Thrashing the league leaders back at Anfield is one thing, but prevailing on occasions such as this injects proper conviction into Liverpool's increasingly persuasive title challenge.
And the governor notched victories on other issues, prevailing on lawmakers to create one of the nation's most expansive databases of DNA samples from criminals, and instituting a new and more rigorous system for evaluating schoolteachers.
"Announcing the results of the presidential election early before the official statement is unjustified and is one of the main reasons behind the division and confusion prevailing on the political scene," said the statement, read out on state TV.
Cooler heads prevailing on a serious issue in serious times.
Microsoft seemed to take little solace from prevailing on that point.
A week after prevailing on the Saudis to sit at the same table with Iran, he returned to Vienna.
We see him prevailing on polite pedestrians in Japan to pose for the camera in garish bunny masks.
Whichever side ends up prevailing on gay marriage, it's going to be a grim and ugly fight.
The two group favourites met in a fascinating semi-final last season, with Atlético prevailing on away goals.
But winning on clay is certainly a bigger challenge for Agassi than prevailing on a hard court.
The nation's Catholic bishops, unable to reverse the ruling by prevailing on the White House or Congress, have now turned to the courts, as they warned they would.
