Sentence examples for the universal trend from inspiring English sources

We may not be witnessing the universal trend towards secularisation which was mistakenly predicted by many 20th century sociologists of religion.

HarperCollins is making a bold move, but it seems unlikely readers will buck the universal trend of convergence seen in everything from supermarkets to app stores and start shopping around for their books.

An analysis of the residual strain in thin strained Ge layers indicates that the response of these crystals also follows the universal trend and is described using a simple equilibrium model.

The universal trend in all WT and transgenic mice was a large amount of total retinal d-serine at postnatal age 2 (P2), followed by a dramatic decrease as the mice matured into adulthood (P70 80).

It is now well established from a plethora of comparative genome studies that the universal trend among endosymbiotic bacteria is the steady accumulation of deleterious mutations, high rates of nucleotide substitutions (reflected by a high AT-content), and progressive genome shrinkage [ 7, 8, 21].

Each of these three groups corresponds roughly to a third of all premature births; the data generated in our center confirms this universal trend [ 5].

With the almost universal trend of population ageing, a growing social gap among the elderly has become a key challenge for global health.

San Diego's movement toward neotraditional urbanism coupled with an increasing reliance on mass transit mirrors a trend that is on the rise in cities everywhere, and Ford shows how this movement has the potential to revitalize transit nodes based on small-town place identity, while diminishing the once universal trend toward homogeneous strip malls.

To counter the seemingly universal trend toward homophily, Torkington invited his readers to figure out how to create "serendipity". One information-technology specialist described a feature he would add to Facebook called "the Stretch," which would help students "find a group of people a little different" from themselves.

Bibliometric baseline comparison allows direct comparative assessment of the predictive ability of methods compared to these universal trends.

A number of Jews, under their leader Jason, the high priest, took the easy way of conformity with the new universal trends.