Word: prevailingly
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...White House the issue may be whether the Administration's latest package will prevail in the face of rising congressional impatience. Outside political circles, however, a number of economic experts have another concern: that in its commendable efforts to temper protectionism on Capitol Hill, the Administration is being forced to strike worrisome compromises with some of its free-trade principles...
DECEMBER 30--Corazon Aquino is named Time magazine's "Woman of the Year," one of the planet's highest accolades. She has, Time says, singlehandedly restored the world's faith in the power of democracy to prevail over oppression...
...highly odiferous creature who wears his white stripe in front, where no enemy can see it. In the forest, confusion reigns supreme. The panthers, foxes and bears are afraid to hunt; without a stripe across the back, any small, furry animal might be a stinker. Will hunger prevail? Jones believes in a peaceable kingdom, but he is well aware of Woody Allen's aphorism that the lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb will not get much sleep. There are some tough and hilarious negotiations before the forest can guarantee the survival of the fuzziest...
...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...