Sentence examples for had prevailed for from inspiring English sources

This was a strong contrast to traditions that had prevailed for many centuries.

The attack on Monday was in the village of Tuba-Zangariya, in Galilee, where calm had prevailed for years.

"The crisis exposed deficiencies in the financial sector's business model that had prevailed for several decades," the settlements bank said.

In fact, by now the alien and weird had prevailed for so many years that they had almost become the known and familiar.

The central pillar of Jim Crow was destroyed, and with it the regime of legal segregation that had prevailed for seventy years.

In this stimulating history, Appleby insists that, far from being inevitable, the advent of capitalism was "a startling departure from the norms that had prevailed for four thousand years," and required a radical reconception of human nature.

Our democratic political system has prevailed for nearly three decades and has now reached maturity.

JULIE HARRIS is a theater star who has prevailed for more than 50 years.

It is a reminder of a reductive and fearful Western view of Africa that has prevailed for too long.

The single-impact scenario has prevailed for so long because it gracefully accounts for several critical facts.

There is no doubt that the system that has prevailed for the last decade and a half had its faults.