Sentence examples for fire prevailed from inspiring English sources

The negative sentiment towards wildland fire prevailed and helped to shape wildland fire management objectives throughout most of the 20th century.

Yet, at huge cost, in a cacophony of machine-gun fire, they prevailed.

A tenuous cease-fire has prevailed since early last month.

Records are tumbling daily as Australia endures the same "catastrophic" fire conditions which prevailed in rural Victoria during the 2009 infernos in which 173 people died.

A fragile cease-fire has since prevailed between Israel and Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and is now helping the Syrian government fight rebel forces.

China has insisted that the northern Myanmar region of Kokang is safe and stable after the fighting last week, in which hundreds of government troops overwhelmed an armed ethnic group, breaking a cease-fire that had prevailed for two decades.

Luckily for the under-fire safety, the Ravens prevailed in overtime 20-17.

For her part, Pingree had many fire professionals on her side, including the firefighter's union and the state's fire chief, and her bill prevailed.

George Steinbrenner was tempted a year ago, after the Yankees' unceremonious first-round exit, to fire Torre, but saner heads prevailed and Torre was allowed to manage in the last year of his contract.

Politically, the timelessness of Welty's book was defensible only in emphasizing a point that this country — in the wake of Wright's "Black Boy" — was just beginning to address; namely, that in the twentieth century parts of the South had effectively recreated conditions little better than those that had prevailed before the firing on Fort Sumter.

But typical for Iraq, confusion prevailed over who was firing at whom.