How To Use Prevail In A Sentence
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His wonder and admiration were again excited by the neatness and perfect order that prevailed throughout the encampment, the six guns of a battery aligned with mathematical precision and accompanied by their caissons, prolonges, forage-wagons, and forges.
The Downfall
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Hopefully, some of the more level-headed members of the council can prevail and make the Boom Town fiasco a bust.
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I could not but acknowledge that the local governments had, as it seemed to him, evinced but little sympathy with Hindooism; and that whatever might be European policy in respect to religion, the East India Company might have participated in the desire which prevails in Europe to develop ancient customs, and the reasons of those customs.
Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
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But the settlements prevailed, delusory shortcuts to a palpable proof that the Jewish people were truly blessed by God.
The Chosen Peoples
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Open source software is often portrayed as a breakthrough in the free and open exchange of intellectual property, without precedent in the prevailing global capitalist mentality.
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This involves the prevailing sense of disregard for life at the fetal stage on the part of legislators.
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Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters.
Jamaica Information Service
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In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
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It's actually a Hindu religious symbol meaning `let good prevail.
CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 8: THE FIVE PATHS
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The prevailing wind is from the southwest.
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Florin dismissed any notion of martial law-like conditions prevailing.
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There was not the same sense of hopelessness that prevailed in previous conflicts.
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In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
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By resorting to nonwar means of achieving his objectives, he would earn worldwide acclamation and gratitude by letting peace prevail, following the wise old saying, "Discretion is the better part of valor.
Mail Call: Show Us The Proof
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Unpleasant weather conditions prevailed and the players slithering on the greasy surface was a common occurrence.
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He inherited an uneasy alliance of liberals and social democrats and he knew that, intellectually, the former had to prevail.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tartan army, for many a source of national pride as a good-natured counterpoint to prevailing hooliganism elsewhere, is now routinely derided in the press for its apparent buffoonery and lack of knowledge of the beautiful game.
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The Court of Appeals held that Hallberg was judicially estopped from indemnity from Portland because his claim was factually inconsistent with claims he made defending the previous suit on which he had prevailed.
One less bell to answer (Jack Bog's Blog)
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The East Wind prevails over the West Wind.
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These major die-offs will continue to occur at unpredictable intervals when the most extensive, persistent, extremely unfavourable snow and ice conditions prevail.
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To see that sanity can for once prevail over the country's foremost fresh foods market should please all.
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Her achievement was more impressive given the unfavourable prevailing economic conditions.
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Because of the invariable growth of the counteracting force known as Regionalism, or Nationalism, the Spiritual Power can not prevail.
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If a citizen is wronged by any party, he or she can count on it that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights will protect him and justice will prevail.
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In the event of conflicting priorities, the original property rights of owners and commoners should prevail.
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In these Puppenspiele (puppet-shows) the comic element largely prevails and is kept up by the comic figure Kasperle, a buffoon or 'Hanswurst' of the same character as the Italian Pulcinella, the progenitor of our
The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'
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Calmer heads will always prevail.
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Actually, the prevailing wisdom that iambic pentameter is somehow ideal for relating the rhythms of English speech seems deeply flawed to me.
Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Malemute, nor Hudson Bay; he looked like all of them and he didn't look like any of them; and on top of it all he had some of the white man's dog in him, for on one side, in the thick of the mixed yellow - brown-red-and-dirty-white that was his prevailing colour, there was a spot of coal-black as big as a water-bucket.
That Spot
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Peace and calm prevail on most weekday evenings - the best time to enter through the stone torii gate and join the faithful.
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Under the economic despotism that prevails in American business, they are subject to the diktat of their bosses.
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Agriculture (MOFA) on Tuesday said all canoes along Ghana's coast have been assigned registration numbers for easy identification and other outreach Africa, has been identified as the foodstuff to provide food security for Africa, given the assets and opportunities prevailing on the ...
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The extremists prevailed, and the security minister was canned.
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Who knows which captain will prevail this time?
Times, Sunday Times
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Cuba will make every effort to preserve the atmosphere of détente and mutual respect that has prevailed in that area in the past few years.
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When prices are fluctuating, general confusion prevails regarding the behaviour of relative prices.
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The prevailing principle of the composition seems to have been the employment of the fewest words, thus rendering the work a constant brachylogy.
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On life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
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He examined in detail its toxic effects, displaying an impressive grasp of prevailing medical theories.
THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
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key one's actions to the voters' prevailing attitude
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The construction industry is in the doldrums and its arguments have prevailed.
Times, Sunday Times
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We ended the last chapter with the glacial conditions that prevailed eighteen thousand years ago.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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As one researcher writes in a study on moods and menstruation in college students, 'negative behavior exhibited premenstrually is perceived as evidence for the prevailing negative stereotype of female emotional behavior while positive behavior is ignored as something for which biology is irrelevant.'
PMS
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If there is an inconsistency between lease and counterpart primafacie the lease prevails.
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It aims also to establish straightforward and honest dealings among the catteries and to do away with the humbuggery which prevails in some quarters about the sales and valuation of high-bred cats.
Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others
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The future of such traffic decisions depends on what political vision will prevail.
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During this period, private property prevailed in areas controlled by Spanish and criollo communities while communal property remained the standard of indigenous communities.
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Hopefully the positive forecast Peter holds for the future will prevail.
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Where there special provision in any other law or administrative regulation the special provision shall prevail.
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Pollen traps constructed from petroleum jelly on microscope slides were attached to vertical wooden laths facing the direction of the prevailing wind.
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Given the prevailing south-west to north-east winds of the Sudbury summer, Penage is normally upwind, not downwind, from the smokestacks.
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A prevailing style of dress has become known as being ‘in fashion’, but fashion has been described as a tyrannically democratic force, enforcing conformity to current social or moral conventions.
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This fashion still prevails.
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Bukey's interpretation of Austria's annexation to Germany largely follows the prevailing view.
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Truth will prevail.
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These are the questions that plague Coronilla and thousands of others whose relatives from across Latin America have vanished in recent years as lawlessness prevails in large swaths of Mexico.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Imagine what will happen to worker productivity and health-care costs if they all buy into the prevailing images of decline and decay.
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Of course, the Free Family of Olema chose this mode of existence, while even those among Boydston's subjects who engaged in waged work could not avoid this strategy, because the purchasing power of prevailing wages could not replace the unwaged labor power that women and children provided to the household economy. back
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
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It was a nice song, I liked it so much I prevailed upon my Dad to buy it for me…
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An excellent situation is prevailing in the foreing trade.
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In reply to the first part of the objection, we would observe, that among all uncivilized people rites and customs prevail, which are abhorent to the better instructed christian; and with regard to the latter we would ask, what can be expected to result from a system which so degrades and brutifies a class of men, repressing everything that is noble and generous in them, and encouraging the growth of all that is vicious and mischievous in their merely animal nature.
God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
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In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
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They stop work, attend to and resolve before sleep any inharmonious conditions that may arise, knowing that creativity lies dormant while conflict prevails.
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Justice has prevailed; the guilty man has been punished.
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In the interventionist state the executive is likely to prevail over the legislature.
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The hunt has strong religious overtones, and it can only succeed if harmony and peace prevail.
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Instead, a rationalistic view of reality prevails over an affectivity which is weak and ultimately unpersuasive.
High school anthology: "The Cold Equations"
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There is no use in seeing the parlous situation of the Aboriginal community as requiring increased funding. We first have to unshackle ourselves from much of the confusion that prevails.
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A dark, sometimes almost funereal, mood prevails.
Times, Sunday Times
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Faith that justice would prevail impelled us forward.
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The president of Business Process Industries Association of India, Samir Chopra, says eventually economic pragmatism will prevail, ensuring that outsourcing continues to flourish.
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England's Regency style was a natural outgrowth of the neoclassical style that prevailed in eighteenth-century Europe.
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The prevailing state of the world is one of irreligion, which is bound to result in anarchy and confusion.
Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era
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These were certainly powerful arguments for sending the coach back, but they did not prevail.
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These customs still prevail in remote areas.
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It gives us a measure of the indulgent sympathy and religious tolerance which prevailed in this Evangelical home, that the parents should have unhesitatingly supplied the boy of fourteen, at some cost of time and trouble, with all the accessible writings of the "atheistical" poet, and with those of his presumably like-minded friend Keats as well.
Robert Browning
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In contrast to the dimers which prevail in the dephosphorylated state, the tetramers or higher oligomers of the NtrC-like proteins represent the active regulator species.
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The Synod's declarations prevailed de jure but not de facto in the Roman Catholic Church down to the Reformation era.
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In this way, of course, money only mirrors other aspects of our political moment, where the prevailing mood generally seems to swing from one kind of antiestablishment ethos to another.
NYT > Home Page
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The prevailing winds and currents forced all ships returning to Europe or the Americas from the Ivory and Gold Coasts to pass eastward toward the Slave Coast and close to the shores of Efik lands.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
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Luckily sanity prevailed with the manager intervening and the test went on.
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The causes prevailed after decades of struggle and after assembling a very broad coalition.
Times, Sunday Times
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Overall, different people, as members of many different groups, prevail on particular issues.
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We, or they, might well prevail before All Hallows.
War for the Oaks
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And when this fierce way prevails, it masters and subdues all other ways and works; for it wills to be wayless, that is, without manner.
The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
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Catharina having thus prevailed with her Mother, her bed made in the Garden Gallerie, and secret intelligence given to Ricciardo, for preparing his meanes of accesse to her window; old provident Lizio lockes the doore to bed-ward, and gives her liberty to come forth in the morning, for his owne lodging was neere to the same Gallery.
The Decameron
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I am sure that common sense will prevail in the end.
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The prevailing mood of public opinion remained hostile.
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Camilla again denied the charge, and strove to prevail with her to undeceive the Baronet from any false expectations.
Camilla
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This is because the behaviour of a rational monopolist will be to market the goods at a price which is higher than that prevailing under ordinary competitive conditions.
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After prevailing in Minnesota, Republicans were assured of at least 51 Senate seats.
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The results may help to reconstruct the orogenic nappe structure that prevailed in the area before the region was reworked by extensional tectonics.
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If that MP can be prevailed upon to contact a minister of state and request a reply, the response will be referred to and drafted by the relevant civil servants.
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Government adhered to the prevailing orthodoxy that balanced budgets were necessary and desirable and that deficit financing was neither.
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These communications warrant the President in believing that the so-called Fenian expedition is now entirely, at an end, and that order and tranquility may be expected to prevail henceforth on that border.
Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870
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Armed with trumpets and congas, they keep things up-tempo, but this is an exception to the rule, and melancholy prevails.
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Liberals were seen as weak-kneed wimps, unwilling to use force internationally and preoccupied with social welfare internally; local patriotisms prevailed everywhere.
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Under its lordly bewitchery, Erastianism prevails in the Established Churches of the kingdom.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
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Whose version of history should prevail at Auschwitz?
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It is the antithesis of the still-prevailing Greek worldview which adulates logic and the laws of nature as absolute.
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= Probably Sirius, the Dog Star, under whose ascendency, according to ancient beliefs, epidemic diseases prevailed.
Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems
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So we can easily prove that we are a little bit short and hopefully common sense will prevail.
Times, Sunday Times
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Compare Aletta's marriage to the family's prevailing endogamous practices.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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No democratic Government or society can allow such people to prevail.
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Britain stood for political ideals that must prevail if western civilization were not to break down.
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I am sure that common sense will prevail in the end.
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After watching the Pies prevail on Saturday night with considerable discomfort and going into this match after two comprehensive canings, one couldn't help but fear that a new Dark Age was about to descend upon the football world.
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During the time when these styles of Gothic architecture prevailed that are now called the Decorated and the Perpendicular, the roof, [14] the columns, the stained glass windows, the seats, altar, tombs, and even the flooring, were filled with emblasonment.
A Short Account of King's College Chapel
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Faith that justice would prevail impelled us forward.
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I can recall happy evenings sitting round cheery fires, making our own entertainment, and a wonderful spirit of friendliness and fellowship prevailing.
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During a ride to a natural tank amongst these rocky elevations, I passed from the alluvium to the sandstone, and at once met with all the prevailing plants of the granite, gneiss, limestone and hornstone rocks previously examined, and which I have enumerated too often to require recapitulation; a convincing proof that the mechanical properties and not the chemical constitution of the rocks regulate the distribution of these plants.
Himalayan Journals — Complete
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Its left panel frames a standing portrait of Serena, her hair arranged in a thick roll around her head, her person adorned in the high-necked voluminous tunic layered over a tighter-fitting underdress that had become the prevailing fashion for women of late antiquity.
Caesars’ Wives
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But Clinton would sign the Kennedy-Kassebaum version, which is thus likely to prevail in the end.
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The bernicle, or brent goose, is interesting from the curious superstition which formerly prevailed respecting it, as it was supposed to have sprung from the shell called the barnacle or lepas, which adheres to the bottoms of ships, and which has a fringe of cirri projecting from between its valves bearing some faint resemblance to the feathers of a bird.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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And because of the natural bonds of familial affection that prevail.
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And despite of North Korea's repeated kind of abrogation of its commitments, China has again and again appealed for calm and reason to prevail.
CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2009
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We must not believe that all opinion is ideology, that reason is only power, that there is no truth to prevail.
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If we seek transcendence without honouring immanence, we naturally take flight from materiality except when matter conforms to some notion of aesthetic appropriateness, which is nothing other than prevailing social convention.
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Gold and silver vessels served in effect as large denomination banknotes, and weighed round figures in terms of the prevailing currency standards.
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Even if not everyone means well, leaders of goodwill can organize their relations so that goodwill prevails.
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Because distinctive provincialism of belemnites prevailed until the Barremian-Aptian, other factors such as temperature may have also played an important role.
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Fortunately, reason prevailed, the feudal overlords decamped, and no-one (apart from an unfortunate Indonesian border policeman) was killed.
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I hope that after the smoke clears, level heads will prevail, and they will do what they know in their hearts is the right thing. cindy
Angry Clinton supporters tell party leaders: 'Let's go McCain!'
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Can't l prevail on you to have a little more rice?
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To ensnare or prevail over with trickery.
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The condition in the interior regions of Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and many other States is worse than that which prevailed five decades back in Kerala.
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An atmosphere of mutual understanding, and coordination between both types of resistance should prevail.
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Having fully apprehended the dangers inherent in prevailing models of privacy, one may then begin to articulate an alternative vision of privacy.
'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.
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Once the fleet had cleared Cyprus well to the west and out of sight of the island, they heaved into the prevailing southerlies and raced to the coast of Africa.
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He has a calmness that will prevail in the dressing room when things are not going well.
Times, Sunday Times
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The York ranks prevailed at home, but were unable to match that supremacy away at Leicester for the overall loss.
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Vision, as Frye suggests, effects a recognition of the power that prevails over charms.
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When muscles are loosened and the circulation is good, good health will prevail and there will inevitably be less chance of any disfunction.
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Blest from above, human nature's wickedness had from below too frequently besulphured and suffumigated him for his memory to be dim; and though he was ever ready to own himself an example that heaven prevaileth, he could cite instances of scandal-mongering shop-women dismissed and working him mischief in the town, which pointed to him in person for a proof that the Powers of
Complete Short Works of George Meredith
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the prevailing wind is from the southwest
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Rod Millman's juvenile failed by just a head and would surely have prevailed had she not drifted off the rails and allowed the winner to come up her inside.
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However, rapid return to the nest would seem irrelevant for the majority of foraging time when nearly continuous flows of outgoing and returning traffic prevail.
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The poet's voiceneed not merely be the record of man , it can be one of the props , the pillars to help him endure andprevail.
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At least this time justice has prevailed.
The Sun
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However, in some localities, such as below the water table and in waterlogged soils, reducing conditions can prevail.
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A few players from each side got involved in a fracas, but thankfully common sense prevailed.
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He prevailed upon her to visit his parents
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Justice can not prevail under a veil of secrecy or behind doors that do not open.
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But nimbyism cannot always prevail over the legitimate pleas of striving families for homes they can afford.
Times, Sunday Times
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The results include anecdotal but compelling evidence that officers are already becoming less inclined to take the risks needed to prevail in battle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Steve Trewhella There were a number of non-native, pelagic marine visitors to our coast during the prevailing autumn winds.
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It appears that he slew also a notable dun cow, of a kind of mastodon breed, which prevailed in those early days, which was making great havoc in the neighborhood.
Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1
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That was quite a concession, given that they wanted the intent of the erroneous scrivener to prevail in interpretation.
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These Communist-era cadres had been brought into the new agency under the prevailing rules of verification.
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Faith that justice would prevail impelled us forward.
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Wind conditions, the year leading wind direction, prevailing southeasterly winds in summer, winter prevailing northwest wind.
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Peele's "Arraignment of Paris, a Pastorall" is a court drama in the style of Lilly, intended to flatter the Queen, "poor in action but all the richer in gallant phrases, provided with songs, one in Italian, and with all kinds of love scenes between shepherds and shepherdesses, nymphs and terrestrial gods"; the diction is interesting, because it shows revolt from the prevailing "euphuism," and therefore Peele must be given the praise of first opposing Lilly's affected style.
The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
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We must ensure that the sector continues to expand, sustainably, to provide more people with food and income, especially in areas like sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, where hunger and poverty prevail.
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But here his own hubris, his own kind of arrogance, in how to handle this matter prevailed.
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Playboy model Kiana Tom challenged him to a front double-biceps contest - Hayden prevailed.
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That lower living standard will be brought about either by lower average money wages than would otherwise prevail or by higher average living costs, or by a combination of both.
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Presumably such marked fluctuations are connected with the prevailing weather conditions.
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Lecturing to the packed Images Theatre and in a subsequent on-stage interview with the Peak, he showed himself to be a skilled orator as he challenged prevailing ideology.
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And to complicate matters yet further, for the few who wished to simplify them, the custom of "borough-English" prevailed, and governed the descent of dilapidations, making nice niceties for clever men of law.
Erema — My Father's Sin
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Or it might have you believing the quartet roared into town like Marlon Brando and his biker gang from The Wild One, rebelling against the prevailing fashions for abstraction and avant-garde.
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Villages will always win over towns because the community spirit prevails more with lesser areas of population.
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It is, if you like, the humanitarian consequences of this legal vacuum that currently prevails there.
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As expected, the 240-159 vote fell far short of the two-thirds majority needed to prevail.
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Riesman made the suburbs the prime locale of those who sacrificed their “inner-directed” opportunities in order to be “other-directed” by the prevailing manners and mores of their community.
Suburbs of Our Discontent
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But he and his wife found something even more elusive: a palpable sense of the rakish adventurousness that prevailed between the world wars.
The World on the Rocks
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The eastern part of England, where the invaders were firmly established, came to be called the Danelaw, because here the Danish, and not the Anglo-Saxon, law prevailed.
Early European History
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Stoicism indeed seems to fall back into the materialism that I prevailed before Plato and Aristotle; but the ethical dualism which dominated the mood of the Stoic philosophers, did not in the long run tolerate the materialistic physics; it sought and found help in the metaphysical dualism of the Platonists, and at the same time reconciled itself to the popular religion by means of allegorism, that is, it formed a new theology.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
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The prevailing culture is that you are not allowed to make a judgement.
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Here our friend _Anamnesis_ seemed fatigued, as if he thought he had spun a sufficiently _long yarn_ on the subject; so we prevailed on him to prosecute the walk, as evening was beginning to close in -- not, indeed, without apprehension that he would make a stand at several other interesting plants on which it might suit him to prelect!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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I hope this book is not yet another restatement of the prevailing wisdom.
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The interviewer, reflecting the prevailing attitudes of the time, seemed mystified.
Times, Sunday Times
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To suppose that the influence of a minority of party activists will not in the end prevail is to delude oneself.
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After the expulsion of the master, the Twentieth School fell upon evil days, for the trustees decided that it would be better to try "gurl" teachers, as Hughie contemptuously called them; and this policy prevailed for two or three years, with the result that the big boys left the school, and with their departure the old heroic age passed away, to be succeeded by an age soft, law-abiding, and distinctly commercial.
Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry
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While he admitted to contemplating suicide, he resolved to prevail over adversity.
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Its commitment to open proselytizing and open dissemination of ideas through the printed word was conceivable only in the relatively liberal atmosphere that prevailed in the early days of the July Monarchy.
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The prevailing mood of public opinion remained hostile.
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Tip: module power tube feet with material, defined if with product label labelling shall prevail.
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With calls for Senator Clinton to abandon what is now seen as little more than a schismatic adventure that risks a fracture along a racial fault-line dividing the Democratic Party just as the Whig Party was fractured by race, some have deduced that the probable motive driving the sinking campaign deeper into the mire is a misplaced belief some attribute to James Carville that they can torpedo Obama's presidential ambitions; survive the disaster of his loss to McCain and prevail as owners of the Democratic Party through the agency of the now discredited Democratic Leadership Council.
Michael Carmichael: The Political Titanic
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Lascivious desire, and no religious devotion, made him draw neere her, and whether under shrift (the onely cloake to compasse carnal affections) or some other as close conference to as pernitious and vile a purpose, I know not: but so farre he prevailed upon her frailety, and such a bargaine passed betweene them, that from the Church, he wonne her to his Chamber, before any person could perceive it.
The Decameron
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Unpleasant weather conditions prevailed and the players slithering on the greasy surface was a common occurrence.
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Right now, with an asking price of $60.90, a bettor would risk $60.90 to win $100 if a Democrat wins the 2012 presidential election and lose it all if a Republican were to prevail.
Steve Schohn: Shorting the Hype of a Candidate with Momentum
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The end of the parliamentary process is an appropriate time to address these criticisms head-on and to dispel some of the prevailing myths.
A New Constitution for Hungary
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A transaction in our fire company gave me some insight into their prevailing sentiments.
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What we are pleased to call "prevailing business sentiment" is a complex hydra-headed beast.
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The venomous exchanges between deputies from the two republics in the Kremlin yesterday offered little hope that reason would prevail.
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On a few occasions I was present when friends gathered at his flat, discussing literature, the politics that mired Hungary in the war and the postwar hopes of those who were against the prevailing order.
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The Challenge is a prestigious yacht race, westerly circumnavigating the world against the prevailing winds and tides.
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If the striking rail unions prevail, they will be encouraged in opposing other measures that reduce costs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their will must not prevail.
The Sun
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Because of the prevailing south-westerlies in the exposed Baie de Seine, we stayed in sheltered waters nearer shore until ready to dive.
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Reid could've gotten a little diriter with his comment, but decency prevailed.
GOP head demands apology for slavery remark
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The wall gives some protection from the prevailing wind.
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Cuba will make every effort to preserve the atmosphere of détente and mutual respect that has prevailed in that area in the past few years.
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With these they were something perswaded, and prevailed upon by the same person, to permit him to carry away all that were left undefaced, by which means, the writings the church hath now came to be preserved.
The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral
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A quiet prayerful atmosphere always prevails at Crohill Mass Rock, which stands in a small sheltered field on the top of Crohill in the townland of Crobane.
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The pieces share the traits typical of their genre in the later 15th century: a treble-dominated texture, probably intended for texted performance of the top voice and solmized or instrumental performance of the lower voices; a contrapuntal structure built around a duet of discantus and tenor with an added contratenor; a break roughly halfway through corresponding to the division in the poetic form; and a prevailing line-for-line agreement of music and refrain text.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Both stuck two fingers up to the prevailing fashions.
Times, Sunday Times
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In captivity the Syrian Hamster's solitary instinct prevails and once mature it will not normally accept the company of another hamster.
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So, what we end up at is a determina that Hamlet should "throw to earth/This unprevailing woe," that he should abjure his own grief.
Modality and Hamlet
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Inasmuch as the virtual beauty of "harmony" and "proportion" said to prevail between the intellect's discrete faculties is to prove vocal, audible, and lasting, the reflexive operation of critical writing is at least one way of producing that outcome.
The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant,
