Sometimes the acutest of agonies are difficult to find expression in the given vocabulary: words fail but pain prevails.
Lewis Prothero: [shouting into phone] England prevails because *I* say it does!
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Those who fight against God's people are fighting against God, and fighters against God will not prevail.
The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.
Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists.
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens.
It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.
The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
If justice fails in the courtroom, it will not prevail in society. A broken Justice System does not protect the rights of all people.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Success in whatever format it prevails is founded on how deeply we master the inner workings of our minds.
Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.
The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.
No amount of expertly choreographed PR could prevail, in the end, against Armageddon. It strolled over the barricades and took its pleasure.
