Sentence examples for prevailing conventions from inspiring English sources
As with the reformers, the Greens believe that democratic empowerment at home mandates a foreign policy that acknowledges prevailing conventions.
Mr. Oliver's show, "Last Week Tonight," is counterintuitive to the prevailing conventions of television, but has been a smash hit.
His marked disregard for the prevailing conventions of written counterpoint seems to suggest the approach of a virginal player rather than that of a church-trained organist.
The fact that Courbet did not glorify his peasants but presented them boldly and starkly assaulted the prevailing conventions of the art world.
Hopper stands with two other American artists, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, whose likewise monumental styles also trashed prevailing conventions of good painting and have proved to be deathless.
Where certain patterns of musical structure have gained broad recognition (as the ragas, or melody types, of India), musicians will as a rule rework such patterns extemporaneously though in accordance with prevailing conventions.
The prevailing convention, however, remains that ecological equivalence explicitly requires symmetric species with identical per capita vital rates, thereby promulgating the notion that HNT is built on an unrealistic foundation [3].
In the face of uncertainty the latter counseled their readers to remain loyal to the prevailing religious conventions of the time in this case Roman Catholicism.
When the Qarase Government was under the influence of ultra-nationalist coalition partners, which strongly pursued pro-iTaukei and anti-Indian politics an all-time political low should have been the "rational" outcome following prevailing political conventions.
Since Akagi was initially conceived as a battlecruiser, the prevailing ship naming conventions dictated that she (like her sister ships) be named after a mountain.
Cleveland's mayor, Frank Jackson, also acknowledged reluctant acceptance of the state law prevailing over planned convention-related events.
