The prevailing view was that alternative B was preferable.

The prevailing view, however, was that these exceptions should be deleted.

In October of 1903, the prevailing opinion of expert aerodynamicists was that maybe in 10 million years we could build an aircraft that would fly.

However, the prevalent view had been that such matters were best left to domestic legislators.

However, the prevailing view was that recommendations 100 and 101 should be merged.

Conventional wisdom has always held that the state with the largest military prevails.

As members are aware, my delegation could not make its view prevail in the General Committee.

The mainstream view in Western academic circles has been one that encourages exports and derides import substitution indeed, this view has acquired the status of a new orthodoxy.

The dominant view among delegations was that peace keeping was a collective responsibility to be borne by all Member States under the Charter.

According to the New York Times, this has made it hard to tell the difference between popular sentiment and manufactured public opinion.

This view is based on the fact that the authors themselves and the addressees have not been unanimous in considering them to be legally binding declarations.

This was almost completely unexpected, as the prevailing view was that financial markets are self correcting.

The general view, however, is that the discount rate should be very low, and this implies a high present value of those resources.

Public opinion in their own constituencies at home should not blind them to the truth as they see it in reality, on the ground.

This would only perpetuate further the long held view of the government that Muslims are distinct and separate.

Current conventional wisdom places the blame squarely on the close ties that developed between policymakers and the financial industry in recent decades.

The common view prevailing appears to be that of the need to harmonize programme cycles and to unify administrative procedures under the programme approach concept.

TOKYO There is something odd and disturbing about the conventional wisdom surrounding the upcoming Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The world looks to the UN as never before, yet the conventional wisdom is that we are not up to the job.

We share the broadly held view that the basic principles that have already been identified and recognized can guide the settlement of this issue.

In that context, it was the general view that, unless that trend were reversed, the relevant capacity of the Office to cope with the situation needed to be strengthened.

In that context, it was the general view that, unless that trend was reversed, the relevant capacity of the Office to cope with the situation needed to be strengthened.

The paper took into account the widely held view that the time available to the Committee should be spent in the most rational and structured way possible.

Growth has slowed, exports have plummeted, and unemployment has jumped, and the prevailing view has been that a blame America first strategy makes the most sense.

The common opinion is that HCV is a former drug users problem, that it s impossible to be cured and it s not so widely spread.

For hundreds of years, the prevailing orthodoxy, the accepted truth, was that God the Father, the Creator, is unchanging and therefore by definition cannot feel pain or sadness.

The general spirit is festive.

Uncritical conformity to group norms.

They don't care about what's fashionable.

(n) China, on the other hand, did not share the view held in Europe and the United States of America that treaties generally continued during the Second World War, or were at worst temporarily suspended.

We cannot ignore the view prevalent among developing countries that the United Nations large scale foray into peace keeping has been at the expense of development, in terms both of attention and of resources.

Catholicism is the country's predominant faith.

Islam is the predominant religion in Senegal.

The current trend is toward decentralization.

The conventional wisdom is, however, wrong worse, it is dangerous, for we have all seen how quickly it can take hold, distort reality, and then harden like cement.

Nevertheless, we share the view held by many Member States that the report is still far from substantive in content and lacks an assessment of the Council's work.

On that point, it continued to be the dominant view among delegations that peace keeping was a collective responsibility to be borne by all Member States under the Charter and, thus, all assessed contributions must be paid in full and on time.

The prevailing view, however, was that the criminal law provisions of the convention should apply irrespective of whether the victims had been wearing the United Nations emblem or some other identification.

The prevailing exchange rate system is lopsided.

The official dogma of all Western industrial societies.

You take the square root of that and so this is going to dominate.

We can't believe how prevalent lying is.

Debates within eurozone member states typically converge on what legal scholars call herrschende Meinung ( dominant opinion ), which, in turn, appears to reflect their countries status as creditors or debtors.

Whatever you say.

I agree with you.