Compass needles point to the north.

Everywhere, the signs are pointing backwards.

Which symptoms indicate a sexually transmitted disease?

All the evidence points to his guilt.

Economic conditions point to further inflation.

When they are high, they are apt to crowd out investments in manufactures and other, non traditional tradables.

All these developments subtly indicate a deep trend that can be formalized in one sentence America s unipolar moment, which began in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Empire, is over.

In fact, empirical data suggest the significance of this danger.

However, the traces of violence point out another thing.

In spite of that, there is some evidence that the intensity of hurricanes is increasing.

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This trend is not hard to understand.

The London games confirmed this trend.

He tends to be arrogant.

Evidence suggests that climate change will accelerate this loss.

Supporters of the Euro point to the success of the US, with its single currency.

The outcome certainly signals that people wanted a change.

Now Taiwan's leaders point to Hong Kong as a failed model of a flawed concept.

The image shows a woman from a gang in El Salvador with the tattoos that identify gang members.

Now experts repeatedly point to it as a model for how to really take on deforestation.

But physics does tell us what particles can be produced.

Small acts online have a tendency to affect people's lives in big ways.

The financial crisis may slow this trend.

Bolivia, however, may be poised to buck the latter trend.

Revaluation would accelerate this trend.

Should we welcome this trend?

The world's population tends to increase.

US military strikes against Syria would further fuel extremism and result in widespread atrocities by the rebels against Syrians of all faiths.

Reports point to the execution and mutilation of Syrian government prisoners.

What might trigger a fatal run on the dollar in world markets?

Opponents point to how big retailers decimated the traditional retail segment in the West.

They point to the negative results of China s more assertive policies since the economic crisis of 2008.

His economic failures have highlighted the need for a more moderate and capable president.

Others cite the so called capital glut large inflows of external financing from China and much of the developing world.

Americans increasingly ask Why bother? and point to the efficacy of NATO.

(Money to be made from the illegal traffic in people, by some estimates, already outstrips the profits of the illegal drug trade.) Current trends point toward greater instability, including war.

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Some economists point to highly expansionary monetary policy in the years leading up to the crisis.

Current trends point toward greater instability, including war.

These examples point to the limits of electoral politics and political solutions.

President Putin's keen political antenna has caught this trend.

The pharmaceutical industry has been eyeing this trend for a while.

That is why development tends to be unequal.

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