Sentence examples for sustained trend from inspiring English sources

He said he thought this winter's odd weather had more to do with atmospheric variability, rather than some larger sustained trend.

Polly then simulated evolution in simple (i.e., unimodal, one peak) and complex (i.e., multimodal randomly distributed peaks that varied in slope and height) adaptive landscapes under distinct selection modes: random fluctuation, directed or sustained trend, stabilizing, and drift.

That, after all, has been the sustained trend over many years and in many countries.

This is part of a sustained trend," Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles, told the Los Angeles Times.

The review of the health-care landscape notes a sustained trend of increasing consolidation activity across all sectors of the health-care system.

"We need to see a little more data and a sustained trend," said Rae D. Rosen, senior economist and assistant vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

In 1996 then governor Laurence Meyer defined it thus:Under this strategy, once inflation becomes modest, as today, Federal Reserve policy in the near term focuses on sustaining trend growth at full employment at the prevailing inflation rate.

The more important point is that unemployment has been on a sustained downward trend.

But others say it is folly to propose lengthening the potentially destructive travel season amid a sustained warming trend.

"Looking at the international and domestic economic situation, currently there is no basis for a sustained depreciation trend for the yuan," it said.

"The situation has stabilized and there is a sustained downward trend," said Dr. Margaret Chan, while warning that further work was needed to keep the number of new cases declining.