1.   In fact the Longbridge saga was more about global economic trends than currencies.

2.   The global trend towards higher taxation on fuel consumption is souring relations with leading oil-producing states.

3.   But that is too simplistic an approach when dealing with markets influenced by global trends, including currency movements.

4.   Although the recent United Parcel Service strike focused attention on the use of part-timers in the United States, the global trend is quite different.

5.   Britain is joining a global trend.

6.   But in this case the European Central Bank is shortchanging the European economy, which cannot be isolated from global trends.

7.   Child slavery is not a new thing, but because of an emerging global trend, more and more social concern is being addressed toward this problem.

8.   China ... no matter how powerful a nation, has to go along with the global trend.

9.   Cuba is following a global trend in which illegal immigrants are increasingly resorting to professionals to skirt beefed-up interdiction efforts by U.S. and other immigration officials.

10.   E-mail not only speeds the spread of new words, it also helps lexicographers stay abreast of global trends.