Sentence examples for were not prevailing from inspiring English sources

Applying its precedent to the request for lawyers' fees in this case by the Buckhannon Board and Care Home Inc., the Fourth Circuit said that because the case had not been resolved by a court, the plaintiffs were not prevailing parties within the meaning of the statutes and thus could not recover their fees.

"But he is not prevailing, and he has not really engaged in the debate".

I am somewhat confused about Newton N. Minow's statement (letter, March 7) that "the concept of public service in broadcasting is not prevailing these days as it did in the days of Bill Paley, Frank Stanton, David Sarnoff and Leonard Goldenson".

"If they start spouting rubbish about 'not executing our plans' then we really should be worried because sanity is not prevailing".

BILL KRISTOL: He was a cheerful warrior, even when his cause was not prevailing.

However, it should be stressed that the observed methylation of distal regulatory regions is not prevailing, but rather more accentuated in the MRL/MpJ than in the C57BL/6J mouse.

Finally, we modelled gene-gene interactions (epistasis) for genes with multiple eQTLs and revealed that epistasis was not prevailing in all genes but made a substantial contribution in explaining total heritability for some genes analysed.

Because of lack of well-designed and safe sealing tools in bowel walls, single port appendectomy or NOTES in abdominal surgery was not prevailing yet in current surgical field.

Asked if the new statistics meant that the United States was not "prevailing," Mr. Powell said that he had to leave for a meeting at the White House but that two specialists would explain.

A bitter controversy among geologists over this question edged into the open on Thursday, when a report published in the journal Science offered new support for the old-canyon hypothesis, which is not the prevailing one.

This attitude, of course, is not the prevailing one.