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...keep fighting and persevering, if you believe you can fight even the most powerful government in world, you will ultimately prevail, if your cause is right and just," Cochran said...
...that he'd be quickly reunited with his son, with whom he'd wait out the appeals process. Thursday's ruling suggests Juan Miguel Gonzalez may now be required to wait out the appeals process without his child. "He was encouraged to believe that by coming here he'd prevail in the end," says TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon. "But things aren't done here the way they're done in a dictatorship, and there may yet be a lot of litigation before the boy is reunited with his father. Plainly, the Cuban exile leadership are going...
...course, such predictions are based on the assumption that current conditions will prevail into the foreseeable future, and it is quite possible that this assumption is wrong. Anything that would serve to fragment the current huge human population might help re-establish the conditions necessary for future human change. Unfortunately, we would undoubtedly perceive such an event as a terrible disaster, since it would necessarily entail the disappearance of billions of human beings...
...long-term odds in their favor. Life in the waning cosmic twilight might be jejune, but it could last a long time. Consider the marshaled resources of all the natural and artificial intelligences in the observable universe over the next, say, trillion years. Which would you bet on to prevail--that level of smarts or a claim, based on 19th century thermodynamics, that they're doomed...
...whom they found suspicious without an articulable basis for that suspicion. Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia held that when a police officer actually arrests a driver for a traffic violation and then searches the vehicle, a Fourth Amendment-based motion to suppress evidence of other crimes will not prevail even if--based on an objective standard--police officers do not usually arrest people for that kind of misdemeanor...