The phrase "the prevailing standard" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the most commonly accepted or expected way of doing something at a particular time or in a particular context. Example: "In today's society, the prevailing standard for success is often defined by material wealth and career achievements."
And if your guanxi with the host is close, you must give more, regardless of income.The careful record-keeping system also puts pressure on people to match previous gifts, a dynamic that ensures the prevailing standard will only keep rising.
For all the appearance of success, she has had darker days, as chronicled in her book, in which she describes starving herself to be a "straight size" model, the industry term for girls who meet the prevailing standard of beauty, which is to say extremely thin.
Detailed feedback from the surgical team verified that this new approach is more reliable and therefore considerably less time-consuming than audible Doppler ultrasound, the prevailing standard method of navigation.
The startup also needs to update its product for Apple's current generation of mobile devices; Lightning is the prevailing standard on Apple iOS hardware now, and its use will likely occlude that of 30-pin entirely come September when Apple introduces new iPhone hardware.
Following the prevailing standard, for those biopsies indicative of NAFLD, the diagnosis of steatohepatitis was based on the pathologists' interpretation of the global histological features including steatosis, lobular and portal inflammation and ballooning degeneration of hepatocytes.
The Children with HIV Early Anti retroviral Therapy (CHER) trial [ 4] recently showed that early antiretroviral therapy (ART), commenced at a median of 7 weeks of age was associated with a 75% reduction in mortality versus the prevailing standard of care at the time (the WHO 2006 guidelines) [ 7].
The harmonic language is often quite dissonant, at least by the prevailing standards of American popular music.
The question that needs to be asked, said James B. Gilbert, a social historian at the University of Maryland, is the extent to which each generation's culture exceeds the prevailing standards of the day.
"I believe nothing of any beauty or truth comes of a piece of writing without the author's thinking he has sinned against something – propriety, custom, faith, privacy, tradition, political orthodoxy, historical fact, literary convention, or indeed, all the prevailing standards together".
If the prevailing standards align with yours, that's great.
She is also in the process of seeking hormone replacement therapy and other treatments that are in line with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Care, the prevailing standards of care for such individuals.
