11.   But they could be challenging a trend by emphasizing creativity and style over physicality.

12.   Congress can help to reverse this trend by ratifying the free trade agreement with Vietnam that was completed last year under President Bill Clinton.

13.   Discerning real estate trends by the numbers is an inexact science, at best.

14.   Divining real estate trends by the numbers is a murky exercise, at best.

15.   Divining real estate trends by the numbers is, at best, a murky exercise.

16.   Even the central bank acknowledges the trend by publishing an exchange rate each day solely for determining dollar-based transactions.

17.   Eisen telegraphed his awareness of the magnetic closure trend by sewing a chunky, functionless button to the outside of his coats.

18.   Failure to reverse that trend by either raising payroll taxes, reducing spending or a combination of the two ensures that the trust fund will run out of money.

19.   Fernandez can help reverse that trend by energizing an entire community.

20.   Flag wearers explain the trend by saying that Brazilians do not have an attachment to the flag as a national symbol like Americans do.