Sentence examples for adding to the prevailing from inspiring English sources

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".

7am profit warnings from Carpetright and Halfords added to the prevailing retail gloom, which is starting to take other stocks down too.

When average Americans saw the Speaker of the House and the President of the United States behaving like nursery school children unable to get along, it only added to the prevailing cynicism.

Run-of-the-mill complaints about inadequate health services only add to the prevailing disenchantment.The verdict in the Breivik trial, which is due on August 24th, will hardly improve the government's popularity.

It was, of course, intended as an awful warning to MPs of the inevitable consequences of their behaviour, but the effect was only to add to the prevailing hysteria.In this section Where did it all go wrong?

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.

Final spreads add to the prevailing sense of fun with games that employ mathematical and logical skills.

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.

Figures from the European Central Bank showing Greek bank deposits are at their lowest in more than a decade only added to the prevailing gloom.

If Wilder's reaction was not a case of mind games and management of expectations, it was madness that adds to the fans' prevailing mystification.

Worldwide, the incidence of oral tongue cancer is on the rise, adding to the existing burden due to prevailing low survival and high recurrence rates.