output, prices and jobs Markets The Economist commodity-price index Value-added trade Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Reprints.
