Sentence examples for worldwide convergence from inspiring English sources

The pattern of swift, uninterrupted decline is now taken as the norm: the UN uses it to project a worldwide convergence towards the replacement rate of fertility (2.1, the rate at which a population stabilises in the long term).But convergence is not happening in Africa.

The numbers represent 3 year averages around 1990 and 2001 This complex web of economic globalization illustrates how a series of policy reforms in three different countries had the effect of integrating the global soybean oil market, and, in so doing, facilitated the worldwide convergence of higher soybean oil consumption worldwide.

Reflecting this, many of the classic analyses of the 1970s that examined long-term demographic and epidemiological trends concluded that while further significant gains in longevity in countries with low mortality were unlikely, death rates in countries with the high mortality typical of African countries would fall, resulting in a worldwide convergence in mortality (2, 146).

Friday's, a unit of Carlson Restaurants Worldwide, reflects a convergence of restaurant marketing initiatives with growing public awareness of America's well-documented obesity problem.

Energy policies are in transition worldwide based on a convergence of factors including static oil production coupled with increased demand, a desire for energy independence, and growing awareness of climate change.

Mr. President, Madam Chair: the vast and diverse representation at this PrepComm Session - a significantly larger representation than at the First Session last May - is a testament to the deep commitment to children that already exists worldwide - and to the convergence of strategy, resources and action that the UN and its agencies have worked to promote.

A viral sensation online, sparking news headlines worldwide, the festival itself saw the convergence of 10,000 people -- some in costumes, others cradling kitty companions, all feline fanatics -- on the Walker Art Center's hillside one warm August evening last year.

Based on a worldwide database of nanofirms, the paper analyses the degree of convergence and the convergence mechanisms within firms.

Worldwide, there seems to be some movement towards convergence of breast cancer mortality rates.

However, the decline in the power of labor worldwide, as a result of both technological and institutional convergence, has turned much of the world's labor force, including knowledge workers, into precarious workers.

The month that begins today promises a grand cooperative convergence, with a number of important events scheduled worldwide.