Instead, the president's overconfident Harvard Law Review side, expecting a high-minded debate, prevailed.
And in a state neatly divided among Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters, no one side in the gun debate prevails for long.
Debates prevail regarding the definition of surgical talent, and how individuals with the potential to become talented surgeons can be identified and developed.
It introduces terror and intimidation, where dialogue and debate should prevail.
Alas, in the world of disease prevention, health promotion, and lifestyle as medicine, those are the very debates that prevail.
Mr. Powell lost round one of that debate, and prevailed in round two.
Only by shifting the argument altogether and changing the language of debate can sanity prevail.
Even without that debate Hunt must prevail, breaking a barrier about working that is already broken elsewhere in the fast-changing world of work.
Whenever it was, it has been undeniably difficult and rubbish being a no supporter throughout the referendum debate, even if we prevail on Thursday, which I rather think we will.
A central issue of that convention, and the attendant protest, was America's discord over a costly and deeply unpopular foreign war.Mr Buckley supported that war and, unable to prevail in debate, threatened to smash Mr Vidal's face.
