Sentence examples for prevailing world from inspiring English sources

He claimed that a prevailing world attitude of support for the defense of Kuwait effectively isolated Iraq and its president, Ṣaddām Ḥussein, and contributed to a swift U.S.-led victory against the Iraqi forces that had invaded Kuwait.

For much of the country's history, the public has been split into two prevailing world views: those who stress historic rights — who see the Biblical Land of Israel as covering the entire area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River — and those who believe in civil rights, arguing that the occupation of another people is not only unsustainable but unconscionable.

This has made for a prevailing world view that is at times both alarmingly naïve and toxically presumptuous.

So it's a shame that for years the prevailing world view of east London was that depicted by the residents of Albert Square.

Moscow decided that North Korea would have to pay prevailing world prices for Soviet imports rather than the lower "friendship" prices.

This story collection moves from the 19th century to an unidentified future, evoking gothic horrors and outsiders who, as Doctorow puts it in a preface, "are distinct from their surroundings — people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world".

McCain begins his speech by reprising the conditions prevailing before World War II: "beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism and the poverty that imposed"; "a world order [fracturing] into clashing ethnic and nationalist passions"; a failure of deterrence followed by catastrophic conflict.

These projects, which have been coordinated on a national level, contrast with the pattern prevailing before World War II, when foreign-financed railroads were built in different places without any attempt to coordinate or standardize the transport and communications system.

Nothing in the piece upset any typical American preconceptions about black or white folks' places in the world, or challenged prevailing images of the world we live in.

The authors of the Chicago paper calculate that over the long term, America's real interest rate tracks the one prevailing across the world as a whole (see chart).

In professional sports, you sometimes see a sort of upstairs-downstairs effect, with one view of the world prevailing among the fans and another holding sway among those professionally involved in the game — players, trainers, agents.