Sentence examples for set prevailing from inspiring English sources

When Serena finally broke Venus in the second set, prevailing on her seventh break point of a marathon game to take a 2-1 lead, she then lost her own serve in the next game to let Venus get back to 2-2.

Even after Vinci won the second set, prevailing in a long rally on set point, those who had witnessed many ups and downs by Williams assumed she would win.

The city comptroller, John C. Liu, whose office sets prevailing wage rates, praised the bill, saying in a statement that it would help "to ensure shared prosperity and reverse the widening wealth gap in the city".

How should our practices in risk assessment and toxicology incorporate what we have learned about the profound ways in which the ecologic setting prevailing early in life exerts effects on later neurobehavioral function?

As for efforts whose ambitions have not yet been set, the prevailing tradition in large-scale activism has for decades been that good ideas about tactics and strategy are heeded and implemented no matter from whom they originate.

An egregiously unreliable narrator, Steven sets the prevailing tone.

Szimpla Kert (Kazinczy utca 14) sets the prevailing aesthetic with "Mad Max -esque installation art and chairs culled froMax -esque trash pinstallation

He nearly lost a third in the third round against Fabio Fognini, twice going down a break in the first set before prevailing in straight sets.

It was the first time two American men had faced each other in the main draw of the French Open since 2001, but John Isner and Ryan Harrison compensated for the drought by playing deep into a fifth set, with Isner coming back from down two sets and prevailing, 5-7, 6-7 (7), 6-3, 6-1, 8-6, in 3 hours 50 minutes.

Rent is sometimes set above the prevailing market rates, and the excess amount is credited toward the purchase, almost like a forced savings plan.

This follows because the position of equilibrium in pure water is set by the prevailing temperature and pressure.