Sentence examples for would not prevail from inspiring English sources

Dr. Kass said he feared that public wisdom would not prevail against the temptation of immortality.

"I don't see any reason why the yes vote would not prevail".

That's why the Weed and the Adams went chugging up the Combahee: so that slavery would not prevail.

It was clear by the late middle ages – across northern Europe, at least – that Aldobrandino's views would not prevail.

Mr. Cuomo suffered a bruising setback in his abortive run for governor in 2002, when he dropped out of the race after it became clear he would not prevail against H. Carl McCall in a Democratic primary.

Mr. Higgins said, though, that he believed that a New York City landlord who insisted on cash for payment of rent would not prevail in court, for two reasons.

"We probably wouldn't prevail here if we weren't eating our own dog food".

Lewis told the House panel Thursday he decided to go through with the Merrill deal because of the strongly worded reaction by the regulators, but also because he was concerned he wouldn't prevail in invoking the MAC clause and losing Merrill Lynch would be a strategic mistake.

I was fairly confident that something sinister wouldn't prevail.

These voices would surely not prevail.

If the Senate held a vote on the two issues, the Republicans would probably not prevail.