1. This company is the only one to have bucked the trend of a declining industry.

2. One or two companies have managed to buck the trend of the recession.

3. While other newspapers are losing circulation, we are bucking the trend.

4. Dallas and Houston also bucked the trend.

5. But Liverpool, to their credit,() bucked the trend.

6. Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp. bucked the trend, gaining 3 3 / 4 to 77 1 / 4.

7. But water shares bucked the trend and, as usual, were a haven in times of trouble.

8. Every so often, some one would buck the trend: in 1982 Mr Kinnock was dropped from the slate, but kept his place.

9. Companies making products for the Internet bucked the trend and held up well in the fourth quarter.

10. Electricity shares bucked the trend and rallied, but water sprang a few leaks.

11. Netscape 6 bucks the trend by being somewhat smaller than past releases.

12. Its perfume business , meanwhile, managed buck the trend with sales up 12 %.

13. We wanted to buck the trend and go beyond what's expected by today's business standards.

14. But if you can buck the trend, you'll find that September is when those with the savvy and the means pack their bags and embark on adventure.

15. But men appear to buck the trend after retirement, with higher levels of "life satisfaction" among those aged over 65 than in younger men, according to the report.

16. China tenacious in its conviction that it can buck the trend in world commodity markets.

17. But men appear to buck the trend , with higher levels of "life satisfaction" among those aged over 65 than in younger men, according to the report.

18. In a year when troubled western lenders sold billions of dollars of shares in Chinese banks, a Spanish bank better known for its US and Mexico investments is set to buck the trend.

19. But even if organic is not in your budget, you can buck the trend.

20. Enthusiasm for entrepreneurship last year helped the UK to buck the trend for falls in the number of start-ups in the world's richest countries, an international survey has found.

21. There's not been a baby born to a serving president in nearly 50 years — will President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle buck the trend?