Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judges, sitting as a special panel of Washington Federal District Court, declared that until then their ruling will not take effect. Accordingly, the first round of $11.7 billion in cuts decreed by Gramm-Rudman will take place on March 1. Sponsors of the law predicted that they would eventually prevail, but Constitutional Scholar Laurance Tribe asserted: "I think the Supreme Court will ultimately strike down...
...Despite all the cheating and violence, right will prevail," said Mrs. Aquino, who was escorted with the church by a wedge of private security guards. "We will pass through the barrage of lies to win this election...
...three are the same person, George Shultz, as seen at various times by different people. But the first view, fashionable for a long time after Shultz became Secretary of State in July 1982, has faded as Shultz has continued to prevail over the more voluble personalities who once seemed to have more influence. The second opinion, though it still thunders through Washington, has failed to convince anyone except the right-wingers who voice it regularly; it has fallen on notably deaf ears at the White House. And so more and more people who once belittled him as hopelessly bland...
...undermine his government by "creating insecurity, the sensation of impunity, generating the idea that democracy is incapable of defending its citizens." Over the previous six weeks, he charged, these "demented phantoms" had been responsible for 1,806 bomb warnings and 42 explosions. But, he warned, they would not prevail. The 60-day state of siege that he had imposed a week earlier, the President declared, would thwart their efforts. Some 30 minutes later, Alfonsin received a pointed response: bomb No. 43 exploded on a street in Palermo...
...using tear gas. Both weapons are employed by British troops stationed in Northern Ireland but have never been used elsewhere in Britain. Said a determined Newman: "Officers deployed in such grave situations look to me for reasonable protection. They must and will have it. Anarchy cannot be allowed to prevail...