Mr. Wright considers the monopoly of small farms by the great landholders, as the principal cause of the prevailing pauperism in England, by having thrown too great a mass of the population into the towns.
Sailors were lounging about the bar-rooms in large numbers, and the sale of cheap liquors appeared to be the one prevailing business of Suez.
There must be a prevailing refinement of taste in this island city, otherwise the abundance of flowers offered on the Strada Reale would not find purchasers.
It is Moorish from one end to the other; the very atmosphere and prevailing odors announce it.
It is well to mention in this connection that the prevailing religions of Japan are Shinto and Buddhism, each, however, being sub-divided into many sects.
The hills spring from the very water's edge, and the pine is the prevailing tree; the principal difference being an inclination here to more tropical verdure than in the localities referred to.
Had he been an impostor, it was his business to have flattered the prevailing hopes, because these hopes were to be the instruments of his attraction and success.
The evangelist's noticing theprevailing misconstruction of a discourse, (John xxi.
In both, the prevailing mythology was destitute of any proper evidence: or rather, in both, the origin of the tradition is run up into ages long anterior to the existence of credible history, or of written language.
This "theory of male scatulation" found itself at once in keen opposition to the prevailing "female" theory.
There were many reasons for the prevailing horror of such studies.
In this way it has brought about almost a revolution in the prevailing views.
Shaw's eloquence not prevailing upon the citizens, he determined to see what effect his own reasoning would have on them.
Brander Matthews has an article on the prevailing indifference in regard to the proper use of words.
His garments are so far from the prevailing style that they attract attention and invite comment.
He may be able to tell you that she wore a pink waist, or that the prevailing color of her costume was blue, but there his knowledge of the subject ends.
And even under the urgent circumstances prevailing in the modern industrial communities, the highest and most reputable universities show an extreme reluctance in making the move.
This view, but commonly expressed even more chastely, is the prevailing view of the woman's status, not only among the common run of the men of civilized communities, but among the women as well.
Habits of industry and thrift, therefore, are not uniformly furthered by a prevailing pecuniary emulation.
But as a descriptive term to characterise the prevailing methods of industry, as well as to indicate the trend of industrial development at this point in economic evolution, the term "quasi-peaceable" seems preferable.
Under the circumstances prevailing at any given time this class is in a privileged position, and any departure from the existing order may be expected to work to the detriment of the class rather than the reverse.
The nearness of the sea made itself already felt; there was a briny taste in the damp atmosphere, and the trees all turned their branches away in the same direction against the onslaught of the prevailing winds.
Here and there sparse, stunted trees with fringed gaunt arms bending to prevailing winds proclaimed the neighbourhood of the sea.
But it has not hitherto been theprevailing fault of British antiquaries to assign too remote an era to the introduction of the funeral pile.
These objects of Northern antiquity, however, form a class by themselves, and bear no analogy to the prevailing types of the last Pagan period, either in the Scandinavian countries or in Britain.
The wax model found in the supposed tomb of Bishop Tulloch at Orkney, indicates the same conformity to the prevailingfashions of the age.
The most prevailing characteristics are well represented in the example figured above, from one of the beautiful series of St. Michael's, Linlithgow.
But the cists lay irregularly in various directions, giving no indication of any chosen mode or prevailing custom.
The order met with a less hearty and thorough-going execution than might have been anticipated from the spirit prevailing at a period when the whole course of public events had tended to inflame men's minds to the uttermost.
But it was no doubt with a view to receive into a structure worthy of so sacred a depository the relics of the sainted queen that the choir was remodelled according to the prevailing First-pointed style of the thirteenth century.
Anglo-Norman and Scottish Romanesque architecture, and indeed predominated in the prevailing style of ornament for a time throughout Europe.
The prevailing form of initial exhibits very delicate white tracery on a black ground.
In contrast to theprevailing anthropomorphism of the time, the First Person of the Trinity is represented by a 'loco tondo et vacuo,' a blank circle, with a halo of angels round it.
They help the mind in its effort to set itself apart to unworldly pursuits; they are indications of separateness from the prevailing fashions and frivolities.
Such was the general calm prevailing that officers in the front line were accustomed to sleep in their pyjamas.
The four days had cost them 11 killed and 31 wounded, which might well have been increased but for the steady discipline prevailing among all ranks.
For roasting, it should hang as long as it will keep, the hind quarter especially, but not so long as to taint; for whatever may be authorised by the prevailing fashion, putrid juices certainly ought not to be taken into the stomach.
A prevailing error in the diet of this country is a too great use of animal food.
The social order takes its form through the class struggle, and the character of the class struggle at any given phase of the unfolding development of society is determined by "the prevailing mode of economic production and exchange.
Tete Jaune Pass and Tete Jaune Cache are said to commemorate the personality of a veteran Indian trader or trapper whose yellow hair made him conspicuous in a country where black was the prevailing hue.
His appointment was one characteristic of the prevailingpolicy of Amalickiah and of his successor, Ammoron.
Some of these lands appear to have been relatively small, more resembling a county, or possibly a township, than any other division at present prevailing in this country.
Like every one else, she was not merely a prevailing mood, as people are apt to be in books, but was an irregularly spheroidal character, with surfaces that caught the different lights of circumstance and reflected them.
From his experience of himself he accounted for a prevailing literary quality in it; he decided it to be from Lindau's reading and feeling rather than his reflection.
Lindau could probably find as cheap a lodging in some decenter part of the town; and, in fact, there was some amelioration of the prevailing squalor in the quieter street which he turned into from Mott.
There were certain signs, certain facades, certain audacities of the prevailing hideousness that always amused him in that uproar to the eye which the strident forms and colors made.
They are merely dressed in the prevailing fashion.
That there are prevailing fashions, local-colour variations, and a few more or less permanent models is noticeable to such a degree that an observer might conclude motley to be the only wear.
At the same time, the arrangement absolutely avoids any grade crossing whatever, and without such an arrangement of tracks the road could not be operated with trains run so closely together as under the prevailing system.
The armored cruiser was the particular development of the antagonistic views prevailing among naval architects.
Perhaps it is the opinion of the prevailing party in Boston.
In this town, I cannot but think the prevailing influence is still a Tory influence.
The people are of mixed Mo-so and Tibetan race, and the prevailing religion is Lamaism.
Commerce and navigation were mainly directed towards the Thracian coast and the Black sea; the spirit of trade, however, was never the prevailing one.
But the spirit of enterprise then prevailing was not to be easily quashed, and only a few months after the failure of poor Gilbert's enterprise, we find Sir Walter Raleigh in the field.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prevailing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
