There is an added layer of poignancy to Stoke's renovation in a season in which the prevailing debate continues to surround the tedium being served up by the country's self-styled swashbucklers.
The prevailing argument in Bonn has shifted.
But that is another discussion, and, however worthy, not the prevailing debate on Monday night in the wake of Alabama's historic achievement in its own homespun way.
It flourishes in a federal government that never got as small as Mr. Reagan might have wished, but in which the prevailing economic debate is now almost always over how much to cut taxes, not whether.
It's how having no money affects the prevailing conversations and debates and ambitions in the school.
On the economic turf, where expert endorsements should make life easy for remain, we saw that prevailing in a "debate" does not necessarily require any analytical support.
Some observers said that the document suggests that the administration's most ardent missile defense advocates, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, are prevailing in the debate on the issue within senior administration ranks.
And yet, sixty years after Brown, the prevailing idea in these debates remains one that is similar to the argument presented in Plessy: that the major, and perhaps the only, problem with ongoing segregation is the way black people perceive and respond to it.
As the first 'Dean for Research Impact' appointed by a UK higher education institution, Professor Greenhalgh will summarise prevailing national and international debates about what research impact is; how it should be measured; how to balance the potentially conflicting agendas of 'economic' and 'societal' impact; and how to build capacity at all levels for delivering on both these agendas.
In the present debate, the prevailing arguments from each of those camps are made available for the reader to decide.
