Word Finder - prevails

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To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.

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Red colour prevails in the Canadian flag.

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To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.

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In his day and age, such practices prevailed all over Europe.

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To succeed in persuading or inducing.

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I prevailed on him to wait.

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To avail.

Breeding is unregulated and natural selection prevails.

The terrace formation of the land characteristic of other coast regions of South Africa prevails in Natal.

A relative scarcity in running waters prevails in the whole region between the Danube and the Drave.

The banken veld district is also generally healthy though hotter than the plateaus, and malarial fever prevails in the lower valleys.

These infarcts are most common in organs provided with a terminal circulation, such as prevails in the kidney and spleen.

The same inter-communication prevails between adjacent cells in some animal tissues, and more particularly in those which are pathological, as in the case of the epithelial cells of cancer.

In actively growing neoplasmata, certainly, the indirect method prevails largely, but seems to go on side by side with the direct.

When the rivers are at their lowest, the garua prevails on the coast.

Bilious remittent fever occurs in the summer months, and smallpox prevails from November to March.

This appears to indicate B that the Polyzoa are remotely allied to other phyla in which this type of larva prevails, and in particular to the Mollusca and Chaetopoda, as well as to the Rotifera, which are regarded as persistent Trochospheres.

James Melville (1556-1614), nephew of the more celebrated reformer, Andrew Melville, who was minister of Kilrenny, has given in his Diary a graphic account of the arrival at Anstruther of a weatherbound ship of the Armada, and the tradition of the intermixture of Spanish and Fifeshire blood still prevails in the district.

The first and most important is the Manchu-Korean type; that is to say, the type which prevails in north China and in Korea.

From the 18th of November to the 23rd of January the sun is not seen, and the enforced quiet of winter prevails.

Blue mud prevails in large areas of the Pacific Ocean from the Galapagos Islands to Acapulco.

Though liberty of worship prevails, Roman Catholicism is almost the sole form.

The object is the protection of widows and orphans, but the right has been very much abused, and its abuse is in part responsible for the high rate of interest which prevails.

In the denser jungles malaria prevails for months after the cessation of the rains, but the Gonds do not appear to suffer much from its effects.

In the summer and the autumn the weather is commonly fine, and often most beautiful; and especially in the Berkshires a cool, pure and elastic atmosphere prevails, relatively dry, and altogether delightful.

The terms of agrarian contracts and leases (except in districts where mezzadria prevails in its essential form), are in many regions disadvantageous to the laborers, who suffer from the obligation to provide guarantees for payment of rent, for repayment of seed corn and for the division of products.

They perform a useful function in protecting their clients from the cruel usury which prevails, especially in the south.

Still more diversity of opinion prevails as to the southern gold-exporting port of Ophir, which some scholars place in Arabia, others at one or another point on the east coast of Africa.

During the embryonic stage the lids are fused together, and either become separated shortly before the bird is hatched, as is the case with most Nidifugae, or else the blind condition prevails for some time, in the young Nidicolae.

For instance, the Tyranninae are anacromyod, while the closely allied Pipras and Cotingas are katacromyod; both these modifications can be shown to have been derived but recently from the weak mesoand oligomyodian condition which prevails in the majority of the so-called Oligomyodi.

The climate in late geologic time was very different from that which prevails to-day.

No alternative hypothesis prevails, mere desultory criticism of the internal intricacies being quite inadequate.

In Germany Jews are still rarely admitted to the rank of officers in the army, university posts are very difficult of access, Judaism and its doctrines are denounced in medieval language, and a tone of hostility prevails in many public utterances.

From the upper Sajur northwards Turkish prevails, even among the Armenians; but many Kurdish communities retain their own tongue.

The heat of summer (December-March, which is the rainy season) is tempered by cool breezes; winter (MaySeptember, inclusive) is dry, cold and bracing, and frost prevails for prolonged periods.

Whereas in the Metanemertines an arrangement prevails as represented in fig.

Such isomerism, named stereoisomerism (q.v.),hasbeen assiduously developed during recentyears; it prevails among many different classes of organic compounds and many examples have been found in inorganic chemistry.

Malaria prevails in the valley of the Webi Shebeli.

It is in proportion as a sedentary life prevails, and agricultural exploitation is practised on a larger scale, whilst warlike habits continue to exist, that the labour of slaves is increasingly introduced to provide food for the master, and at the same time save him from irksome toil.

Considerable bitterness prevails between the rival confessions, each aiming at political ascendancy, but the government favours none.

Besides huge masses of old schists and sandstones, the range contains extensive limestone, marble, diorite, basalt and porphyry formations, while granite prevails on its southern slopes.

The real cause of the trouble which prevails among men is the papacy, a "fictitious" power, the development of which is the result of a series of usurpations.

Mahommedanism prevails throughout the island, except among the mountain tribes.

This soil prevails throughout the southern counties and the Minnesota and Red River valleys, in which sections cereal crops predominate.

The old Moorish style of building about an open court, or patio, prevails, and the livingrooms of the family are on the second floor.

The custom of tolling the curfew still prevails in Okehampton.

A similar system prevails in New Guinea.

Some confusion prevails also as to whether the islands Bennett, Henrietta and Jeannette, discovered by the "Jeannette" expedition, ought to be included in the same archipelago, or described separately as the Jeannette Islands.

In the district of the Weald marl prevails, with a substratum of clay.

In the United States a similar system prevails in New York, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Haven and many other large towns.

The old religious system still prevails to a large extent, and, though some of the orders do their work with great devotion, the standard of knowledge and skill is not up to modern requirements.

A certain amount of scepticism prevails among the educated classes, and political motives may ' contribute to their apparent orthodoxy, but there is no open dissent from Buddhism, and those who discard its dogmas still, as a rule, venerate it as an ethical system.

It was much more advanced than that of 1842, and in its main features still prevails.

This adherence was, and still is, often only nominal, for the statistics take no note of the great mass of indifferentism and liberalism which prevails in the ranks of the Church.

The general system of ecclesiastical government which prevails among all Lutheran churches is called the consistorial.

The same custom prevails among Mahommedans.

There are two main varieties; in one luck alone prevails, since the player has no choice of play but must follow strict rules; in the other an opportunity is given for the display of skill and judgment, as the player has the choice of several plays at different stages of the game.