prevailing view
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprevailingandview
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prevailing
adjective
uk/prɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/us/prɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/
existing in a particular place or at a ...
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view
noun
uk/vjuː/us/vjuː/
an opinion, belief, or idea, or a way of thinking ...
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(Definition ofprevailingandviewfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Or such is theprevailingview.
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Theprevailingviewis that resistance expressed itself in a wide range of activities.
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The results of this examination challenge theprevailingviewnoted above.
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As a result, theprevailingviewthat recognition was a crucial event will be challenged.
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This is contrary to theprevailingviewthat participation in medical research is supererogatory.
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Aprevailingviewis that children acquire a representational theory of mind.
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Such a portrait is wholly consistent with theprevailingviewof recent historiography.
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Psychoanalysis began in radical opposition to aprevailingviewthat mental disorders represented a constitutional irreversible vulnerability of the individual.
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The failure of governments single-mindedly to embrace this liquidationist dogma only made things worse, in theprevailingview.
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Theprevailingviewthen was that ' the family ' was in inexorable decline; unexpectedly, however, new forms of familial solidarity emerged (pp. 158-70).
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This is a substantial finding by itself, which counterbalances theprevailingviewin the literature that compound stress is a more or less categorical phenomenon.
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Indeed, theprevailingviewwithin the military is that uncertainty in moral choices is inherent to the work of military doctors.
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As indicated in our introduction, this finding runs counter to theprevailingviewof ageism, but is in line with the current evolution of the concept.
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Theprevailingviewwas that the increased costs of health care should be financed by public expenditure, and alternatives such as higher user-charges were not approved.
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In so doing, theprevailingviewhas broadly settled on combating a perceived dichotomous divide between those citizens who are 'connected' and those citizens who remain 'disconnected'.
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Theprevailingviewthat all research results must be subjected to rigorous statistical analyses may discourage some scientists from becoming involved in research that cannot be easily analyzed6.
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The result was that in the discussion that was unquestionably theprevailingview.
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If that is theprevailingview, let us have it out in the open.
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Theprevailingviewseems to be that our fleet is at maximum capacity.
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Theprevailingviewseems to be that arithmetic will be easier for them with dots.
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I gather that this is theprevailingviewin the voluntary housing movement.
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They reject theprevailingviewthat concepts are acquired before words can be learned to express them, arguing instead that children learn concepts and words at the same time.
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In my opinion, theprevailingviewthat consumers are not fit to take part in management is wrong.
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This was theprevailingviewin the late 20th century.
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