According, then, to what I take to be the prevailing view, these rioters were merely a handful of irresponsible, Stalinist-corrupted provocateurs.

In keeping with the prevailing view of celestial bodies as balls of fire in the sky, Anaximenes proposed that the earth let out an exhalation of air that rarefied, ignited and became the stars.

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

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.

The prevailing view has been called " The Rational Model ", " Technical Problem Solving " and " The Reason-Centric Perspective ".

At that time, the prevailing view of the cosmos was that the universe consisted entirely of the Milky Way Galaxy.

" However, what Climacus means by the aforementioned statement, is that Hegel, in the Philosophy of Right, believed the best solution was to surrender one's individuality to the customs of the State, identifying right and wrong in view of the prevailing bourgeois morality.

These challenged a prevailing but largely untested view on their relative importance.

Greenberg's work on African languages, though initially greeted with scepticism, became the prevailing view among scholars.

Many studies seeking to detect, understand, and utilize telepathy have been done, but according to the prevailing view among scientists, telepathy lacks replicable results from well-controlled experiments.

However, the prevailing view is that, the Somb was the first tree on Earth and the progenitor of plant life.

Tycho Brahe, who notes it two days later, will use it to challenge the prevailing view that stars do not change.

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.

The prevailing contemporary view is that most automatisms are the product of secondary personalities who produce knowledge or information the person has learned and repressed or forgotten.

This challenges the prevailing idea of vocational education and the standard layperson view that it focuses on apprenticeships.

Regarding possible Vedic mention of human sacrifice, the prevailing 19th-century view, associated above all with Henry Colebrooke, was that human sacrifice had little scriptural warrant, and did not actually take place.

A main attraction is Lake Corpus Christi State Park whose surround a cove, protected from the prevailing south-easterly winds by high limestone cliffs, and providing a scenic view of the main body of the lake.

The prevailing custom is to arrange the scrolls according to Rashi's view, but some pious Jews are also accustomed to briefly lay the teffilin of Rabbeinu Tam as well, a custom adopted by the Hasidim.

After Christianity and Judaism had separated, the prevailing view regarding Enoch was that of Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, which thought of Enoch as a pious man, taken to Heaven, and receiving the title of Safra rabba ( Great scribe ).

However, the prevailing academic view is that the Adam – God doctrine taught by Young and others was an elaboration of Smith's vague references to Adam's unique role in Mormon doctrine.

The research, which appears in the December 14th, 2007, edition of Science, counters the prevailing view of geologists that mud only settles when water is slow-moving or still, instead showing that " muds will accumulate even when currents move swiftly.

Thus at the time of Edward VIII's Abdication, the prevailing view – formulated by George VI himself – was that the former king had reverted to the rank of HRH, his right as the son of a British sovereign.

* Fringe theory, an idea or a collection of ideas that departs significantly from the prevailing or mainstream view in its particular field of study

Braid summarized and contrasted his own view with the other views prevailing at that time.

The trademark of that industry is on the Union City Seal, though foreign competition and austere prevailing fashions led to the decline of embroidery and other industries in the area by the late 1990s.

Because it was the center of a densely populated cotton-growing district, it was developed into an industrial city, with industry concentrated on the west side so that the prevailing northeast winds would blow fumes away from the city.

" She employs this documentary-realism to focus on individuals of lesser cultural status, challenging prevailing representations of women within the male-dominated Japanese film industry.

These craft distinctions in the railroad industry were remarkably long-lived ; the Railway Labor Act, passed in 1925, recognized the prevailing pattern of division of the workforce into " crafts " and " classes " and the separate craft patterns persisted into the late twentieth century.

Still more dynamic development is achieved in industry, with the prevailing " Bane " metal complex, the Sombor battery factory, the " Crvena zastava " van factory, the " Dunav " shipyard, and particularly food industry which with the capacities of its " Sunce " oil factory and " Somboled " diary, carries out entirely all the processing of the agricultural yield.

Laura Cassidy of the Seattle Weekly described the prevailing aesthetic: " Creatively employing the open, airy brick-walled spaces left behind by industry and manufacturing, and augmenting them with local art and 20th-century detritus, Georgetown's merchants consistently fashion warm, imaginative interiors: places you want to visit and never want to leave.

Adding to this is that prevailing winds outside the valley move from north to south, in through the Valley's one opening, where incidentally most of the region's industry is located.

Drummore Harbour, July 2008The harbour, facing north and shielded by the Rhins from the prevailing south-westerly wind, was developed with a jetty in the early 19th century to serve a lime manufacturing industry.

This division of membership naturally ensured that the overall coverage of the ABOA and AISF remained relatively small for many years ; and those who did join frequently continued in the habits of defference and subservience into which they had been inculcated by the prevailing industry culture.

These sectors include, at least: agriculture ( e. g. food security ); education ; communication ( e. g. concerning prevailing health problems and the methods of preventing and controlling them ); housing ; public works ( e. g. ensuring an adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitation ); rural development ; industry ; community organizations ( including Panchayats or local governments, voluntary organizations, etc.

Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress.

so that, although not as eager as I once was to be disapproved of, I can still resist prevailing opinions.

Mahayana Buddhism was no exception to these prevailing magical concepts.

" It was the prevailing opinion among his friends that Capp's Swiftian satire was, to some degree, a creatively channeled, compensatory response to his disability.

However, the most important influence on Bauhaus was modernism, a cultural movement whose origins lay as far back as the 1880s, and which had already made its presence felt in Germany before the World War, despite the prevailing conservatism.

In the context of the prevailing balance of power, the emperor's crucial goal was to preserve Ethiopian independence.

The prevailing method of estimating the length of a border ( or coastline ) was to lay out n equal straight-line segments of length ℓ with dividers on a map or aerial photograph.

The outcome was closely fought, with the Communists finally prevailing with superior military tactics.

Photius compared Clement's treatise, which like his other works was highly syncretic, featuring ideas of Hellenistic, Jewish and Gnostic origin, unfavourably against the prevailing orthodoxy of the 9th century.

But for some 16 intervening centuries of ongoing anatomical study, CSF remains unmentioned in the literature, perhaps because of the prevailing autopsy technique, which involved cutting off the head, thereby removing evidence of the CSF before the brain was examined.

The prevailing opinion at the time was that one should first write a program and then provide a mathematical proof of correctness.

The " Carnage " mix was, by comparison, altogether more conventional, featuring enhanced string treatments, a percussive midpoint flurry of vocal samples ( from Allen and the group's B-side interview ), but broadly following the prevailing instrumental-vocal 12-inch structural paradigm.

In ancient China, the prevailing belief was that the Earth was flat and square, while the heavens were round, an assumption virtually unquestioned until the introduction of European astronomy in the 17th century.

Control of the island was disputed by Great Britain and France in the 18th century, with the British ultimately prevailing.

Gunpowder was, according to prevailing academic consensus, discovered in the 9th century in China, attributed to Chinese alchemists searching for an elixir of immortality.

Germany was a world leader because of its prevailing " corporatist mentality ", its strong bureaucratic tradition, and the encouragement of the government.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

It was innovative for the time, in being both the first ever treaty for a truly international court ( as opposed to a mere arbitral tribunal ), and in providing individuals with access to the court, going against the prevailing doctrines of international law at the time, according to which only states had rights and duties under international law.

This conception of the reign of resurrected and translated saints with Christ on this earth during the millennium-popularly known as chiliasm — was the increasingly prevailing belief of this time.