Their continuing promotion of workers' rights runs counter to the dominant pro-business ethos of the incoming Hong Kong government.

An important new approach rejects the older consensus that liberalism was the dominant ethos.

"The dominant ethos of the state is very much working class," he said.

Despite this dominant Anglo-Catholic ethos, there is a low church Bible belt running through a few of the City of Brisbane's southern suburbs.

The nobility's landholdings remained formidable, and the dominant ethos among both officers and senior officials was still overwhelmingly sympathetic to noble privilege.

Within Khmer Rouge camps, the dominant ethos is military and the main activities are in support of the army.

One school of thought rejects the older consensus that liberalism was the dominant ethos.

The dominant ethos is that authority - in government, in business, in everything else - decides what information the public ought to know.

But I'd argue that it shouldn't be the dominant ethos that dictates how the music industry and media showcase the talent they support.

But any expression that implies an equality of failure between Giuliani and the city's dominant ethos before him ought to be regarded with suspicion.