The church's predominant view of humanity seemed to be that people are bundles of desires waiting to be expressed. (religion-online.org)
The predominant view was that the strong US economy would mean that US interest rates would rise more than those in other countries (including Australia), and this contributed to a strong US dollar and falling Australian dollar. (rba.gov.au)
I can think of no time in this century, with the possible exception of the 1950s, when it was not the predominant view among cultural conservatives that things were in very bad shape indeed (and even the fifties are regarded more fondly in retrospect than they were at the time). (firstthings.com)