Word: prevailingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
INTRODUCE A NATIONAL TRANSPORT POLICY. Such a policy should equalize subsidies and taxes among various forms of transportation and let the most efficient form prevail. A first priority should be removal of the legal barriers to creation of integrated transportation companies that could own railroads, airlines and truck lines, and move goods and people in the most economic manner. The fragmentation of transport today is costly. A shipper should be free to turn his goods over to, say, the Land-Sea-Air Transport Co., rather than having to negotiate separately with airlines, railroads, truckers...
...Electoral College would be abolished and the candidate who received the most votes would be the President. If no one got more than 40%-a situation that has happened only once in U.S. history*-there would be a runoff between the two who ranked highest. Majority will would always prevail, and a Wallace-like spoiler could no longer threaten to disrupt the system. In practice, however, things might not prove to be quite so simple. As the measure (which, if approved, would still have to be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures) passes to the Senate floor, opponents...
...backed by a majority of Americans, wherever they are concentrated, he deserves election. Ideally, he should be the choice of both the people as a whole and of the various geographical regions. But if the two do not coincide, as sometimes happens, most Americans would probably prefer that majority prevail over geography. After all, the Governor of a state, argue the Bayh defenders, does not need to have a majority of the counties to win election; he needs only a majority of the people...
...specific cues, in which the government sets policy. That climate determines how well the ministry party pulls together on crucial issues. Crossman's focus would distort the decision-making process: consensus is needed in the party, coercion in the nation. He underestimates the multiple centers of power which prevail in a pluralist democratic electorate...
...distinctly less savage Act II seems almost bucolic, as Behan serves out his sentence on a "borstal," a kind of reform school. Here, boyish camaraderie and the spirit of barracks-room pranks prevail, so that Behan feels a wrenching, if temporary, sadness when the time comes for his release...