According to the SEC, "The single most important criterion is that the rating agency is widely accepted in the U.S. as an issuer of credible and reliable ratings by the predominant users of securities ratings".
Likewise on the issue of security, the predominant mood among practically all Palestinians is to pull back from terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.
Brownhilder (2014), for instance, showed that in Cameroon, push factors such as unemployment, poverty and job security were predominant determinates of students' engagement in various forms of entrepreneurship.
"Just as the ruling class in a community prays for domestic peace, which guarantees its own security and predominance, … so international peace becomes a special vested interest of predominant powers" (76).
Our interviews with physicians revealed that developing a sense of security is one of the predominant facets and preoccupations shaping their professional experience and practice.
According to an earlier study by PwC, SaaS is the predominant model in this context, with communication, collaboration, and security applications being particularly popular [31].
The paper shows how predominant framings of 'food sovereignty'foodood self-sufficiency' and 'food security' support scalar strategies that empower particular actors and agendas.
But just one week later a community bordering Fenix known as Lot 8 Chacpayla, who are part of the predominant Maya Q'eqchi' group in the region, say there were invaded by private security forces working for the firm which runs the mine, Compañía Guatemalteca de Níquel, now a subsidiary of the Cyprus-based Solway Investment Group.
"Syria has become really the predominant jihadist battlefield in the world," Matthew G. Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, told a security conference in Aspen, Colo., this month.
This puzzled me, given that the predominant criticism at the time had been that Obama was overly aggressive in prosecuting national security leaks to journalists, so I asked for clarification.
