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Yet understanding and tolerance among people of different faiths can and must prevail.
A few foreign rikishi --wrestlers--have become popular, but some critics charge that they prevail through sheer size rather than agility.
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.
While he was in the United States, William Dwight Whitney, America's preeminent orientalist, did all that he could to persuade Hall to remain at home, but he could not prevail.
It was also piously believed that speaking truth would always prevail over evil; language was not only a moral weapon, but in Shakespeare's fecund and often irreverent imagination, occasion for exuberant revelry: