But this is one of the many areas of continental European finance where Anglo-Saxon principles of return on capital and shareholder value may increasingly prevail.
In markets like consumer electronics, where Amazon increasingly prevails, products like HDTVs from different companies are usually made by the same Asian factories, with little technical difference between brands.
Still, analysts say, the broader political will to strengthen the European Union as well as the currency bloc remains strong and is increasingly likely to prevail.
Muslims say the attitudes which prevailed in early 20th century European history and gave rise to the Holocaust are similar in nature to the climate of intimidation and violence Muslim communities must increasingly endure in contemporary Europe.
As Israelis struggled to absorb Mr. Barak's moves, two views prevailed, reflecting the increasingly sharp divide among Israelis over Mr. Barak.
As it became increasingly apparent that the no vote had prevailed, thousands took to the streets, packing into Syntagma Square, the plaza in front of the Greek parliament, under a sea of flags to celebrate the result.
A great many food activists seem both bewildered by the new capitalist India in which they find themselves and increasingly nostalgic for the all-controlling state that prevailed before the 1980s.
Subsequently, however, as his disciples refined his thought into a scholastic doctrine, subjective cultivation prevailed over objective inquiry, which was increasingly redirected into the narrow limits of reading and interpersonal conduct.
Although they prevailed initially, the Islamists too became increasingly frustrated when by the mid-1990s many hardline Pakistani groups - such as Harkatul Mujahideen, Al-Badr, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad - joined the fray.
Seemingly modern affluent lifestyles are placing us increasingly in static, artificial, microenvironments very different from the conditions prevailed for most part of our evolution and shaped our organisms.
