Despite arguments prevailing on the ivory trade for the last thirty years through CITES, there is one fact that virtually all informed parties now agree-poaching of African elephants for ivory is now seriously on the increase.

By now, tactus was generally two semibreves per breve with three per breve used for special effects and climactic sections ; this was a nearly exact reversal of the prevailing technique a century before.

St. Therese of Lisieux, a Carmelite nun of late 19th-century France who has now been declared a Doctor of the Church, is an influential example of a Catholic Saint who questioned prevailing attitudes toward physical penance.

The archaeological record is poor until about 20, 000 years ago, partly due to the prevailing conditions, but also because the coastline was much further north than at present, so that many sites are now under the sea.

In the many discussions that I held with such officials up to the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the President's Science Adviser, not one Victorian demurrer was ever voiced ; and a great deal of helpful encouragement was given ... The idea of government censorship of the Pioneer 10 plaque is now so well documented and firmly entrenched that no statement from the designers of the plaque to the contrary can play any role in influencing the prevailing opinion.

The prevailing public taboos against sex, and over-zealous authorities, made progress difficult for The Garden, but hundreds of sex boutiques now flourish across the country and " sex toy parties " modeled after " Tupperware parties " have become the latest rage ... illustrating the enormous shift in public attitudes since 1971.

On official Saudi maps and documents, the city name is transcribed " Jeddah ", which is now the prevailing usage.

The prevailing opinion now is that successful market economies rest on a framework of law, regulation and established practice that cannot be instantaneously created in a society that was formerly authoritarian, heavily centralised and subject to state ownership of assets.

Lake volume is now at the mercy of a cascade of forces that include the fact that it is very likely impossible that the prevailing climate pattern of profound drought will or can change to precipitation surcharge in a time frame shorter than that in which the lake level will fall below the dead storage level of the downstream diversion and hydro-power intake tunnels.

In the 19th century, Benjamin Tucker in the United States theorized free-market anarchism: " defense is a service like any other service ; that it is labor both useful and desired, and therefore an economic commodity subject to the law of supply and demand ; that in a free market this commodity would be furnished at the cost of production ; that, competition prevailing, patronage would go to those who furnished the best article at the lowest price ; that the production and sale of this commodity are now monopolized by the State ; and that the State, like almost all monopolists, charges exorbitant prices.

Against a prevailing view that 18th century Americans had not perpetuated the first settlers ' passionate commitment to their faith, scholars now identify a high level of religious energy in colonies after 1700.

According to designer Francis Millet, " The head of Lincoln was selected because it is the only thing which can be used on the medal without offense to the sentiment now happily prevailing over the whole country in regard to the Civil War, and the portrait of Lincoln must be acceptable to everybody, particularly when accompanied by the noble phrase which so tersely and accurately expresses his attitude during the war.

It represented a major stylistic shift from the prevailing polyphonic writing of the middle Renaissance, and was one of the major stylistic developments which led directly to the formation of what we now know as the Baroque style.

Hip hop and rap emerged in the late 1990s and is now the prevailing genre of music among Burmese youth today.

He compared the current international situation with that prevailing at the time of the mutiny of Álzaga over a year earlier, pointed out that Spain was now almost entirely under Napoleonic control and that the undefeated Spanish provinces were very small in comparison with the Americas.

The prevailing scholarly opinion now is that the walls were designed for social and ceremonial purposes related to significant astronomical events.

The de Broglie-Bohm theory is now considered by some to be a valid challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of the Copenhagen Interpretation, but it remains controversial.

On the same night, the lake is described from the other side, now with images of dying stars and the pale face of the moon prevailing.

Hsinbyushin, who had held off renewing the Siamese war since 1770 because of the prevailing Chinese threat up north, was now forced to respond.

The Standard Model, which is now the prevailing model of particle physics, dramatically simplified this picture by showing that most of the observed particles were mesons, which are combinations of two quarks, or baryons which are combinations of three quarks, plus a handful of other particles.

In Persia, the Mesopotamian town of Tagrit ( or Maypherkat, now in Iraq ) alone did not adopt the prevailing religion ; it became the centre of the Miaphysite missions at the commencement of the sixth century.

The Bendahara is now the virtual head of remnants of the Empire as per the prevailing adat.

Swami Vivekananda narrated to her the pitiable condition of the women in India prevailing at that time and wrote to her in a letter, " Let me tell you frankly that I am now convinced that you have a great future in the work for India.

Efficiency of economic integration of specific union right now is assessed as a final outcome between trade creation and diversion effects: it is cost-effective in case of prevailing of the trade creation effects, and vice versa.

Community decision makers must make up their minds whether a claim is acceptable to the larger community in terms of prevailing expectations regarding members of nation states.

To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.

During nighttime hours, because of the intense skywave propagation then prevailing, no large number of stations can be permitted to operate on one of these channels, if the wide area service for which these frequencies are assigned is to be rendered satisfactorily by the dominant stations which must be relied upon to render it.

For Altaicists, the version of Altaic they favor is given at the end of the entry, if other than the prevailing one of Turkic – Mongolic – Tungusic – Korean – Japanese.

( Ruth, prevailing on Miss Marple's long affection for them, arranges for Miss Marple to investigate Ruth's belief that Carrie Louise is in danger of her life.

The ACC has been known to sailors for centuries ; it greatly speeds up any voyages from west to east, but makes sailing extremely difficult from east to west ; though this is mostly due to the prevailing westerly winds.

With hindsight, the machine lacked the RAM ( a typical program would need to fit in only around 20 kB once display memory is subtracted ) and processing power to take on the prevailing Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.

Depending on their actions, and the laws of the prevailing jurisdiction, those engaged in an affray may also render themselves liable to prosecution for assault, unlawful assembly, or riot ; if so, it is for one of these offences that they are usually charged.

The basic requirement for passive solar heating is that the solar collectors must face the prevailing sunlight ( south in the northern hemisphere, north in the southern hemisphere ), and the building must incorporate thermal mass to keep it warm in the night.

The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model that describes the early development of the Universe.

The prevailing scholarly view is that Joshua is not a factual account of historical events.

Within the prevailing Standard Model of particle physics, the number of baryons may change in multiples of three due to the action of sphalerons, although this is rare and has not been observed under experiment.

The prevailing modern view is that Herodotus generally did a remarkable job in his Historia, but that some of his specific details ( particularly troop numbers and dates ) should be viewed with skepticism.

Although this is a relatively rare instance of a female Confucian voice, Ban Zhao almost entirely accepts the prevailing views concerning women's proper roles ; they should be silent, hard-working, and compliant.

A monsoon is a seasonal prevailing wind which lasts for several months, ushering in a region's rainy season.

What future translator Samuel Putnam called " the prevailing slapstick quality of this work, especially where Sancho Panza is involved, the obtrusion of the obscene where it is found in the original, and the slurring of difficulties through omissions or expanding upon the text " all made the Motteux version irresponsible.

The Sabine Women Enforcing Peace by Running between the Combatants, also called The Intervention of the Sabine Women is said to have been painted to honor his wife, with the theme being love prevailing over conflict.

Sediment is transported along the coast in the direction of the prevailing current ( longshore drift ).

From mid-June to mid-September the prevailing wind, called the shamal, is from the north and northwest.

Average rainfall is high compared to the majority of the British Isles, due to its location to the western side of Great Britain and sufficient distance from Ireland for moisture to be accumulated by the prevailing south-westerly winds.