"We think that with hindsight this winter will look like a dip in an otherwise still unfolding fairly strong growth trend that is partly fueled by the ongoing economic recovery of in North America and Europe and longer standing trends across key emerging market economies".
She set out to subvert and critique the standing market trend with her own avatar.
"After waking up between six and seven in the morning, I write till 10 30, generally at a lectern which faces a bright corner of the room instead of the bright audiences of my professorial days," Nabokov told the Times (looks like someone was ahead of the standing desk trend).
The split solidified a long-standing trend for Roman Catholics to support the party.
But the erosion of trust in government, which laid the groundwork for the Reagan revolution and the Democratic reaction of the Clinton years, is a long-standing trend.
William Hague is being blamed for the catastrophe that is about to engulf his party, but in fact he has only trailed a long-standing trend in which the Tories have become increasingly alienated from the rest of society.
"We started planning then about how we could get into the conversation" during the 2012 holiday season, he added, and discussions turned to "a long-standing trend, which hit the radar screen for us about three years ago".
Greene takes 50's loss of fear as the latest example of a long-standing trend in American philosophy, echoing Franklin D Roosevelt's 1933 inauguration speech (made during the Great Depression), when he declared that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself".
But this long-standing trend was made worse by the recession; participation in states hit harder by the recession fell more than it did in those less afflicted, according to Christopher Erceg and Andrew Levin of the International Monetary Fund.In theory, a hotter economy should draw some of these workers back into the labour market.
The result is a downward spiral: the more Mr Obama fails, the more he resorts to the permanent campaign, and the more he resorts to the permanent campaign, the more he becomes just like any other president.To add to the impression of business as usual, Mr Obama is continuing the long-standing trend of amassing ever more power in the White House.
