Sentence examples for by prevailing from inspiring English sources

Then we're off on a conversation about how pubic hair is shaped by prevailing patriarchal norms.

But one controversy that has tarnished the seafarer's reputation persists, periodically fanned by prevailing political winds.

Carried north by prevailing winds, these pollutants do not evaporate in the Arctic cold.

In times past, the public image of primates was largely dictated by prevailing religious beliefs.

Social work should be defined by the profession and not by prevailing governmental and Whitehall policy directions.

He was put off literature by the "new novel" and by prevailing literary ideas, such as structuralism.

Capitalism does function on top of, and one way or another is moulded by, prevailing popular opinion.

Fallout was swept away by prevailing winds and returned through precipitation, some of it falling on farms and dairies.

There are still flickers of audience involvement in concerts, but so brainwashed are we by prevailing decorum that they make us nervous.

After a stellar first decade Mr. Woodthorpe found his career on the downslide, tempered by prevailing theatrical tastes as well as by his infamous outspokenness.

What about all those films that operated under a censorship code or were bound by prevailing moral standards to be less explicit?