Sentence examples for prevailing hard from inspiring English sources

Softer and warmer materials throughout, like linen fabric on upholstered easy chairs, are integrated into the design to soften the prevailing hard surfaces like terrazzo, granite, glass and stainless-steel-mesh window treatments along one outer wall.

Mike Holober, the conductor of the Westchester Jazz Orchestra, said the premise of "1959" was valid in that each of the albums the film explored represented, in its own way, a departure from the prevailing hard bop style, a point he and the sextet will illustrate by playing five tunes drawn from the albums.

But little that he says today deviates from the Party's prevailing hard-line tenets: no new taxes, a blanket repeal of "Obamacare," the appointment of Supreme Court Justices committed to repealing Roe v. Wade, a pledge to cut billions of dollars in unspecified spending for entitlements, little sympathy for gays.

This has a certain charm, but makes the prevailing tone hard to gauge.

But winning on clay is certainly a bigger challenge for Agassi than prevailing on a hard court.

The American moved a break up early in the second set to draw level in the match before prevailing in a hard-fought third to clinch a 6-7 (6/8) 6-3 8-6 vintory inearlyly three hours.

Iranian-American relations are not about to witness a "Nixon in China" moment, argues Mr Sadjadpour: the Rohani team's goal is not full rapprochement, involving such steps as embassy openings, but a careful détente in which Iran keeps its nuclear options open while easing painful international sanctions.The prevailing mood of hard-headed caution is probably no bad thing.

We will have a hard time prevailing in today's war as long as fewer than one-half of 1percentt of all service members have any grasp of Arabic.

According to Marquis James in his 1941 book "Alfred I. du Pont, the Family Rebel," the building "almost filled with tenants as soon as it opened; it returned a profit even in the hard times prevailing.

Evil often seems to succeed, at least in the short run; goodness has a harder time prevailing.

"Very often when you are going for real innovation," he says, "you have to go against prevailing wisdom, and it's hard to go against prevailing wisdom when there are people who have been there for a long time and you have some vice president who says, 'No, that doesn't make sense.' " Pharmaceutical companies are eager to tap into the talent at leading research universities.