Sentence examples for the prevailing value from inspiring English sources

In the current crop of zombie stories, the prevailing value for the beleaguered survivors is a sort of siege mentality, a vigilance so constant and unremitting that it's indistinguishable from the purest paranoia.

"But perhaps we are faced with the possibility rather of a 'two-track' model, two ways of witnessing to the Anglican heritage, one of which had decided that local autonomy had to be the prevailing value and so had in good faith declined a covenantal structure".

In fact, she has so fully absorbed the prevailing value system at work that she will never mention it, because her male colleagues would lose respect for her.

The magnitude of GABA evoked increases in C-fibre excitability index varied within individual fascicles according to the prevailing value of excitability index (see Figure 3).

The mean number of mitoses per HPF in the glandular epithelia was more variable, but the prevailing value was less than one for the SGE in 92.3 % (12/13) to 100%% (10/10) of the samples in FS and LS, respectively.

We are changing cities by challenging the prevailing values.

A.T. & T., when Bannon worked there, was hardly an exemplar of the prevailing values of the modern Republican Party or the modern Democratic Party, for that matter.

In fact, spend a little time on either blog and you will learn a lot about the prevailing values of that community.

(See distribution theory). This distribution not only must provide for the continuance of a society's labour supply (even slaves had to be fed) but also must accord with the prevailing values of different social orders, all of which favour some recipients of income over others men over women, aristocrats over commoners, property owners over nonowners, or political party members over nonmembers.

TO baby boomers of a certain age Donna Reed was a sunny-bright television fixture for eight seasons, the perfect mom — at least according to the prevailing values of the day — radiantly gliding down the staircase every week to answer the beckoning phone, its ringing augmented by an impossibly perky musical theme fittingly titled "Happy Days".

This distribution not only must provide for the continuance of a society's labour supply (even slaves had to be fed) but also must accord with the prevailing values of different social orders, all of which favour some recipients of income over others men over women, aristocrats over commoners, property owners over nonowners, or political party members over nonmembers.