As always the prevailing wind has its background colored.

Some alpine plants use it as their predominant method of reproduction.

Firewood is the predominant energy carrier in Nepali households, counting for more than 70 percent of consumption, followed by LPG, which is gaining popularity.

Britain was never as dominant as the US is today.

Laughter, in fact, is the overriding reaction to the debacle.

The prevailing wisdom was that on the largest of scales the universe was static.

He leads a party that is increasingly opposed to any European project apart from trade.

You know, there're still going to be paper dictionaries, but it's not going to be the dominant dictionary.

Indeed, talentism will be the prevailing economic credo, with human or intellectual capital becoming the most critical asset and the one most difficult to acquire and retain.

The prevailing Chinese mindset is that the US is intent on isolating, containing, and undermining it.

One prevailing myth is that cancer is primarily a developed country problem.

The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century.

NEW YORK While the risk of a disorderly crisis in the eurozone is well recognized, a more sanguine view of the United States has prevailed.

The prevailing view has usually stressed supply constraints and the policies needed to fix them.

Taxation remains the dominant source of government revenue in most developed countries.

The predominant belief since the dissolution of the Soviet Union has been that another world is not possible.

The dominant trend in the global economy is the convergence process that began after World War II.

The prevailing explanation a brutally cold winter is wearing so thin that everyone should be able to see through it.

Ironically, questioning prevailing wisdom and thereby inventing radically new solutions has been Silicon Valley s modus operandi from the outset.

Inflation is projected to remain moderate over the projection horizon , being dampened by the slack prevailing in the euro area .

Syria s leading role in Lebanon, even after withdrawing its occupying forces there, is only one complication.

The Grüner Veltliner is the dominant grape varietal cultivated in Austria, and the dry white wines produced from this grape have gained international recognition.

ZURICH Over the last two decades, inflation targeting has become the predominant monetary policy framework.

We may, in fact, have entered a new geological era the Anthropocene, where humans are the predominant driver of change at a planetary level.

In October of 1903, the prevailing opinion of expert aerodynamicists was that maybe in 10 million years we could build an aircraft that would fly.

Livestock production The bovine is the most predominant livestock in the municipality of Matamoros, and the commercialization of its meat is the principal income of ranchers in the region.

According to my research with Larry Lau, technology has played the largest role boosting productivity in the G 7 economies since World War II.

Making the connection between their differences and mainstream French culture, she had an interesting take on the Je Suis Charlie slogan that became symbolic of the tragedy

Without Britain, the EU becomes a Franco German enterprise, with Germany very much the dominant partner, and all the smaller member states squeezed between the two.

Besides the conditions within the camps themselves, which vary from camp to camp but never surpass the barely tolerable, discrimination within Lebanese society is still very prevalent.

After all, game theory dictates that, once the surplus is eliminated, the dominant producer must prevent oil prices from rising high enough to cause it to lose market share again.

And what happens is this is I'm going to show you now some fallout plumes. Within 20 minutes, it comes straight down. Within 24 hours, lethal radiation is going out with prevailing winds, and it's mostly in this particular direction it's going northeast.

So I have this distinction between what we're making people do and the subject that's sort of mainstream and the subject that, in a sense, people might follow with their own interest and perhaps even be spiked into doing that.

The language of blogging in East Ukraine and Crimea is overwhelmingly Russian. In some ways this mirrors local 'offline' preferences both regions are heavily russophone. In other ways this mirrors a general Ukrainian trend Russian is the preferred language of print media (60 of newspapers and 83 of magazines) and the Internet.

That is because Russia s re emergence as a global power requires not just the reintegration of lost Soviet territories, but also direct access to Europe and a dominant role there, especially in Eastern Europe.

Although bossa nova was the prevailing sound of the times, the partnership Baden Vinicius wanted to transcend the then fashionable sound by syncretizing Afro Brazilian forms such as Candomblé, Umbanda and Capoeira with Rio de Janeiro's Samba forms.

Now we hope the Assembly will do the same. Similarly we are pleased that the committee has approved some of the proposals put forward by our rapporteur.

The balance of opinion among international scholars is that a small group around PKI leader Aidit was involved, but not in a way that even remotely implicated the entire party, or that could even begin to justify the bloody nationwide purge which followed.

The first declining economic growth, to less than 1 , on average, across the region has been discussed at length, with the prevailing explanation being that China s slowing economic growth has suppressed commodity prices and, thus, Latin America s export revenues.

This is a prevalent theme in a discourse completely lacking in respect for individualism and oblivious to its importance as a conditio sine qua non of progress in a country which has long been plagued by collectivist notions, whether on a societal, religious or political level.

The African economic landscape s dominant feature an informal sector comprising microenterprises, household production, and unofficial activities is absorbing the growing urban labor force and acting as a social safety net. But the evidence suggests that it cannot provide the missing productive dynamism.

In poverty stricken Bolivia, Francis criticized the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature, along with a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

Take more, sell more, waste more.

Faster, higher, stronger!

Faster, higher, stronger.