He began the 90's using his boxing skills to prevail in the used-car import business.
The N.B.A., unlike the N.H.L. or Major League Baseball, is a league in which skill tends to prevail.
Blum's greatest strength is in organisation: finding suitable (and some not so suitable) plaintiffs, raising funds, and assembling legal teams with the skill and ideological commitment to prevail at all levels of the judicial system.
The Army has created a concept called "multi-domain operations" that captures the complexity of future battle spaces, and dictates the skills that will be needed to prevail.
"None of this would have worked without the leadership skills and organizational skills and sense of identity in Perth Amboy to prevail over the countervailing electorate to pull this off," Ms. Reed said.
Tony Trabert, who won five Grand Slam titles in the 1950s, praised Connolly's skills and competitive instincts but questioned her ability to prevail today.
Aristotle, too, presupposed and maintained the same division between truth, which was knowable to varying degrees of certainty, and verbal skills, which for Aristotle were primarily useful in assisting truth to prevail in a controversy.
Indeed, to prevail in Afghanistan, General Petraeus will need all of his skills -- and a dose of good fortune at least as big as the one he received in Iraq.
This traditional curriculum approach continues to prevail even in such supposedly leading-edge initiatives as the "21st century skills" movement (Johnson [2009]).
Now it is not at all clear how Governor Romney hopes to prevail over the President's combination of good judgment, discerning listening and diplomatic skills and capable assisting personnel.
For their part, the Democrats let Obama carry the ball, getting away with it because of his skill and command of the details but finally showing the passion that fuels their cause if it is to prevail.
