Sentence examples for used prevailing from inspiring English sources

The insurance companies set a minimum premium payment based on a policyholder's age at the time, and then used prevailing returns on stocks and bonds to argue that there would be enough profit on investments to cover both the rising premiums and the guaranteed dividend on the cash value.

He concludes that late nineteenth and early twentieth century courts used prevailing scientific theories in much the same way that the Supreme Court used such theories in Brown v. Board of Education-that judicial decisions of the time were very much a product of the prevailing scientific views concerning the wisdom of separation of the races.

The OF trial [7] was conducted in a single country and used prevailing or local prices to calculate costs.

The two trials [22], [23] were conducted in a single centre and used prevailing or local prices to calculate costs.

This design, compared to the widely used prevailing process — 'double column' process, can obtain the total profit increase of 1 326 160 USD per year with the same feed and product specifications based on the FCCU capacity of 1 200 000 tons/yr.

Instead, Judge Miller said he believed the board could use its own discretion, using prevailing guidelines, to determine the voters' intent.

Unrealistic knees in calculations using prevailing models based on precipitation are not observed in the trapping model predictions.

G.F.N. measures how much land and water area we need to produce the resources we consume and absorb our waste, using prevailing technology.

The World Bank calculated prices for the three-fifths of the population who live in rural areas by using prevailing prices in agricultural areas at the fringes of the 11 cities and administered by those cities.

These hairs are situated on the pedipalps along different planes and thus allow scorpions to detect the direction of air movement, which enables them to catch aerial prey, detect predators, and navigate by using prevailing winds.

When the human genome project started, sceptics argued it would take centuries to scan an entire human genome using prevailing technologies; in fact, thanks to exponential advances in sequencing technology, it was done in less than 15 years.But what if the biggest breakthroughs come in improving man himself?