Sentence examples for desire prevailed from inspiring English sources

Donovan again showed that he is an elite international player, delivering three goals in four matches, epitomizing the spirit of a team whose desire prevailed even when tactics were deficient.

As significant as the distance of Jones's victory was her grace under pressure and fierce desire to prevail.

Doesn't it positively shun the ego-driven desire to prevail over our critics and the prejudicial urge to support our social values (like opposition to the death penalty)?

At hooker, I'm going for Uli Schmidt, 17 times a Springbok from 1986 to 1994 and a superb hooker technically as well as being a player with a terrific desire to prevail.

Martin visits the painter out of a vague desire to prevail morally and ends up chastened instead -- forced to acknowledge, in the beauty of the man's portraiture, his own failure to love his wife.

We have to work, for the vision we desire, to prevail.

Gaining admission to medical school is highly competitive: pre-medical education has been described as "a series of obstacles to be overcome on the way to the elusive goal of medical school admission" [ 19], with applicants possessing "a fiercely contentious desire to prevail over others, and at all costs get into this or that or any medical school" [ 25].

Nixon's retaliation against North Vietnam prompted speculation that the U.S.S.R. would cancel the planned summit meeting, but Soviet desire for détente prevailed.

And one main species of desire that I desire to see prevail in general, if not in every instance, is that which is based on true or at least rational belief.

In addition to their formal ebullience, so-called naïve efforts convey the raw desire for art that prevailed in the early years of this country, when museums and art academies were virtually nonexistent.

It seems that the obstetric healthcare model, the doctor-patient relationship, the maternal desire, and medical factors prevailed over socioeconomic and demographic characteristics.