Meanings of prevailing ideas in English

Civilisation isn't a matter of concrete groupings; it's a matter of prevailing ideas.

What were the prevailing ideas of civilizations and what ideas were put into practice?

How few men can go counter to prevailing ideas!

People should not be subjected to lasting reproach because they cannot emancipate themselves from prevailing ideas.

I have yielded, with multitudes around me, to prevailing ideas, taking no steps to learn their truth or error.

Those were her prevailing ideas.

They represent prevailing ideas.

The prevailing ideas being in favour of the revolution, the court, nobility, and clergy had exercised no influence over the elections.

The beauty and blessing of medical mission work will be better understood if we contrast it with prevailing ideas about medicine.

What were these " prevailing ideas" that superseded the wish of the overwhelming majority that abortion should be constitutionally banned?

There are two prevailing ideas about his place of birth, both Babylonia and Oroomiah, Persia being claimed as his native city.

If the case has attracted much attention, the juror knows the prevailing ideas as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant.

Originally, the prevailing ideas and habits of the colonists and of the Englishmen who remained at home had been substantially the same.

Remove the canker of slavery to-day, and yet the tendency to disruption and dissolution would evermore go on while prevailing ideas actuated society.

He fell back on the majestic power of prevailing ideas, on the ascetic element of the early Church, on the traditions of monastic life.