But the synchronous approach predominated, largely because it is easier to design chips in which things happen only when the clock ticks.
That may partly be due to the persistence of the go-go culture that predominated before the financial crisis.
They were "not fit for further studies and they are not employable".The defects in both Britain's and Hong Kong's education systems were disguised by the fact that most people were employed in the low-skill, mass-manufacturing sector that predominated in both countries.
This year democracy has received a particular boost in Paraguay, a country where authoritarian attitudes previously predominated.
One! One! Syrians are one!" Most Syrians are practising Muslims, but the young people who have predominated in the crowds of protesters are connected to their compatriots more by the internet than by religion".Fears of sectarian strife are massively overblown," says Rime Allaf, an expert on Syria at Chatham House, a foreign-policy think-tank in London.
A "blue" pro-disengagement campaign has fizzled miserably; orange ribbons outnumber blue on Israel's cars by at least ten to one.And while there were protesters of all ages, the young predominated.
The 1987 coup followed the election of a coalition government in which an Indian party predominated, although it did not take the prime minister's job.It was not a spectacular coup.
British and European brands predominated until after the second world war: Perrier, a French drinks firm, was the first to spell its name in lights; Guinness, Bovril and Schweppes, three other beverage-makers, were also early presences.
In flagrant gerrymandering, constituencies where Palestinians formed the majority had ten times more voters than those where East Bankers of tribal origin predominated.
It was one where no superpower predominated and where state sovereignty was sacred.
The Arab League welcomed the news.Meanwhile, Palestinians expressed anger over what they see as Israeli settlers' encroachment onto East Jerusalem, where Arabs have predominated.
