The phrase "prevailing position" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the current or dominant stance or opinion on a particular topic or issue. Example: Despite some opposing viewpoints, the prevailing position among the board members was to approve the new budget proposal.
A prevailing position of potential instability is when a structure, especially a column, a reservoir, or an aerospace structure such as a projectile, undergoes an axial follower force.
The Department of Education's consideration to use federal money to pay for firearms or training — as first reported by the New York Times Wednesday — would certainly deviate from the government's prevailing position.
In describing, and clearly endorsing, the prevailing position of intersectional feminists, Bina Shah states that, to such enlightened thinkers, those of us in the West have (emphasis mine) "willfully misrepresented the plight of Afghan women".
The basis of this speculation was that both CTX-II and bone resorption are affected by oestrogen [ 16, 26, 32] and by a series of bone resorption inhibitors [ 18, 39] and that the prevailing position in cartilage tissue of CTX-II is at the bone-cartilage interface [ 21].
Not only have they maintained their prevailing position in mature economies, but they are also growing virally in emerging economies.
Is that the prevailing view?
The prevailing situation is uncertainty.
The superiority of the developed instruments is also demonstrated over other prevailing precision positioning systems in terms of the travel range, resolution, and dynamic range.
Attitudes and approaches adopted by the school at the top of the hierarchy would be filtered down the hierarchy because professors, aspiring to gain the next higher level in status (and, it so happens, money), would tend to reflect the positions prevailing in that next higher rung.
The prevailing ethical perspective mirrors the prevailing epistemology.
And they have twigged that valuing big positions at prevailing market prices is foolish: the bigger the position, the worse the price they would get if they tried to unwind it.Perhaps most important, they are taking a long, hard look at how traders are paid.
