It did not remain simply a term for the idolatry prevailing outside Islām but came to be used as the opposite of tawhid (the oneness of God) and became synonymous with any belief or practice rejected by a particular sect.
The company reported a pretax profit of 10.6 million for the first six months of 2010, just two-fifths of what it was for the period a year earlier, citing "the challenging market conditions prevailing outside Brazil" as well as a revenue drop resulting after the completion of a project in Australia.
He added, "I suspect Lewis would be the first to agree that it is outside the prevailing political consensus".
It also enabled her to operate outside the prevailing fashions of the music scene, her creations not reliant upon obvious musical precedents, but ranging freely across the sonic landscape.
For virtually her entire career, Bush has operated outside the prevailing trends and transient fashions of the music scene; in her music could be discerned few, if any, obvious musical precedents, the true imprimatur of the unique artist.
On a purely narrative level, too, it's not easy to tell what keeps Claire's boyfriend Mark Adrian Bowerr), a performance poet who exists outside the prevailing querulousness, engaged with such a family dynamic.
Although his allegiances lay with Neoclassical assumptions about poetic form and language, his capacity for improvisatory responsiveness to practice that lay outside the prevailing decorums should not be underrated.
Samples were incubated for 48 h outside under prevailing light and temperature conditions (Jyväskylä, Finland, September 2014).
Joan had been creating her own climate, outside of the prevailing aesthetic winds.
Outside Germany the prevailing view is that Angela Merkel, chancellor since 2005 and probably until 2017 or beyond, runs her country as if she were an American or French president.
