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It was as if he had been struck by a hail of red Kryptonite and instantly become the Bizarro candidate, immensely strong, yet unable to prevail against the backward-beating current.
Yet understanding and tolerance among people of different faiths can and must prevail.
There is a case against Microsoft, but it is not the one you hear, and I would hate to see crude misunderstandings posing as sophisticated analysis prevail.
It is unlikely that Amar's prescription for a wholesale reinterpretation of established doctrine will soon prevail.
Were the Vice President's arguments in this case to prevail, any administration seeking to insulate its activities from oversight and public scrutiny could do so simply by assigning those activities to the Vice President or a body under the White House's direct control.