Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less-than to choose at the time he is given a choice. Perhaps unfairly, many voters regard the alternatives in 1968 as a choice between the lesser of two (or three) evils. Even so, making a choice is imperative; obviously if one rejects a lesser evil, the greater may prevail. Thus the nonvoter is morally just as responsible for the result as if he had voted for the candidate he abhors. Edmund Burke put it well: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing...
...governing the "temporary" stationing of their troops in Czechoslovakia carried an ominous loophole. The status-of-forces clause in the treaty provided that Czechoslovak law should apply to occupying soldiers as well as citizens. But when "higher interests" were involved, previous dictates made clear, Moscow's orders would prevail...
Whoever heard of reporters dictating a newspaper's editorial policy? Or holding veto power over the hiring of an editor-in-chief? Or controlling layout? Such radical conditions prevail at Le Figaro, France's leading conservative newspaper. Its 250 reporters, columnists and sub-editors have long enjoyed these prerogatives under a special agreement with the paper's owners. But now, management wants to reassert its right to manage. To show just how they felt about that idea, Figaro's staff last week staged a one-day strike...
...vote for Humphrey or Nixon to save the country from Wallace is an unnecessary gesture that registers no protest; for even if he managed to throw the election into the House of Representatives, the Alabaman would not have the strength to see either himself or his philosophy prevail...
...depends, even more than that of a political community, upon the consent of all the governed to accept decisions reached by its constitutional processes. The consent of the dissenters depends partly upon their knowing that their views effectively entered into the process of consensus, even though they did not prevail. They must also be convinced that the opportunities for change are open and the goals and stance of the enterprise are sufficiently right for it to deserve their loytlty despite specific points of disagreement. Administrative intractability and resistance to change contribute to the breakdown of law and order...