Howard had a splendid vision in which he sought to transform the city into a liveable place by integrating qualities of the country in the city through parks, recreation grounds and allotment gardens, which were to substitute slums and the urban squalor prevailing in the city at the time (Howard, [1902]).
"A sense of security is prevailing in the city," said V. S. D'Souza, deputy commissioner of the Bangalore police.
The bad news here is that Snyder's chances of prevailing over the city's anti-SLAPP statute aren't that bad.
Since most of the stations in that survey were in urban surroundings, the combustion particles (prevailing in the city centre) could cause relative risk up to 1.17 per 10 μg/m3 increase of PM2.5, as Jerret et al. found in the California cohort used in the ACS study [ 35].
Ireland and Sweden, for instance, underwent a spectacular catch-up from the time of the Great Famine to World War I. "Ireland was transformed from a poverty-stricken peasant economy to an economy that boasted urban wages close to those prevailing in English cities," says Williamson.
The effect of CO on cardiovascular disease is well known, with CO replacing oxygen in the blood stream, but at the low CO concentrations prevailing in the cities under study, it cannot be simply assumed that if CO is the "cause" of any effects found here, it is due to this mechanism.
The authors speculated that this might be due to a flattening of the exposure-response function at the high levels of exposure prevailing in Chinese cities, but the indirect method they used to estimate exposure to PM2.5 may have involved considerable measurement errors, which could have attenuated the risk coefficient.
What is more, Mr. Miller said his proposal hinged on the city's prevailing in its court battle with the state over a debt-refinancing plan that would add $500 million a year to the city's coffers.
This called for the Bank of England to be given the control of macroprudential regulation supervision, a "big picture" assessment of prevailing conditions in the City, together with an important say in the supervision of individual banks.
More recently, Mayor Bloomberg attempted to change a long standing practice whereby the comptroller sets the city's prevailing wage standard.
