Word: prevailingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approached him earlier with the same idea.) Kimche had already been in touch with the Iranians through a shadowy network: Khashoggi, Manucher Ghorbanifar -- an expatriate Iranian arms dealer -- and Israeli arms merchants were all part of it. The Israeli government, said Kimche, had confidence these Iranian contacts would eventually prevail in the power struggle already beginning in Tehran over the succession to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...later would ask for arms. Any faction that came to power would first have to develop a constituency in the Iranian military and Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards, and weapons were the only currency likely to sway them. At the same time, said Kimche, the Iranians thought they could prevail on Muslim fanatics in Lebanon to release American hostages. In fact, said Kimche, the Iranians had outlined to him three separate arrangements under which the hostages might be set free...
...have a majority and probably won't for some time. But because of outside events, eventually I think we're going to prevail," former Massachusetts senator Paul E. Tsongas, a member of the Yale Corporation, told Yale students and the Associated Press after the body's most recent meeting...
...Jennifer is really a first-rate student," says Instructor in Social Studies Marta Gil, Gordon's thesis adviser. "She's very unassuming. She could really have a brilliant future in academia, but I have a feeling that her deep interest in social issues will prevail...
...iceberg have represented Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher." The Titanic is also a lure for trivia buffs: "Who led the ship's band? (Wallace Hartley.) Which smokestack was the dummy? (The fourth.)" And the tragedy furnishes social historians with a cutaway of Edwardian strata: "Should normal Class Precedence prevail," the crew wondered, "or the rule of 'Women and children first'?" Last year the Titanic's wreckage was spotted on the Atlantic floor, and speculation began anew. Could the accident have been avoided? Why did so many lifeboats leave only half filled? One fact is certain: unlike the ship, the legend refuses...