Word: prevailingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During the discussion in the House of Bishops on Union with the Presbyterians, Bishop Powell of Maryland declared that 'the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Episcopal Church.' It turned out that the Bishop was overoptimistic, for the gates of hell did a good job of prevailing. The painful level of discussion in the House of Deputies was sufficient evidence -and evidence, also, that the Protestant Episcopal Church is more in need of an infusion of Presbyterian intelligence than anyone had previously suspected...
What Union Means. ". . . But if the petty sectarianism voiced by the minority statement should prevail, it would reflect upon the whole record of the Episcopal Church during the past 36 years. What Episcopalians mean by church union, and have all along meant, would be taken to be nothing less than virtual absorption of all other Christians into the Episcopal Church...
...Escape? After explaining that escape was cut off, he asked the merchants to let sweet reason prevail. After all, the teamsters had already organized the big chain grocers. By staying open at all hours and paying less wages, the independents were undercutting. It was the union's bounden duty, said Cowboy Hoffa, to remedy this inequity. The union had suffered too: only 150 union men were hauling goods from wholesaler to retailer as compared to a prewar total of 550. Was this fair to the returned veteran? Finally Hoffa held out a handful of alfalfa. Store owners would...
...minutes she stood silently facing the wooden cross, then walked to a microphone. "We are looking forward to a better world to come." The words were clear and steady. "May the same unselfish and unflinching spirit of those who fell here prevail in the rebuilding of The Netherlands...
Conservative Critic Kenyon Cox sounded a brave but ineffectual clarion: "Believing, as I do, that there are still commandments in art as in morals, and still laws in art as in physics, I have no fear that this kind of art will prevail, or even that it can long endure...