Word: prevailingly
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...says something about true believing, and about the ability to ignore or reject evidence to the contrary. And it raises the question, as the House debate on impeachment draws near, of whether this sizable segment of opinion represents a danger to the public tranquillity if its views do not prevail...
...attention I insisted on a full investigation and prosecution of those guilty. I am firmly convinced that the record, in its entirety, does not justify the extreme step of impeachment and removal of a president. I trust that as the constitutional process goes forward, this perspective will prevail...
Most White House officials still insist that in the end the President's position will prevail and he will serve out his term. But the events of last week left many with a feeling that the situation was getting dangerously out of hand...
...thought their judgment on particular stories was skewed by political loyalties. ("A good journalist is an unreliable ally to any cause he believes in, as his friends in public life soon learn.") His relationship with TIME'S founder, Henry Luce, was warm, close and difficult. "He wanted to prevail," Griffith recalls, "but respected independence, disliked trimmers and was bored by those whose opinions suspiciously echoed his ... He was something like a tennis player who wants a victory, but only after a hard-fought match." Griffith had some good matches with Luce and won his share...
...seats or orchestra. Most of the time, economic inequality implies no final social judgments. If there is an implied link between money and merit, Americans are too shrewd to make the comparison absolute. Still, "My money is as good as his" is accepted American doctrine. Where it does not prevail, as in country-club memberships but even more in discriminatory housing, the contrary practice is usually covert, generally awkward, often shamefaced and sometimes illegal. Yet even though the phrase has the required democratic ring, it usually means asserting a common right to spend to achieve an unequal advantage...