But a decade on, and as the migrant crisis throughout Europe has escalated, it's clear this term is becoming increasingly problematic.
It's becoming increasingly problematic when it comes to making UK films that can draw in big audiences and make a mark globally.
"The actual and potential conflicts also present challenges in sharing information on policy and operational activities that are becoming increasingly problematic," Bowles said.
And Colin's behavior is becoming increasingly problematic, or so Annette and Dave, the project manager and Colin's other boss, see it.
Disk-oriented approaches to online storage are becoming increasingly problematic: they do not scale gracefully to meet the needs of large-scale Web applications, and improvements in disk capacity have far outstripped improvements in access latency and bandwidth.
As the acque alte occur more frequently, largely due to rising sea levels, gondoliers are having more and more trouble getting their boats under bridges – and, as the highest part of the boat, the stern iron is becoming increasingly problematic.
"More and more companies are hitting the brakes on investment and day-to-day business decisions are becoming increasingly problematic," the CBI's chief economist, Rain Newton-Smith, said.
The demand of energy, as well as the construction materials used in buildings, are becoming increasingly problematic for the earth's sustainable future, and thus have led to alarming concern.
In this paper we show the relevance of this argument, by using wildfires as symptoms of the challenges posed by global change to western societies, where wildfires are becoming increasingly problematic.
Those who wanted to lose the leap second said that the one-second increments were becoming increasingly problematic for a vast range of modern navigational and communication systems, such as sat-nav, financial services, air traffic control and the internet.
