Sentence examples for try to prevail from inspiring English sources

To hear the United States' most important military allies speak, the hope is not to wrap up the fighting before the Muslim holiday of Ramadan begins in mid-November but to try to prevail before Ramadan 2002.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said the city would try to prevail on him not to take the train and on the Braves not to let him take the train.

Virginia Tech's defense manhandled L.S.U. on the line of scrimmage, pinned the Tigers deep in their own end of the field, allowed only one conversion on 13 third-down attempts, blocked two punts and forced an inexperienced quarterback to try to prevail on the road with little self-assurance.

Perrotta's fourth book of fiction somewhat cheerfully explores the social shuffling of the meritocracy by casting a working-class student from New Jersey into Yale, where aspirations to assimilation try to prevail over a lot of baggage brought along from his father's lunch truck.

AT&T's t decision to offer The Hot Network is, above all, a bid to try to prevail against its fiercest competitors, the satellite networks.

CBS faced an enormous challenge in trying to prevail with a restraining order.

The reformers are trying to prevail over hard-liners, who are the ones pursuing nuclear weapons.

Aaron Glenn was nearly begging, trying to prevail upon a few people to plead his case to Coach Al Groh.

At a minimum, the arrest of Mr. Baradar offers a glimpse of the multilayered challenges the United States faces as it tries to prevail in Afghanistan.

"I pick my spots," Murphy told me in explaining why he did not think it was worth trying to prevail upon her to stay a Democrat.

But in the Senate you can be trying to prevail over another senator on Tuesday afternoon whose vote you know you're going to need on Wednesday afternoon for something else.