"turn the trend" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are discussing something related to a specific trend, such as a change in a particular direction or behavior. For example: "The financial markets have been in slow decline for months, but the new plan could turn the trend and help the economy rebound."
But it may be too late by then to turn the trend around.
He said that getting children involved in hunting earlier would be one way to turn the trend around.
It has profiles of around 300,000 doctors and over 1m reviews.Increasingly, doctors, hospitals and health systems are seeking to turn the trend to their advantage.
To turn the trend around, Girardi has taken a relatively laissez-faire approach to handling the slump, insisting that overreaction or panic on his part will backfire.
Instead, he suggests another way for the company to differentiate itself from its rivals and to turn the trend towards commoditisation from a weakness into a strength.The merged company, he proposes, "should position itself as the vendor taking PC economics to the enterprise".
What will turn the trend next year is the nation's continued expansion and an improved trade deficit, contrary to the baleful signals everyone seems to be heeding (click here for story).
Two events turned the trend around: the summer deluge and the looming threat of war against Iraq.
"There is a sense of relief that we've turned the trend around," said Garry F. McCarthy, the deputy police commissioner of operations.
Reagan turned the trend into a governing philosophy, declaring on becoming president in 1981 that: "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem".
Armed with power point slides, charts and complex data, trends, models and words like "synergy," I was the junior member of the name consulting team ready to explain to the client executive team just why sales were in a free fall and how we could help them, with our data and "action planning" and training packages, turn the bad trends into good trends.
New approaches to turn the negative trend are needed.
