Until recently, prevailing in such a case likely would have required showing that a man in the same situation was treated differently.
He hung on until the prevailing winds changed.
Until now, prevailing medical theory said men and women process pain the same way.
Until recently, the prevailing philosophy among shoppers was "more is more is more," said Trey Laird, chief creative officer at Laird & Partners in New York.
Given little chance of prevailing until a week ago, Mr Brown has tapped the winds of frustration and anger with the perceived lack of progress in Washington and a widespread feeling of disappointment, itself fuelled by both the stalling economic recovery and the rhetoric of conservative media commentators.
Keaton seems to be prevailing until the Chaplin fan plays his trump card -- the famous scene from "City Lights" in which the blind flower seller, her sight restored thanks to an operation paid for by the Little Tramp, recognizes her benefactor by touching his face.
Until now, the prevailing hypothesis has said that as stars evolve, metals (astronomers' term for any chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium) in the swirling disk around them form tiny "seeds" that attract other matter and slowly grow into planets.
Until recently the prevailing scholarly view was that Hamilton, like the Founders generally, lacked a deep concern about slavery.
Until recently, the prevailing model for p53 function has been studied primarily within the nucleus with the exception of studying the stability of the p53 protein itself.
Until recently, the prevailing view on how SAPKs, and kinases in general, modulate gene expression has been through direct phosphorylation of transcription factors or co-regulatory proteins.
