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• v  be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
• v  be valid, applicable, or true
• v  continue to exist
• v  prove superior
• v  use persuasion successfully
• s  most frequent or common
  prevailing winds

• See Also Tech PTI Archive: By WILSON ROTHMAN Last week I reviewed a nice GPS navigator for Palm OS PDAs, and in the prevailing spirit of congenial bipartisanship, I wanted to .
• Nightline's Ted Koppel--as close to an official augur as American culture has--captured the prevailing spirit when he acknowledged last week, a tad reluctantly, that Farrakhan "may .
• Snchez documents the prevailing sense of "endophobia" in Cuba fear of what will happen after Castro's reign ends as well as the discontent of young Cubans eager for change.

• predominate
• dominate
• rule
• reign
• prevail
• hold
• obtain
• persist
• die hard
• run
• endure
• triumph
• prevalent
• predominant
• dominant
• rife

News & Articles

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• Keith Idec on boxing: Juan Manuel Lopez says he shouldn't be counted out in bout against Mikey Garcia
  The prevailing feeling is Lopez’s lone losses to Orlando Salido ruined him, but the charismatic southpaw wholeheartedly disagreed as he prepared for his fight against Garcia (31-0, 26 KOs) on Saturday night at American Airlines Center in Dallas (10:45 p.m., HBO).
  June 14, 2013 - The Record
• Palatine, Dist. 15 officials speak out against prevailing wage
  They can't do much, if anything, about it, but officials in both Palatine and Palatine Township Elementary District 15 this week made their position known toward the prevailing wage. Illinois statute requires all government units under state jurisdiction to hire contractors for public works projects that pay at least a minimum of the Cook County or Lake County prevailing wage rates for public ...
  June 13, 2013 - Daily Herald
• Then There's This: White Lodging's Steal of a Deal: City to developer: What part of 'must pay prevailing wage' do you ...
  What part of 'prevailing wage ordinance ' do you not understand?
  June 13, 2013 - The Austin Chronicle

Quotes

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• Samuel Alito in Los Angeles Times
  This term the court endorsed what the dissenters called "a very different principle: no freedom for expression that offends prevailing standards of political correctness in our country's institutions of higher learning."
• Jimmy Carter in The Associated Press
  Byrd was skilled "in using arcane Senate rules to achieve his goals, and was proud of his ability to count votes and forge prevailing coalitions," Carter said in a statement.
• Margaret Chan in Arab News
  The amount of oil moving into Mississippi waters has greatly increased in the last several days, and the prevailing winds that cause the oil and its residue to move in our direction are predicted to continue, at least until the middle of the... Haley Barbour http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haley_Barbour&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHFFjpsw2NMVwx2ZPUOVs0PfP9I0w MiamiHerald.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/27/1704032/mississippi-officials-slam-coast.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEgQkDylLfo_RiPlypQOdy4m-p1lg Jun 27, 2010 77351 104273 prevalence Although the pandemic appears to have moderate severity in comparatively well-off countries, it is prudent to anticipate a bleaker picture as the virus spreads to areas with limited resources, poor health care, and a high prevalence of underlying...