To take her case, an environmental attorney needed tests and physical exams, costing thousands, to establish causality, with no guarantee of ever prevailing in court.
The steep southern slopes of the mountain, moistened by the ever prevailing trades, are extensively if sometimes thinly covered with sedges, spurges, ferns and grasses, cedars and guava, not to mention some gorse, which was eventually introduced about 100 years after Forster first suggested the idea.
More than ever, the prevailing wisdom of selecting students from the top of their classes, with the best scholastic grades and highest standardized test scores, is being challenged.
Ever since Coleridge, the prevailing view has been that the poet not only transcended his age but also wrote, in Coleridge's words 'exactly as if of another planet'.
Curiously, though, nobody had ever shown that the prevailing theory of gravity, Einstein's theory of general relativity, actually predicts that a black hole can be made this way.
Despite the limited evidence, such is the hold of the fluid bolus resuscitation paradigm on the mind of critical care physicians that no one has ever considered challenging this prevailing dogma.
Like "Borat," "Brüno Mr. Baron Cohenen's new vehicle, also directed by Larry Charles) offers both succor and sucker bait for liberal-minded viewers who may feel harassed and hemmed in by prevailing and ever-shifting cultural sensitivities.
For 200 years now, ever since the Industrial Revolution, the prevailing mantra in corporate life has been "more, bigger, faster".
Despite new laws, few women will ever report the event because of the prevailing social norms that blame victims for their own assault.
Not trying is the prevailing reason most never have their loans ever forgiven.
It remains an ever-present topic wherever groups of Nigerians discuss the prevailing economic and social situation - depending, of course, on the region of the country where the groups gather.
