But after a while you realise you're not in the realm of psychology at all, but of allegory (and if you don't, a nudge or two from the narrator - "it seemed to me that America, too, was increasingly giving itself over to a dangerous nostalgia" - soon sets you straight).
With other commodities, such as cereals and beef, farmers are increasingly given direct payments unrelated to production or are even paid not to produce.
It seems to me that the interests of the violent, drug dealing and bullying few are increasingly given precedence over the interests of the quiet, law-abiding many'.
The Syrian National Council (SNC), a foreign-based group that has struggled to become an umbrella for myriad opposition factions, is increasingly given the cold shoulder not only by frustrated Western governments but also by Mr Assad's Syrian foes.
In a world in which managers – under the guidance of the FA's new elite-performance director of bland corporate babble, Gareth Southgate – are increasingly given to saying nothing whatsoever in the least interesting manner possible over the longest timeframe, this sort of impish linguistic whimsy is to be welcomed.
Supply chain studies are increasingly given top priority in enterprise-wide management.
One extreme case is represented by Indonesia, where volcano scientists are increasingly given the duty of recommending practical actions that directly impact the societies at risk, such as evacuation or relocation of human settlements.
As such, research and development of the pre-combustion carbon capture has been conducted to overcome the drawbacks of this conventional approach, and incorporation of ionic liquid (IL) has been increasingly given attention.
Later on, attention came to be increasingly given to several hypotheses of "secular stagnation" in those economies (Canuto, 2014b).
