(v. t.) To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate.
(v. t.) To pass or spread through the whole extent of; to be diffused throughout.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is totally unclear to them how they can get the skills needed for a successful career.” The report, Overlooked and Left Behind, argues that “a culture of inequality between vocational and academic routes to work” pervades the education system.
(2) The microfilaments are strands of polymerized actin which form a network that pervades the neutrophil cytoplasm.
(3) Building Britain's Future startlingly admits: "A sense of unfairness pervades modern contemporary Britain.
(4) There is good reason to hope that the speculative nature which at this time pervades our bridging efforts will eventually be substituted by unequivocal facts and deductions.
(5) The chief executive of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, Paul Murphy, said the growing culture of secrecy pervading the government’s approach was disturbing.
(6) These structures pervade the cellular cords and rosette-like structures formed by immature type II pinealocytes.
(7) Examination of C. jejuni-colonized crypts by transmission electron microscopy revealed that the campylobacters freely pervaded the lumina of crypts without attachment to crypt microvilli.
(8) If they do, my hunch is that it's because their intuitions haven't kept pace with the extent that mobile technology has pervaded our lives, or with the scale of the data that outfits such as the NSA have been accumulating.
(9) Was justice itself falling prey to the menacing mood of rightwing fanaticism that has pervaded the country with the inexorable rise of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn?
(10) A debate about surveillance powers in the internet age is not best advanced by that all-pervading slogan: “nothing to hide, nothing to fear.” We cannot have a risk-free society, and it is too much to expect of the agencies or the law to deliver it.
(11) These strands form a three-dimensional lattice or mesh that pervades all parts of the cytoplasm.
(12) That Psy is promoting upmarket frocks and luxury fridges is somewhat ironic, considering Gangnam Style's lampooning of the rampant consumerism that pervades what has been described as South Korea's Beverly Hills.
(13) Quackery is currently a widespread problem that pervades all aspects of healthcare, including the treatment of learning disorders.
(14) Shock-induced drive was assumed to equally pervade all four situations; stimulus contiguity ('pairing') was present only in the DP and DPC tests; and the avoidance 'contingency' was present only in the DC and DPC paradigms.
(15) The enduring ambiguity pervades more the psychiatrist than the legal profession.
(16) The power and independence of the department chairmen and the absolute dependence on research productivity as the criterion for advancement in the academic hierarchy are pervading influences in Swedish dental education.
(17) The party conference season has done little to lift the gloom pervading the public sector, as politicians offer little to cheer staff worried about services, jobs and pensions.
(18) Nonetheless, the change in the doctor-patient relationship might merely reflect the growing indifference to people as individuals that seems to pervade our society in all service-related areas.
(19) But the message that pervades the paper is that once one is a nurse, one is a nurse forever.
(20) The upper-floor restaurants left a lot to be desired, even as the smell pervaded surrounding departments.
Prevail
Definition:
(v. i.) To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against.
(v. i.) To be in force; to have effect, power, or influence; to be predominant; to have currency or prevalence; to obtain; as, the practice prevails this day.
(v. i.) To persuade or induce; -- with on, upon, or with; as, I prevailedon him to wait.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
(2) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
(3) In 1935, Einstein challenged the prevailing interpretation of quantum theory.
(4) The probable reaction mechanisms prevailing in both cases are discussed in accordance with the low and high resolution mass spectral data presented.
(5) Of the tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, T-lymphocytes (mostly CD4+ cells) prevailed over B-lymphocytes.
(6) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
(7) It was shown that at the time of birth the noradrenaline level prevailed over the adrenaline level, but as soon as the 3rd-5th day the noradrenaline content displayed a relative reduction in both groups.
(8) Scaf criticised the Muslim Brotherhood for its premature announcement of the results and stated it was "one of the main causes of division and confusion prevailing the political arena".
(9) A popular strain of foreign policy thought has long held that the US should be guided primarily by self-interest rather than human rights concerns: hence, since the US wants its Fifth Fleet to remain in Bahrain and believes ( with good reason ) that these dictators will serve US interests far better than if popular will in these countries prevails, it is right to prop up these autocrats.
(10) Ac-MPS of the hyaluronic acid type prevail in the ground substance of the myxoid and fibroblastic mesenchyma, while the substances containing sulfuric groups predominate in the tissue matrix exhibiting fibrogenic tendencies.
(11) Histologically, the prevailing feature of the tumors was infiltrating medullary adenocarcinoma consistent with carcinoma of mammary duct origin.
(12) When adapting the insulin dose, duration and intensity of the work load, time of day, prevailing insulin levels, and the state of nutrition must be considered.
(13) Unpleasure prevailed during the symbiotic phase; aggressive energies predominated and enmeshed with the neuronal encoding, the early structuralization in both the neurophysiological and psychological meaning.
(14) Two weeks later the Colts would prevail 29-17 at Super Bowl XLI.
(15) Anticoagulation should be employed following mitral valve replacement while factors contributing to thromboembolism prevail.
(16) During the period 1977-1979, the treatment protocol recommended vaginal hysterectomy; since 1980 abdominal surgery has prevailed.
(17) The main conclusions can be summarized as follows: MFS is a predominantly axonal inflammatory neuropathy with prevailing involvement of oculomotor nerves.
(18) Marginal overhang was the prevailing type of failure (17%), recurrent caries occurred at 12% of the restorations, unacceptable proximal contact at 10%, unacceptable marginal adaptation at 8% and isthmus fractures at 2%.
(19) In those with fluctuating HBe status, there was no correlation between prevailing HBe serology and sequence.
(20) Their mean age was 61.9 years, males prevailed (82%).