Tokyo and the greater metropolitan area surrounding the capital, with a total population of some 38 million, have long bucked the trend in Japan when it comes to demographics, even as Japan's overall population shrinks.
Derek Richardson, the senior responsible officer at Pearson, said Chinese has "bucked the trend" of the fall in popularity of modern languages.
Just then, Star bucked.
" While the global PC market has been shrinking since 2013, Apple has bucked the trend and seen sales of its MacBook increase a trend that HP wants to emulate.
One original-minded film that bucked the trend was "The Martian," starring Matt Damon as a kind of Robinson Crusoe on Mars.
For several years, emerging market economies bucked the trend but capital spending has now slowed in such countries as well.
Said the rules of society couldn't be bucked for a yard by a team of ten-millionaires.
