adjetivo

• 1Existing at a particular time; current.

  ‘the unfavourable prevailing economic conditions’

  Más frases de ejemplo

  • ‘There is nearly always good refuge to fish in any prevailing winds.’
  • ‘Steve Trewhella There were a number of non-native, pelagic marine visitors to our coast during the prevailing autumn winds.’
  • ‘An order to sell your shares at the prevailing market price.’
  • ‘Second, the direction of dispersal could have been biased by prevailing oceanographic configurations.’
  • ‘The visitors were giving an exhibition of how not to play with a prevailing storm.’
  • ‘Bukey's interpretation of Austria's annexation to Germany largely follows the prevailing view.’
  • ‘However, they also participated in the passionate nationalism prevailing at the time.’
  • ‘Mr McCarthy also attributed the increased demand to current economic situation prevailing in Zimbabwe.’
  • ‘Composers were encouraged to explore modes of expression compatible with the prevailing revolutionary mood.’
  • ‘Following the collapse of Reza Shah's dictatorship, with the new conditions prevailing, a large group of political prisoners were released.’
  • ‘They were important ethnographic studies in the prevailing American tradition.’
  • ‘The option's exercise price is usually the most recent prevailing market price at date of grant.’
  • ‘In the 17th Century, however, the prevailing direction of exchanges began to shift.’
  • ‘What we are pleased to call "prevailing business sentiment" is a complex hydra-headed beast.’
  • ‘He discussed several issues regarding the prevailing state of affairs in our beloved country, Pakistan.’
  • ‘In the circumstances then prevailing, the respondent throughout behaved reasonably.’
  • ‘Balbridie is therefore a serious threat to the prevailing view of the Neolithic, in which nomadic gatherers practised just a little agriculture.’
  • ‘Where your shopping dollar helps bring the prevailing retail wage in your town down to Wal-Mart level.’
  • ‘Genetically modified maize, the prevailing genetically modified plant cultivated in Bulgaria, is not on the list.’

  1. 1.1Having most appeal or influence; prevalent.
     ‘the prevailing mood within Whitehall circles’
     Más frases de ejemplo

     • ‘By poking holes, lots of holes, in the prevailing theories of today.’
     • ‘Return might be the hideous height of his prevailing good intentions.’
     • ‘Rather, the original decision is a more accurate reflection of the attitudes prevailing in senior government circles.’
     • ‘Critical opinion of his work has undergone the vicissitudes of prevailing tastes in art.’
     • ‘Among the patrons in theater lobbies each summer, the prevailing accent is (accents are) American.’
     • ‘Reciprocity has been the prevailing view for most of the nation's history.’
     • ‘Under the prevailing view, talented people can naturally expect greater income.’
     • ‘The other prevailing stereotype, that crack-using women are unfit mothers, was in a sense upheld by the women themselves.’
     • ‘Open source software is often portrayed as a breakthrough in the free and open exchange of intellectual property, without precedent in the prevailing global capitalist mentality.’
     • ‘Wilson, like Attlee, nailed his colours to the prevailing exchange rate.’
     • ‘Many of the major advances in the pulmonary circulation were led by mavericks, such as Forssman, Moser, and Petty, who pursued their passion against prevailing opinion.’
     • ‘In spite of prevailing opinion, the.32 S&amp[.;]W Long is not a toy.’
     • ‘It is obviously contrary to the prevailing mood throughout the country.’
     • ‘Despite the three ATRs, there is a prevailing feeling that justice has not been done.’
     • ‘Certainly, the South's geographical advantages added to a prevailing sense of overconfidence that independence could be achieved easily.’
     • ‘Her statement encapsulates the prevailing mood of optimism in this sprawling settlement.’
     • ‘The problem is that the prevailing global sentiment has been against the idea of killing any more whales.’
     • ‘Now the prevailing opinion is that, with few exceptions, NFL teams are well-stocked at the most critical position on offense.’
     • ‘The prevailing culture is that you are not allowed to make a judgement.’
     • ‘The prevailing view was that a survey should be conducted among the youth in the form of a questionnaire to establish what they wanted.’