Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, Daniel firmly believes that the Crimson will prevail at the Eastern Seaboard Championships this Thrsday through Saturday at Penn...
...problem is largely age--but not so much biologically as rhetorically and ideologically. He speaks from a creaking, World War II perspective; his rhetoric has a rusty edge to it--broadcast from a different, simpler day when things didn't insist on being complicated. In New Hampshire, it may prevail but in the real world, it is losing its appeal...
...crisis in East-West relations created by the Soviet conquest of Afghanistan. Solzhenitsyn argues that Afghanistan is merely the latest demonstration of the U.S.S.R.s insatiable desire for world conquest. As in his grim 1978 Harvard commencement address, he chides the West for weakness. But the West may yet prevail, he says, if it will recognize that Communism and the people oppressed by it are not one and the same...
...Public Law 96-8) it is stated that "...the preservation and enhancement of the human rights of all people in Taiwan are hereby affirmed as objectives of the United States". We suggest that, in the spirit of the Taiwan Relations Act, the U.S. Government should take immediate steps to prevail upon the governing authority in Taiwan to release the members of the democratic opposition. If the Taiwan authority decides not to release the opposition leaders, then the United States should consider suspension of the $280 million arms sale to Taiwan...
...Kandahar and in the desert wastes west of Herat and Farah. Concluded a Western observer: "The Soviet plan seems to be to secure the capital and seal the borders. If escape routes to Iran and Pakistan are cut, I am sure they are confident that eventually they will prevail over the insurgents through superior force of arms...