"It kind of gives you status," he said, adding that the prevailing wisdom is, "If he's a good player, he must be a good caddie".
Writing in the Daily Telegraph in May, Johnson said he had "just fought a campaign in which I sometimes felt that my chief opponent was the local BBC news" adding that "the prevailing view of Beeb newsrooms is, with honourable exceptions, statist, corporatist, defeatist, anti-business, Europhile and, above all, overwhelmingly biased to the left".
Conversely, Abbas is politically weak; his public support is limited and he is challenged by Hamas, which inhibits him from taking any step that would add to the prevailing perception of his weakness.
For once, Greeks are in accord with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who, adding to the prevailing pessimism, emphasised in her new year address that the worst crisis to ravage Europe since the second world war "is far from over".
The defendants excessively marked up the prices of construction materials, falsified and forged business records, failed to pay prevailing wages, laundered money and evaded taxes, among other crimes, said Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, adding that the investigation is continuing.
I'd add that one of the prevailing economic policy sins of our time has been allowing hypothetical risks, like the fiscal crisis that never came, to trump concerns over economic damage happening in the here and now.
All of the various influences, added together, overcame the prevailing concern for many athletes at black colleges.
That adds to the prevailing notion that many of the ingredients for the origin of life showered down on the early Earth when asteroids (interplanetary rocks orbiting the inner solar system) and comets (dirty ice balls that generally congregate in the outer solar system beyond Neptune) made impact with the planet.
"Yes I also understand it," he adds, suggesting that the prevailing culture is, at least, not always completely idiotic.
Referring to the prevailing second-generation mobile standard, the Global System for Mobile Communications, which now runs 80 percent of all mobile phones in the world, he added, "That is why GSM was successful.
That is the prevailing guideline where trades are concerned.
