And it's fair to say the law has not vanquished the tech industry's fuzzy language and logic overnight.
Sexism hasn't been vanquished, obviously, but it has splintered into more subtle, ambiguous channels.
Still, the overwhelming show of force has not exactly vanquished crime.
Then I remember that I do not pray because I do not believe, and realise that beneath this wondrous golden ceiling I have eased into another state and mystery has not been vanquished after all.
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All Ms. Quinn has ultimately done is underscore that her current problems of impulse control have a long biographical precedent, and that while she has courageously overcome two of those symptoms, she hasn't succeeded in vanquishing her temper, which has a broader range of public repercussions.
Even now, 12 years on from his England debut, and within three of Charlton's 49-goal record, the wild child in Rooney has not completely been vanquished.
This is partly because wildness in early 21st-century Britain is a hard thing to find - pushed to the margins (or so he begins by thinking), where it has not been entirely vanquished by pollution and modern farming and population growth.
A Twitter spokeswoman would not answer our specific questions about its own experience and understanding of bots and botnets on its platform, so it's not clear why it hasn't been able to totally vanquish this crypto botnet yet.
