vailing's Usage Examples:

It was occupied by the French in 1795, and from 1808 to 1813; and in 1835 and 1874 it was unavailingly besieged by the Carlists.

(5) The physiognomy given to Kheta warriors by Egyptian artists is fairly representative of the prevailing type shown in the Hittite sculptures.

This discovery of the first of the then-styled " compound radicals " exerted great influence on the prevailing views of chemical composition.

Hence throughout this season the prevailing winds are light breezes from the west and south.

boozy brits abroad " stereotype prevailing it seems Brits are becoming a more cultured lot.

Farther south, in Patagonia, the prevailing wind is westerly, in which case the Andes again " blanket " an extensive region and deprive it of rain, turning it into an arid desolate steppe.

On the right a single deep report of a cannon resounded and died away in the prevailing silence.

According to the prevailing traditions, Saul at his death had left North Israel disunited and humiliated.

Their opposition proved unavailing.

In cannel coals the prevailing constituents are the spores of cryptogamic plants, algae being rare or in many cases absent.

Cheyne worked indefatigably as a resourceful pioneer, but for many years, in view of the prevailing temper,.

The prevailing views are tacked on, as it were, to the essential doctrines of Buddhism, without being thoroughly assimilated to them, or logically incorporated with them.