Sentence examples for unable to prevail from inspiring English sources

Finally, unable to prevail over the federals, Stuart withdrew and continued his ride toward Gettysburg.

Ukraine's government has survived a stormy parliamentary session, in which opposition forces, including heavyweight boxer Vitali Klitschko, were unable to prevail in a no-confidence vote.

They are like all of us: unable to prevail against our arch-enemy Life!"This wry arch-enemy LifeaThisude persisted through 21 more graphic novels (Mr Eisner's phrase caught on) and coloured those of many of his successors, too.

A central issue of that convention, and the attendant protest, was America's  discord over a costly and deeply unpopular foreign war.Mr Buckley supported that war and, unable to prevail in debate, threatened to smash Mr Vidal's face.

But the die-hards may be unable to prevail, at least partly because hard-liners at the two companies differ sharply on just how they would handle the regulatory challenges.

And what could be more satisfying than to show them, the world and ourselves that barbarity was unable to prevail over civilization, and madness was unable to shake the basic sanity of our system of justice.

But the group was unable to obtain minority business certification, and Intralot again prevailed.

Unable at first to prevail amid mass indignation at the fire and shocking revelations about working conditions in the city and state, they were soon back in the saddle and able to halt, hamstring or reverse liberal initiatives.

"They are unable to run," he mused.

At the levels of poverty that are all too likely to prevail, the poorer people will be unable to afford anything else.

The teams were unable to be separated throughout 30 minutes of extra time only for the Sydneysiders to prevail 3-1 in a penalty shootout.