An important reason for the merger was the international trend towards concentration.

It is possible to discern some international trends in economic policy.

The size of the notes was reduced in line with international trends.

This places him within the international trend, in which "installation art is a theatrical set without a stage play to give it meaning."

In Australia the viewpoint of education has been modeled after those international trends.

But he said he did not know if the city could buck national and international economic trends on its own.

The most common view seems to be that Americans have witnessed the more extreme effects of several international trends toward greater economic inequality.

These plans were not only the central pieces in a nation-wide process but also formed part of an international trend.

We were the first in the Arab world to absorb the major international trends and marry them to local traditions.

The exclusion from patent of computer programs reflects international trends.