Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...permit discussion "without the one group having the right to dominate the others." To those familiar with the serpentine convolutions of Afrikaner rhetoric, the message seemed plain: racial groups should keep to themselves on matters relating to their own welfare, but on issues of national concern, white dominance would prevail...
...Crimson does prevail today, Restic will tie John Yovicsin for the school career wins record of 78. The 15-year mentor would also begin his quest for a fifth Ivy League title, an honor Harvard last won two years ago. Restic is clearly confident: "Going into the season," he predicts, "you have to pick yourself first...
...This was a defendant's verdict. The libel claim did not prevail"--Victor A. Kovner, chairman of the New York City bar association's communications law committee...
Should they prevail, adherents would still have a problem. The formula for MDMA is available to anyone and cannot be repatented. Without the assurance of profits from exclusive production, no pharmaceutical company is likely to invest the millions of dollars it takes to test any drug for Government approval. Notes San Francisco Psychiatrist Jack Downing: "MDMA is an orphan that has nobody bidding to be its parent...
Most experts in the region expect that the insurgents will eventually prevail in an all-out confrontation with the army. Should the guerrillas effectively seize control of the north of the island, Jayawardene might be forced to step down in favor of a government more sympathetic to Tamil grievances. "The initiative now lies with the forces of violence," says a Sri Lankan colonel. "We would be stupid not to admit that they have the strength to do what they want." But Western analysts also suspect that if the Tigers, whose politics range from Marxism to Tamil nationalism, do manage...