Sentence examples for prevailing systems from inspiring English sources

This is a response not only to communities' needs but the prevailing systems of construction and accessible material resources.

Nick Mabey, founder of environmental consultancy E3G, said the UK has had a noble history of activists coming together to throw over prevailing systems, with the industrial revolution and the co-operative movement.

This applies in particular to the introduction of small-scale, decentralised technologies in wastewater treatment where prevailing systems are highly centralised.

This essentially empirical method was formulated early in the 17th century by Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, as a scientific substitute for the prevailing systems of thought, which, to his mind, relied all to often on fanciful guessing and the mere citing of authorities to establish truths of science.

The geomorphology of the area, climatic conditions and the prevailing systems of agricultural production in lowland regions at any given time have all been conducive to the development and preservation of this productive system, principally of small ruminants, until the present day.

While prevailing systems may move from west to east, for example, individual storms in a particular region may not, due to local weather phenomena.

The report funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts calls the prevailing system "industrial farm animal production".

How do you keep your livelihood, except by going along with the prevailing system?

Which is right and proper, since under the prevailing system intellectual labour ought to be rewarded.

The prevailing system depends heavily on labor supplied by migrants and immigrants, and its reliance on monoculture raises environmental concerns.

It has been said that, had she been born in East Germany, Margaret Thatcher would have made her career in the prevailing system there, too.