Sofitel's weaknesses are mostly a result of prevailing wisdom on how new buildings should relate to old ones.
Yet there has not been a voice that could systematically articulate the prevailing wisdom – a gap that has been filled by Danny Dorling.
According to prevailing wisdom, a peer is a backbone service provider that agrees to exchange roughly equivalent amounts of data with another provider without requiring that money change hands.
In a leap of imagination from prevailing wisdom, Correa envisaged a large, independent New Bombay, not a satellite town.
The people I met in Charleston were not sinister conspiracy mongers; they were simply trying to fathom a narrative characterized by few facts, a lot of fear, and a strong sense of prevailing wisdom.
Oil at $50 was a distant prospect, and the prevailing wisdom was that a run-up of that extent would do serious economic damage.
It was a big bet on young talent, and at a time when the prevailing wisdom was, as one respected television commentator put it, "You can't win anything with kids". Ferguson approached the process systematically.
Its growth was slow but solid, as Abell rejected the prevailing wisdom that a newspaper should be a mouthpiece for a political party and held instead to an independent political line.
The dramatic events offer a counterpoint to the prevailing wisdom about the nascent Iraqi security forces -- the key to the Bush administration's strategy to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.
Brushing your hair 100 times a night was the prevailing wisdom of the day.
He announced he would drop the lawsuit, saying in a prepared statement, "The prevailing wisdom of many in the Seattle community and the advice of key members of the BCOS is that Seattle's best chance for a professional basketball franchise is to end this litigation and allow the City, State Legislature and other parties to begin the necessary fence mending with the NBA".
