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386 examples of Prevail in a sentence

This slow moving film preaches that strong family and religious values will help a family overcome difficulties and prevail over hardship.
Will the Black Dahila murder be solved, will the good guys prevail, will Josh Hartnett learn to act, will the scenery hold up after Aaron Echardt's chews threw the movie- acting docile one moment, then out of control in the next-- find out when you see the Black Dahlia.... on video of course, after your friend buys it.
During the movie you find yourself cheering for the good guys to prevail.
American teens prevail in the end against the entire soviet army, who have popped into existence in the heart of middle America, by means known only to John Milius.
This strategy must address both intolerable living conditions for Roma and the hostile stereotypes that prevail within majority populations, because they mutually reinforce each other.
The goal of competitors is to prevail, not preserve competition in the market.
These conditions will not prevail indefinitely, but while they do, they offer a wonderful opportunity to lay the groundwork for a global open society.
Now that the Palestinians have more proof, they are likely to change their own political tack, focusing their attention on the apartheid-like conditions that now prevail.
Past experience suggests that US and Saudi political interests are likely to prevail, at least in the short term.
For the “Dutch disease” and a rentier spirit prevail in WANA, and have affected oil-producing and non-oil-producing countries, ranging from migrant workers’ remittances and financial investment flows from the oil countries (mainly into real estate) to stock-exchange bubbles and foreign aid.
As the date of the plebiscite approached, it became apparent that they were likely to prevail.
But in this matter as well, the winner gets to judge who was the aggressor, so it is fortunate that Hitler did not prevail.
Terrorism will prevail if its mentality infects the civilized world, and if state leaders resort to terror to fight terror.
There, the extreme right threatened to shut down the US government, confirming what game theory suggests: when those who are irrationally committed to destruction if they don’t get their way confront rational individuals, the former prevail.
The Japanese and Chinese militaries, however, do not have sufficient ties to create confidence that caution will prevail.
Nonetheless, the Republicans hold a slight majority in the Senate, where each state is represented by two senators, regardless of the size of its population, because they tend to win their seats in less populous states, whereas Democrats prevail in the major coastal and Midwestern states.
Yet, scholars such as Ralph Dahrendorf and Joseph Weiler suggest that a European constitution does not make sense because a democratic constitution presupposes a paramount common identity that is absent in an EU where individual national loyalties still prevail.
After all, the Union cannot afford to permit current consumption to continue to prevail over the investment needed to ensure future prosperity.
Regional political realities, transnational interaction, and the common search for a better future should, eventually, prevail over policies geared for repression, discipline, and order.
If countries implement smart policies, building on the lessons of their most dynamic counterparts, robust and consistent growth can prevail across the emerging world.
Unfortunately, unless wiser heads prevail, that is the way the world is heading.
Whether or not Copenhagen is declared a political victory, that inescapable fact of economic life will once again prevail – and grand promises will once again go unfulfilled.
This month, the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office released an assessment of the Fund’s policy on reserve accumulation that implies that a “one size fits all” approach to reserve accumulation continues to prevail within the organization.
Eastwood has merely updated his earlier films – think The Outlaw Josey Wales or Pale Rider – with their unwavering conviction that America's god of righteousness must prevail.
If cool heads prevail, Scottish independence could proceed at a relatively low cost.
We shall persist, and our democracy shall prevail.
This time, too, in the wake of Khashoggi’s disappearance, common interests and mutual dependence will almost certainly prevail over the desire to hold the Saudis to the standards expected of other close US allies.
When a product that is cheaper and better does not prevail, that is bad news for consumers.
Sometimes reason does prevail.
Unfortunately, endorsement of this narrative emboldened the US hardliners now surrounding Trump to prevail upon him to exit the Iran nuclear deal.
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