For English names we follow prevailing usage, but sometimes adopt novel names to avoid ambiguity.
Winston Churchill, chancellor of the Exchequer in 1925, decided to follow prevailing financial opinion and adopt the prewar parity (i.e., to define a pound sterling once again as equal to 123.274 grains of gold 11/12 fine).
744, 475 N.W.2d 346 (1991), we adopted the prevailing federal rule that a pretrial detainee's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment are protected to the same extent as the rights guaranteed convicted prisoners under the Eighth Amendment.
At the time the Constitution was adopted, the prevailing view was that human life did not exist until quickening (when the mother first feels movement), which typically occurs at around eighteen weeks, or roughly halfway through a pregnancy.
This hinges on an arcane debate about whether the Senate is a "continuing body", always working under the same rules, or an intermittent assembly which is simply assumed to have adopted the rules prevailing in the previous Congress unless someone objects.
The moment we begin to learn anything from the people around us and the social institutions of which we become part, our minds and the various world views we adopt, inevitably reflect prevailing cultural norms.
In other words, builders have room in their budgets to increase wages and benefits, to adopt the prevailing wage.
Studies have further shown that when Asians emigrate to Western nations such as the United States and adopt the prevailing diet, their disease rates change.
If chromosome position governs expression (and ultimately, the evolutionary fate), then genes should adopt the prevailing expression patterns of their new neighbors, even despite local cis-acting regulatory elements.
Possible advantageous elements of two-person technique should be sought and considered adopted in the prevailing training of one-person technique.
A cluster analysis was adopted to identify the prevailing solar climates using the monthly average daily clearness index, Kt, as climatic variable.
