Sentence examples for standoff prevailing from inspiring English sources

The standoff prevailing here since Mr. Ouattara won a presidential election in November, according to most of the international community, and Mr. Gbagbo refused to step aside has taken an increasingly violent turn.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has won his drive to strip the state's government workers of nearly all of their collective-bargaining rights, prevailing after a three-week standoff that brought tens of thousands of protesters to the Capitol and transfixed the political world.

Perhaps the prevailing climate mattered.

Is that the prevailing view?

The voters are prevailing.

And, at present, quantity is prevailing.

He added that uncertainty was still prevailing.

So far, the older generation is prevailing.

They are, for the moment, prevailing.

Take the 5/2 about the Londoners prevailing.

But they play by the prevailing rules.