Sentence examples for prevailing mentality from inspiring English sources

"Despite the Christian preaching of love for all, even for one's enemies, the prevailing mentality down the centuries penalized minorities and those who were in any way 'different,' " the document stated.

But above all, the prevailing mentality about teaching must be overhauled.

In Yksityisiä asioita (1960; "Private Matters"), he castigates the prevailing mentality during the civil war (1918) in Finland.

This was the prevailing mentality when Sachio Semmoto took an engineering job in 1966 at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), then a state-owned monopoly.

Despite the various initiatives, the biggest obstacle to advancing protections for girls seems to be the prevailing mentality in Morocco about women and their place in society.

The prevailing mentality is cottage industry: don't spend to invest in the long term, but instead build to sell out, almost certainly to a large, well-capitalised US player.

However, the absence of discussions about the impact of the majority concept of bilingualism (expressed in the "two plus one equals three" formula) on minority groups may well be a product of the prevailing assimilation mentality.

Meanwhile we are very good at damning places like the U.S. for the same, prevailing ignorant mentality.

Participants alluded to the prevailing patriarchal mentality throughout all layers of society.

Without grasping the very different mentality prevailing in post-Reformation Europe, one cannot fully appreciate what the heroes of Mr. Zagorin's more familiar account achieved.

Or would a prevailing Pacific island mentality drive them to sunny California with the rest of the "brain drain?" By now Oliver Smoot and his two cronies, I wager, would have carried through one if not several "ideas" to replace the old ritual and to keep the Pacific islanders at MIT busy for yet another quarter century.