Word: prevailingly
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Those who think issues should prevail in politics deplore any emphasis on personality. Yet personality and character matter, because they suggest how a President would respond in a crisis, or whether he would dare to do the unpopular. Nowadays conversations about candidates turn less on specific issues than on judgments of them as tough-minded, unfair, soft, impetuous, cautious, shrewd, stubborn, dangerous. When with trick or trap questions television interviewers try to test how a challenger would react under pressure, the questioners often end up appearing overbearing and rude. Far from being a diversion from a sensible discussion...
BARRETT IS AMONG a daring group of young liberal Democrats who are strenuously campaigning for substantive rules reforms aimed at more than just the downfall of Thomas McGee. They hope to reshape the entire power structure and old-style politics that prevail on Beacon Hill. To that end, they have joined forces with Keverian in his struggle with McGee, despite the fact that for years the former Majority Leader backed the Spealter's opposition to any form of procedural codification. For then reformers, beat on change within the party above all, the cause celebre created by Keverian's challenge...
...finance, Juliet, with child. Claudio's sister, Isabella, pleads in vain for her brother's life. Angelo in return displays a lack of pity which proves all the more hidcous when his own unbridled lust is uncovered. In the end, Christian mercy and the "natural order" of life prevail over the "artificial" systems of government or morals...
...feel defeated, but the ultimate battle is not with PUC," she said. "It's with the attitudes that prevail throughout the community that condone pornography." --The Daily Pennsylvanian
...other candidate offers the broad and balanced experience of Mondale. He has served in state government as attorney general and as U.S. Senator and Vice President. While he did not always prevail in the private councils of the Carter Administration, his was the most active vice presidency in history...