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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61. It did not mount a sustained challenge against globally-organised capitalism, concentrated state power or even prevailing discrimination against homosexuals.
62. The problem is further exacerbated by the prevailing view as to the nature and constituents of leadership in schools.
63. Baby, baby, who's got the baby might be the prevailing motif in this work that entertains and intrigues simultaneously.
64. The prevailing economic order had to be challenged, and out of the conflict a new world order would emerge.
65. The prevailing rates are published daily in the Financial Times, and are also displayed on Prestel and in all our branches.
66. No one determines if the company is actually paying the prevailing wage.
67. These are worthy of repetition to the extent that they give some indication of the prevailing mood of practitioners.
68. Those late 1940s now seem light years away from the customs prevailing in present day society.
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69. But the prevailing wisdom in the industry is that the market is doubling each year as the Internet continues its explosive growth.
70. The prevailing theory held that protein was most likely the material conveying heredity.
71. It provided year-by-year evidence of prevailing trends in public health.
72. The current wisdom is devised for the prevailing types of mind and body and to support the prevailing institution.
73. But it has been further seen that strong justification is needed for adopting a system at variance with prevailing medical views.
74. Mr Sugar warned that prevailing exchange rates were forcing Amstrad to raise prices, causing demand to fall for certain products.
75. Taken with other environmental indicators, such as land snail shells and insect remains, they also give information about the prevailing climate.
76. There is a prevailing tendency to discuss the theory of the double tax charge without quantifying it.
77. It attributed this to the prevailing civil war and climatic conditions as well as to deficiencies in state apparatus.
78. Given the prevailing views about where responsibility for curricula rested, these findings are not perhaps totally unpredictable.
79. But in the prevailing higher education culture they seem to represent neither one thing nor the other.
80. He faces the open end to the east, away from the sun and prevailing wind.
81. He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out.
82. What, for example, is the prevailing attitude in the family towards the black child dating the neighbour's daughter?
83. It is alien to what the prevailing populace believes, or what it thinks it should believe.
84. In July 1941, however, the prevailing mood about post-war employment was pessimistic.
85. This would entitle the tenant to have a new tenancy at the then prevailing market rent.
86. The official exchange rate, was henceforth to be adjusted weekly in line with the prevailing market rate.
87. Beginning salaries were slightly higher in selected areas where the prevailing local pay level was higher.
88. Rude power is out of mesh with the prevailing patterns of legitimate constitutional authority.
89. With private companies, Datastream has estimated the value of the shareholdings in line with prevailing stock market values.
90. Most of the Group's markets were affected by the prevailing economic environment.
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