Word: prevails
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Which does not by any means ensure that the commonwealth will prevail, or even get itself truly organized. Its founding charter is not much more than a vaguely worded statement of intent. Its members must now actually define the policies they will pursue and form mechanisms to ensure that they really are coordinated. The alliance -- it is not really a state -- was not even a week old before its first potentially serious fissure appeared. While Yeltsin assured Soviet military leaders that the armed forces would remain under unified command, Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk proclaimed that all army units...
Gregg predicts that Buchanan will get "a healthy protest vote" and that "others will show their upset by staying home on Election Day." But he is nonetheless confident that Bush will prevail because "there's no serious alternative." If there were, says Edward Dupont, the Republican state-senate president, "we might well have a different story...
...impulse to defend oneself when attacked is not Wasinger's privilege alone, however much such double-standardism and skewed reasoning may prevail in his and his cronies' attempts to promote the view of all gay peoples as deeply troubled and more deeply troubling...
...activists on both sides--the editors of Peninsula and gay and lesbian leaders--claimed victory this week, saying that their views will prevail...
...enjoyed wielding it not as a narrow-minded member of the Communist apparat but with a much larger purpose. He had a great plan which none of the political leaders or analysts around the world could even imagine: Gorbachev has envisioned a world in which tolerance and cooperation would prevail over mistrust and hatred...