Throughout the 3rd century the prevailing tradition in the African church had regarded the church as a body of the elect.
As for efforts whose ambitions have not yet been set, the prevailing tradition in large-scale activism has for decades been that good ideas about tactics and strategy are heeded and implemented no matter from whom they originate.
Although reacting, especially in his early papers, primarily against the prevailing tradition of 19th-century British idealism, Moore criticized Berkeley's esse est percipi doctrine while at the same time rejecting Kant's transcendental idealism.
Given the variability of socio-demographic and cultural contexts, differentials in perception of vulnerability or risk for newborns, and prevailing customs, traditions and beliefs within communities, it is critically important to understand community-specific patterns and determinants of population-level neonatal care seeking practices, especially for preterm newborns.
Although Autrecourt was no skeptic — on the contrary, he attacked the "Academics" or ancient Skeptics — his philosophical stance challenges the prevailing Aristotelian tradition.
Until relatively recently, the prevailing scientific tradition was to not include women in clinical trials.
Each country has its own unique legal and medical traditions, prevailing social, economic, and cultural conditions, and constitutional principles that no model law can fully address.
Although the building was deeply influenced by the Persian-born traditions of the Seljuq Turks, the style was blended with prevailing Hellenic and Byzantine traditions of the city.
The paintings of Gustav Courbet, Édouard Manet, and the Impressionists represent a deepening rejection of the prevailing academic traditions of Neoclassicism and Romanticism and a quest for a more-truthful naturalistic representation of the visual world.
Working with African leaders, the most effective health workers learned to respect the prevailing community traditions.
