Word: prevailing
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...union that has taken a heavy poll over the past 15 or 20 years. But it is far from clear unions should pour everything they has into the same battle. In any such control the side with the biggest budget- with the power of goodness and light going to prevail. The mostly important thing in the battles to come, as even the solidarity of workers in the same union and between unions. Chavez should call for strikes, for second strikes, and for hot--cargoing, and mind the law (the latter two are illegal California). If it hurts the to enough...
...quite possible that John Paul II, who is only 64, will see Catholicism into the third millennium, a calendar point to which he often refers. He looks to that day mindful of the words of Jesus Christ to St. Peter that the powers of death and hell will not prevail against the church, and convinced that his own program of consolidation will help to secure that promise...
That is a prospect that the superpowers faced once before and decided to avoid. They realized in the early '70s that virtually no matter what they did to defend themselves, in the end offense would always prevail. That fact seemed built into the sheer destructiveness of nuclear weapons and the relative ease with which one side could proliferate its offenses in order to overwhelm the other side's defenses...
...more tepid meeting, in 1785, although Benjamin lived five years more. The collision, Randall theorizes, was not merely temperamental but genetic. Philosophically, Benjamin the pragmatist and William the stiff-necked legalist could never meet on common ground. More important, both men shared "the single-minded Franklin drive to prevail no matter what the cost." The cost was prohibitive. Perhaps it is just as well that Benjamin is not beside George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on the slopes of Mount Rushmore, after...
...Kissinger group on Central America) that did extremely useful work and produced sound, generally centrist recommendations, which by no reasonable standard could be described as weak. Despite recent, markedly pacific gestures from the Administration, it remains to be seen whether, in the second term, such centrist policies will prevail or whether the right-wing "true believers" will succeed in reasserting the ideological superhard line. On the answer depends the possibility of reaching a new national consensus on foreign and defense policy...