Sentence examples for first prevailed from inspiring English sources

America First prevailed over considerations of character.

Yet he managed to turn the controversy into a clash of generations, in which he at first prevailed.

Their first, last year, was defeated 18 to 3. Workers said the owner, Yeong Shim, and his managers had at first prevailed by offering higher wages and other concessions, but then did not completely follow through.

Loeb maintained a 10-second cushion over the field on Saturday, the final day of competition, as Loeb, a Frenchman, became the first non-Scandinavian driver to win the rally twice; he first prevailed there in 2008.

'He was just so happy we were making the film, he wouldn't have cared if we'd shown him in a barn humping farmyard animals.' De Niro had been trying to persuade Scorsese that they should make the film together, and had first prevailed upon Mardik Martin - who co-wrote Mean Streets and New York, New York - to bash out a draft in 1977.

One can imagine that in the Darwinian conditions of Arabian life where Islam first prevailed and then was later repeatedly reinforced, by other warrior races from elsewhere down the centuries, right up to Saudi Wahhabism, rumors of females running loose denoted weakness in the tribe.

Still, he must first prevail in a four-way primary in the dog days of summer.

In order to prevail in the ideological argument over abortion, she must first prevail in the strategic argument about whether the issue can help her candidates at election time.

Roughly speaking, the first prevails in the region from Senegal to Northern Cameroon while the second characterizes most of the areas corresponding to Southern Cameroon, Gabon and Congo.

But Xavier, which is seeded third, prevailed over the 14th-seeded Trojans, and will face Maryland on Sunday.

In the array of cries and sudden conjunctions of two or more periodicities, intervals of minor seconds, of diminished and augmented sevenths, prevailed".