Synonym: predominant, prevalent, rife. Similar words: prevail, unavailing, ailing, wailing, failing, availability, prevalent, prevalence. Meaning: [prɪ'veɪlɪŋ] adj. 1. most frequent or common 2. encountered generally especially at the present time.
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31. The same ambivalence is evident in the prevailing attitude toward language.
32. The miners then sell the gold at prevailing rates, and use the future output to pay back the central banks.
33. The value used for the exposure will be reasonable for the prevailing conditions.
34. But this very positive image is almost the exact opposite of the prevailing view about conformity before 1945.
35. This seems to imply that care programming has been considered and dismissed as redundant in view of prevailing systems of mental health care.
36. Presumably such marked fluctuations are connected with the prevailing weather conditions.
37. There was a prevailing view that training schemes run by companies and firms were far better than those run by civil servants.
38. Government adhered to the prevailing orthodoxy that balanced budgets were necessary and desirable and that deficit financing was neither.
39. In the 1970s[Sentence dictionary], the prevailing demand among political activists and their academic sympathizers was for freedom first and education later.
40. As a young man he had a prophetic revelation that led him to preach a new faith in place of the prevailing polytheism.
41. Protection from the prevailing wind can often be provided by rock outcrops or carefully planted shrubs in the background.
42. Certainly, he has a better sense of the prevailing trends than before.
43. He handled superbly and with deep understanding, that basic interrelation of landscape and its prevailing climatic conditions.
44. Such similarities are more likely to reflect prevailing ideas of design - the sentiments of the client perhaps.
45. Prevailing conditions in the organization and distribution of the popular press were partly responsible for this.
46. All too often the outside researcher pursues lines of enquiry which the prevailing culture manages to encompass and nullify.
47. There was an even more profound sense in which the prevailing version of good practice was deficient.
48. The prevailing wisdom is that tight labor markets and higher wages finally will start driving up prices.
49. Imagine what will happen to worker productivity and health-care costs if they all buy into the prevailing images of decline and decay.
50. And the prevailing compensation structure in practically all businesses reinforces this attitude because it is heavily biased towards managerial positions and titles.
51. When he seized power in 1483 he did so not from outside the prevailing political structure but from its heart.
52. Farmers are businessmen and since wages constitute a cost of production they will normally pay no more than prevailing conditions dictate.
53. Mozart decided to enter into the prevailing spirit of the place.
54. As far as public image is concerned(Sentencedict.com), the prevailing consumer-oriented climate is one in which professional practices are increasingly scrutinised.
55. He defends prevailing wage laws for skilled construction workers and supports increasing the minimum wage.
56. It is surely reasonable to maintain that the parties assumed to contract in the light of the scientific knowledge prevailing at the time of delivery.
57. Education the key Education responds to the call of the prevailing culture.
58. The market supply and demand situation prevailing when economic profits become zero will determine the total amount of X produced.
59. For some species, the width of each ring depends on prevailing climatic conditions, such as temperature and rainfall.
60. Each of us spotted a different line of cobbles extending across the plain, perpendicular to the prevailing gradient of slope.
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