Word: prevailingly
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...bitter mystery, the mechanical steps that led to it are perhaps easier to explain than these books suggest. He never thought a President could be forced to yield those damning tapes. He apparently believed that the big lie, repeated often enough from the sanctity of the .Oval Office, would prevail. He never understood the Coxes, Doars, Jaworskis, O'Neills, Rodinos and Siricas of this nation. They were too "different...
...Love. Enderby's position is too cleverly undermined by irony, too mined with paradox, to prevail. In The Wreck of the Deutschland (the poem, not the flick), one of the nuns at the moment of her death "christens her wild worst Best," just as Hopkins himself struggled a lifetime to confirm precisely in private pain and worldy rebuff some clear sign of God's forgiving love. Enderby attempts to perform the same sort of personal miracle. Desperately he tries to see the cruelty, vulgarity and violence not as correctable aberrations but as signs that man is still free...
...than Israel's but now saw some give in the Arab position. He said no fewer than twelve Arab leaders had told him that Israel's borders would be respected. "I'd hate to see us blow the present opportunity to move forward," he argued. "Both sides now must prevail in moderation." Chicago's main Jewish newspaper The Sentinel criticized local Jewish leaders for their "verbal lynching" of Percy in "absolute white-hot anger" and warned that eventually Percy's suggestions "would become a fact...
...seeking greater power, Mujib was plainly concerned that foreign aid, on which Bangladesh is heavily dependent, would be sharply cut if what he described as the "chaotic situation" continued to prevail. "How long will friends continue to give us food and assistance?" he asked in an emotional address explaining the change. "We must have population control. We must discipline ourselves. I do not want to lead a nation of beggars...
...committee produced little solid evidence against Bergman, but witnesses did document the dreadful conditions that prevail in many homes. A physician from Morrisania City Hospital said that patients were frequently brought to the emergency room in a coma from dehydration because no one bothered to see that they drank water. They were also dangerously debilitated by infected bedsores that developed when they were left lying neglected on coarse sheets. A nurse, who worked as an inspector for the New York City health department, reported that a nursing home had failed to notify officials of a serious diarrhea epidemic. A surprise...