Sentence examples for prevailing name for from inspiring English sources

R. A. Salisbury referred to it as V. buxifolium in 1805, and this remained the prevailing name for the next forty years; the common name "box-leaved whortle-berry" was used for the species at the time.

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.

A prevailing scorn for handcraft encouraged Guyton, who readily confesses his own manual ineptitude.

Assess the prevailing rate for babysitting services in your area.

Barrick has pocketed returns higher than the prevailing market price for 55 consecutive quarters.

So if the insurer understates the prevailing market rate for those services, the patient is shortchanged.

The proposed technologies are consistent with prevailing national standards for verifying emissions control.

Though it goes against the theory that's been prevailing for a long time.

The first principal component is prevailing for both chip platforms.

The prevailing therapeutic strategy for MM is still chemotherapy.

The river was named for the prevailing strong northwesterly wind currents that sweep its valley between the Shoshone and Wind River mountain ranges.