Word: prevails
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...That the case became so celebrated, though, is a function of its atypicality. Relatives faced with a situation like Schiavo's, in which the patient has no living will, very often differ about what to do, physicians say, but rarely do the factions become so unmovable and determined to prevail as did Schiavo's husband and parents. Instead, one side usually gives in. Will the Schiavo case change that? Though Schiavo's parents were able to go to great lengths in challenging their son-in-law's decision to let Terri die, legal experts aren't convinced this will lead...
...women vowed to find justice for the death of their brother Robert McCartney, murdered earlier this year in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by a gang the family says included members of the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.). Robert's fiancé Bridgeen Hagans made the trip with the sisters. "Justice will prevail," Bush told them, before repeating one of his favorite post-9/11 lines: "Out of evil can come great good...
...govern themselves. He is now midair in that leap and working without a net. "All the world is witnessing your great movement of conscience," Bush said at the National Defense University. "The American people are on your side. The momentum of freedom is on your side, and freedom will prevail in Lebanon...
...family has been here between 70 and 50 years,” Hill says. “I’m fighting power and money. Why should they prevail...
Ciarelli filed the motion to dismiss the lawsuit under California’s Anti-SLAPP Law. The law is an attempt to cut-down on frivolous lawsuits since it forces plaintiffs to prove that “there is a probability that [they] will prevail on the claim” before the suit can proceed...