Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton was holding serious discussions about ground troops, a possibility Milosevic thought had been safely discarded. Perhaps most critical of all, the Hague war-crimes tribunal finally indicted him on May 27, placing his very life in jeopardy if he ever slipped from power. "He recognized he wouldn't prevail," says a U.S. official, and began to put out peace feelers...
Marshall never doubted that his side would prevail in the end. "You can say all you want," Marshall told a black newspaper publisher not long after Brown was decided, "but those white crackers are going to get tired of having Negro lawyers beating them every day in court." In time Marshall would persuade the court to extend the Brown principles to public accommodations ranging from public housing to beaches...
...Even though the formal appeal was unsuccessful, Nesson seems confident that justice will eventually prevail as he and Berkowitz consider other strategies...
...growing array of critics contend that the air campaign is doing too little too slowly. The allies, they warn, must fight harder if they are to prevail before NATO unity collapses under a crush of divergent political pressures. Statistically, U.S. pilots were in greater danger of dying during peacetime flights last year than while bombing Serbia last month. Too many laser-guided bombs are going astray and killing innocent civilians. Just last Friday, NATO mistakenly hit a Kosovo rebel base near the capital, Pristina. Washington is not leading the war but shying away from winning it. "If NATO wants...
...could be sued? The killers' parents are obvious targets. Many find it hard to believe the Harrises and Klebolds didn't have a clue that their kids were buying guns, making bombs and spending a year plotting the rampage. Still, the law makes it difficult to prevail in suits against parents for the acts of children. And even if the plaintiffs beat the odds, the families' assets and homeowner's insurance wouldn't go far. The school district is another possibility, if it is shown that Columbine High officials ignored signs that Harris and Klebold were a threat. Among those...