Sentence examples for previously prevailed from inspiring English sources

Thus the shutters came down against "occasional conformity" that had previously prevailed throughout the land.

In unifying the world, modernization establishes uniform standards, albeit higher ones in many cases than previously prevailed.

First, Congress purposefully substituted the mechanical formula of § 1563(a)(2) for the subjective, case-by-case analysis that had previously prevailed.

An appeals court recently sent the case back to State Supreme Court, where the veterans had previously prevailed on statute of limitations grounds.

The current Barcelona team, though, is the best club side the world has ever seen and no Scottish club had previously prevailed against such a mighty opponent and in such a prestigious competition.

The history unfolds as follows: In 2010, the state passed a law requiring school districts to institute new teacher evaluation systems to replace the thumbs-up-thumbs-down, Siskel & Ebert model that previously prevailed.

And by means of an aqueduct he conveyed to this place springs of drinking-water which gush forth at a very great distance, and thus abated the lack of sweet water which previously had prevailed there.

It requires the employer to sever links with the multiemployer industrywide agreements that have often prevailed previously.

Previously, Mr. Kenny had prevailed on one of his followers to stop trying to close a club headed by Anthony Anastasio, the Brooklyn rackets Kiss.

In a 2009 book based on data generated by the project, "Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why," Frank Baumgartner of the University of North Carolina and four colleagues found that the side with more lobbyists who previously served in government prevailed 63 percent of the time.

Previously, however, progress has prevailed – whether left or right, Clement Attlee or Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair or David Cameron, modernisation has drowned them out.