A recent trend has been to encourage employees to use their own initiative, to make decisions on their own without asking managers first.

Another trend is off-site or virtual management, where teams of people linked by e-mail and the Internet work on projects from their own houses.

Bookcrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to the \real\ and not the virtual (虚拟).

But phytoplankton are vulnerable to the ocean's warming trend.

Chinese culture fueling international fashion trends.

Economic policies should follow technological trends.

Even their hairstyles became major trends at that time.

If current trends don't bend, Russia's population will be about the size of Yyemen's by the year 2050.

In southern Spain the sudden increase of greenhouses which reflect light back to space has changed the warming trend locally, and actually cooled the region.

Interestingly, this trend isn't evident in baseball, where additional individual talent keeps improving the team's performance.

One of the latest trends in American childcare is Chinese AU pairs.

The majority thought it was a trend.

The numbers might sound small, but they are the leading edge of a dangerous trend.

The trend of having meals alone.

The trend, then, was toward the \penny paper\--a term referring to papers made widely available to the public.

There has been a recent trend in the food service industry toward lower fat content and less salt.

This empowerment has been part of the trend towards downsizing: reducing the number of management layers in companies.

This new trend of newspapers for \ the man on the street \ did not begin well.

This trend, which was started by the medical community as a method of fighting heart disease, has had some unintended side effects such as overweight and heart disease--the very thing the medical community was trying to fight.

Understanding technological trends is very important for correctly designing economic policies, both at the national and the international levels, and for making the right career choices at the individual level.

Yet there is evidence suggesting that the trend is growing.

Urbanization – migration away from the suburbs and to the city center – will be the biggest real estate trend in 2015, according to a new report.

This trend will continue into the 2020s, the report projects.

But a new report by Deloitte, Global Human Capital Trends, based on a survey of more than 7,000 executives in over 130 countries, suggests that the fashion for teamwork has reached a new high.

Apart from the specific trends highlighted above, which cause some investors to worry, the report portrays an overall optimism borne by the recent healthy real-estate upcycle and improving economy.

Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America's largest population group, Millennials ( ' , 千禧 一代), will continue to put off buying a house.

What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices.

The combined effects of those trends and the political tensions they generate point to the breakdown of governments and societies.

Since the current world food shortage is trend-driven, the environmental trends that cause it must be reversed.

On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion ( ' , 转向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.

Of all those trends, however, the spread of water shortages poses the most immediate threat.

In contrast, the recent surge in world grain prices is trend-driven, making it unlikely to reverse without a reversal in the trends themselves.

For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic trends and their interactions.

In its latest update on global employment trends, the agency says projections of the number of unemployed people this year range from 210 million to nearly 240 million people.

How can I help you?The massive decline in sleep happened so slowly and quietly that few seemed to notice the trend.

Global warming is a trend toward warmer conditions around the world.

Scientists are in general agreement that the warmer conditions we have been experiencing are at least in part the result of a human-induced global warming trend

The fast-track trend fills a need, but it's also creating some tension between newcomers and veterans.

Size isn't everything, but it does matter, and the past decade has seen a noticeable counter trend toward smaller schools.

What is most noticeable about the current trend in high school education

The past 15 years or so have been a noticeable period of improvement for food in England, the English chef says, citing the trend in British cuisine for better ingredients, preparation and cooking methods, and more appealing presentation.

Chefs agree that diners in Hong Kong are embracing the modern British trend

The report, to be released Friday, analyzed data and existing studies of health, disaster, population and economic trends.

Economic trends have to do with population and natural disasters

Trends for the development of the motor car.

They think they should follow the current trend.

Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America's largest population group, millennials, will continue to put off buying a house.

Bentham believe the global trend of increasing height has important implications.

Bentham believe the global trend of increasing height has important implications.How tall we are now is strongly influenced by the environment we grew up in, he said.If we give children the best possible start in life now,they will be healthier and mor

But while height has increased around the world, the trend in many countries of north and sub-Saharan Africa causes concern, says Riboli.

James Bentham, a co-author of the research from Imperial College, London, says the global trend is likely to be due primarily to improvements in nutrition and healthcare.

The massive decline in sleep happened so slowly and quietly that few seemed to notice the trend.

While height increased in Uganda and niger during the early 20th century, the trend has reversed in recent years, with height decreasing among l8-year-olds.

The trend of social and economic development.

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.

But the data is exact enough for a clear trend to be easily discernible.

It will take a long time to change the current trend in higher education.

The recent trend toward early decision and early action among selective colleges and universities has pushed the traditional deadline of January up to Nov.

This case gives the court an opportunity to rein in the growing use of patents to protect genetically engineered crops and other life forms―but the court may well use it to give this trend a powerful new endorsement

It is a trend that shows no sign of slowing.

It is trying to follow the trend

They signal future economic trends.

The newer trend is to start recruiting poor and non-white students as early as the seventh grade, using innovative tools to identify kids with sophisticated verbal skills.

It has long become a new trend.

I am responsible for financial development programs in many parts of the world, so forecasting long range trends and making predictions on the basis of present evidence is what I do.

They think travel has become a trend.

But the development of an early-warning system has reversed that trend.

Japan is ahead of the curve when it comes to this trend.

More recently the trend of swapping spaghetti for vegetables has been championed by clean-eating experts.

Researchers are already asking if motor vehicle use has reached its peak and will decline, but transport planners have yet to catch up with this trend, instead of laying new roads to tackle traffic jams.

So when Pemberton created his drink, it represented an ongoing trend.

The collaborative trend is true across scientific disciplines.

These books reflect a trend particularly strong in Britain, where swimming in pools is declining, but more and more folks are opting for open water.

The judges on the Federal circuit are “reacting to the anti-patient trend at the supreme court” ,says Harole C.

The functioning of the market is based on flexible trends dominated by potential buyers.

Overall, Europe’s wholesale market for food and drink is growing at the same sluggish pace as the retail market, but the figures, when added together, mask two opposing trends.

Anecdotal evidence of this kind fits nicely with the idea that only certain special people can drive trends.

This trend ,which we believe is still in its infancy, effectively began with retailers and travel providers such as airlines and hotels and will no doubt go further.

In the last decade or so ,advances in technology have allowed mass-market labels such as Zara ,H&M, and Uniqlo to react to trends more quickly and anticipate demand more precisely.

If left to themselves, such trends will diminish the relative strength of the English language in international education markets as the demand for educational resources in languages, such as Spanish ,Arabic or Mandarin grows and international business process outsourcing in other language such as Japanese, French and German, spreads.

Such a trend is badly needed.

Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living.

Instead, the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend, with countries over the past few years proposing or putting in place an alphabet soup of new international tax provisions.

The \Case Study Houses\ commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts and Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the \less is more\ trend.

The trend toward \less\ was not entirely foreign.

This trend, which we believe is still in its infancy, effectively began with retailers and travel providers such as airlines and hotels and will no doubt go further.

We still have the imaginative capacity to rise above temptation and reverse the high-speed trend.

While there's a long way to go, the trend lines for renewables are spiking.