Sentence examples for could prevail on from inspiring English sources

Also, that his one-handed backhand could prevail on the clay over the greater precision of the Djokovic two-hander, only confirms his remarkable talent.

Pressed on whether he believed he could prevail on this issue, Joyce said: "Yeah, I do.

Negotiations failed then to get off the ground because each side believed it could prevail on the battlefield.

"It's pretty difficult to imagine a way in which a state could prevail on many of these".

He used his authority to place the House in suspended animation for almost three hours until he could prevail on a handful of members to drop their opposition to the measure.

The slender 2010 Tory majority of 1,951 in Corby means that Labour could prevail on a tiny swing of 2%, about half of what it would need to overtake the Tories in the nationwide popular vote.

Orthodoxy contended that no candidate could prevail by trampling on so many democratic norms, among them threatening to lock up his opponent if he won and refusing to concede defeat if he lost.

While Mrs. Clinton's campaign continued to make a case that she could prevail, Mr. Obama seized on the results from Democratic contests in Kentucky and Oregon to move into a new phase of the campaign in which he will face different challenges.

In Monday's ruling, Rakoff said he remained skeptical that Picard could prevail at trial on the question of whether the men's conduct met the legal standard of willful blindness, a threshold that must be established for the jury to award the $303 million that will be at stake in the trial.

But I think it could prevail if it was brought on for the 2012-2013 seandn and moved to a less deathly time-slot.

But if the opinions that Merrill's analysts gave did not reflect their true views, as Mr. Spitzer contended, customers who lost money on those stocks could prevail in court, securities lawyers said.