Word: prevails
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...feeling cautiously optimistic that the neighborhood will prevail,” she said...
...underdogs for a reason; the Yankees are destined to prevail. Rooting for a team that cannot possibly win the World Series—a team whose best player, Ted Williams, will remain on ice for at least the remainder of the post-season—is the sort of quirk that many pick up in their college years and come to regret passionately upon graduation. But unlike a gauche tattoo or a heroin habit, Sox support can be tucked under the rug easily right now, before the shame of defeat strikes its certain blow. There’s still time...
...lives in Canada. Since gay marriage has become legal the sky hasn't fallen and the world hasn't ended. What has happened is I now enjoy the same rights and obligations if I ever choose to get married. To our friends down south, stay strong, eventually equality will prevail. Alan Trinacty Windsor, Ontario, Canada...
...restored quickly, the insurgents may find more allies within the rest of the Iraqi population. There's a race under way, to wipe out the resistance and get the country moving before the frustration boils over. And the U.S. military has only a limited amount of time to prevail...
...ringing praise and Blair's passionate, poetic salute to America before a joint session of congress, neither sounded triumphalist. The medal ceremony was postponed to a later date, and Blair and Bush spent the afternoon firing back at Iraq war skeptics and vowing to press on until they prevail - and are vindicated. The Blair line that got most media attention in his own country was his rationalization of the war in the event that no weapons of mass destruction are found in Iraq: "If we are wrong," said Blair, "we will have destroyed a threat that is at its least...