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When then US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers tried to change the Bank’s Decennial report on poverty – to downgrade concerns about insecurity and empowerment and to focus more narrowly on income – the Bank prevailed.

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Because of the Internet, the truth prevailed and everyone knew the truth.

If the death rate in tribal warfare had prevailed during the 20th century, there would have been two billion deaths rather than 100 million.

When Iran's ideological impulses collided with its strategic interests, the strategic interests always prevailed.

Our project was a shock for many Russians, who used to think that our country has always been an autocratic empire and the ideas of freedom and democracy could never have prevailed, just because democracy was not our destiny.

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