This trend could intensify because of the abortion issue, some political professionals say.

The two trends force up rents and intensify the competition for livable low-income housing.

But if the trend intensifies, post-Yeltsin, we may all pay for it.

Two trends in financial innovation reinforced and intensified these fundamental macroeconomic factors.

In the last decades of the century this trend towards sobriety intensified.

"We hope this trend will consolidate and intensify in the last months of the year and the start of 2012."

But that trend intensified: 72 percent of the 18-to-29 age group supported lifting the ban by 2006.

Youthful attitudes are volatile, of course, but this rightward trend may intensify.

The trend toward the local colleges may be intensifying.

These trends were not dispelled but rather intensified by the Cold War.