Despite the drop in prices for rare earths in the second half of last year, they remain several times higher than the long-term levels that prevailed until China began severely constricting exports in 2009.
One proposal would make it possible for the state to secure long-term power supplies at lower prices than those that prevail in the wholesale power market today.
Mr. Caruana also warned that the extremely low interest rates that prevail in America and Europe could be damaging in the long term.
In NYPD Blue, Bochco introduced near-nudity and cursing that at least sounded filthy, which signalled that the values of television were back on speaking terms with those that prevailed in the cinema.
Richard Armitage, who was deputy secretary of state in Bush's first term, voiced the view that prevailed through two presidencies.
Compared with the low single-digit long-term interest rates that prevail in much of Europe, Asia and North America, Australian money market rates look downright rich.
Argentina's political threats, dictated "take it or leave it" terms and selective defaults threaten to upset a balance that prevailed through decades of orderly and successful restructurings.
However taken in the context of long-term Sahelian climate history, these conditions are still far below the wetter conditions that prevailed in the region from 1930 to 1965.
The ideology that prevailed, however, was consumerism.
Normal was the state that prevailed pre-2012.
Instead, it is the darkness that prevails.
