Prevails

Examples

• The spirit of party prevails less in Scotland than in England. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The usual corporation spirit, wherever the law does not restrain it, prevails in all regulated companies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A certain festive cheerfulness prevails. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The interest in both is of the very same kind: It is general, avowed, and prevails in all times and places. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But nothing so simply true as that prevails in politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Such is the state of affairs which prevails among them. Plato. The Republic.
• One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious association. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The reverse of this practice prevails when those policemen of the seas, the _torpedo boats_, guard the treasures of the shore. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The park also will be calm--I know, a mortal serenity prevails everywhere--yet let me seek the park. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• One principle prevails in the souls of one class of men, another in others, as may happen? Plato. The Republic.
• It is the peremptory military spirit which prevails in the government of honour. Plato. The Republic.
• The disorder that prevails is what requires my efforts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Sometimes the one, sometimes the other prevails, according to the disposition and character of the person. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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