The power of Buddhism was still strong in the cities, though already declining, and Jainism, a nontheistic ascetic faith, prevailed among the merchants and manufacturers.
Republican activist Faith Loudon prevailed in the contest to face Edwards, while Del.
Things were awkward at first, but now the newcomers have been fully accepted; ties of faith have prevailed over difference of culture.At Islam Channel, a television station in London, the young sound assistants chat in Urdu, the language of their south Asian forebears, as they record an interview with Brian Paddick, a senior London policeman.
After instructing his church congregation on Sunday to pray round the clock for their political faith to prevail, Mr Paisley took his seat at the same table as Sinn Féin yesterday as the parties read out their proposals for a review of the Good Friday agreement.
But the real appeal was the magic: the sense that God, Death and the Devil were walking around in disguise, that anyone might turn out to be someone other than you thought they were (as a preview of life, not bad), that animals can talk, which children believe anyway, and that even at the bottom of the pit, courage and faith can prevail.
The point: often faith in oneself prevails over temporary obstacles.
"After years of short-term extensions, good faith bipartisan compromise prevailed," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah).
Resilience, stamina, faith and belief, prevail in these stories, against all odds.
The case has exposed social fault lines in a country of 1.3 billion people, the vast majority of them Hindu, where traditional faith practices often prevail over the liberal, secular values enshrined in the constitution.
America will work to see that this spirit prevails -– that all faiths are respected, and that bridges are built among them.
