Sentence examples for prevailing order of things from inspiring English sources

There's a charge in the air, a suspension of disbelief, a sense that the prevailing order of things has been put on hold.

The worst violence has ravaged the country since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderón sent the army into Tamaulipas and Michoacan to deal with insurgencies in those states by the Zetas and a cartel called La Familia, which were breaking up the prevailing order of things.

In one guise or another, resigned submission remained the prevailing order of the day.

There needs to be a crisis of the prevailing order.

For Sirk, the grand finale was a funeral for the prevailing order, a trumpet blast against social façades and walls of silence.

Unlike the more reformist politics of liberal feminism, radical feminists of the 1980s largely sought to reject the prevailing order altogether, sometimes advocating separatism (Daly 1985 , 1990.

And it particularly rankles the center that a pair of "wingnuts" are behind a successful effort to challenge the prevailing order.

Sometimes the prevailing order is unseen, unknown".

Yet efforts to circumvent the prevailing order abound.

Post-modernism seeks to challenge prevailing notions about "the order of things" and the assumptions that underpin ingrained principles of western science [ 23].

Where conservatism seeks to preserve the status quo, nostalgia laments the prevailing state of things and agitates for change.