By the middle of the first century AD a less restrained taste prevailed in idealised art as in portraiture.

But as always good taste and sportsmanship prevailed.

By what right would anybody's tastes, values and standards prevail over anybody else's?

The theme of this scintillating show is the continuing impact on fashion of the elegant, extravagant 18th century, when aristocratic taste prevailed and luxury knew no bounds.

Here vain tastes prevail for golden pheasant and blue and crimson paroquet.

Hay could see that Mrs. Lincoln's expensive taste had prevailed.

After subtly mocking the jury's conservatism, Mallarme predicted that public taste for Manet's work would eventually prevail.

Today on college campuses, monolithic musical taste no longer prevails.

I longed to ask what the other two had done to disqualify themselves, but the question seemed faintly irreverent, and good taste - or lack of courage - prevailed.

By the end of the century, a taste for less elaborate designs prevailed.