Word: prevailing
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...limits to free speech. "Defendants cross the line when it can be shown that their speech encourages, incites and facilitates violence," says Cohen. "So the more Planned Parenthood can show the site is designed to encourage acts of violence against doctors, the more likely it is the group can prevail." But that is a high evidentiary burden to meet, particularly in a legal system that gives strong preference to the free dissemination of information. Whichever way this case goes, it is likely to become a landmark, and may ultimately have to be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court...
...feet and was nearly killed by a storm in the South Pacific during his last ballooning attempt. Shipping traffic gets pretty sparse in the vast reaches of the Pacific, and no one wants to find out how long it would take to be rescued. But if current conditions prevail for the next 12 to 24 hours, everything should be fine, according to the crew. One Donovan song they don't want to be singing is "Atlantis...
...Politics is not perfect. There are injustices," he says. "You don't win everything all the time. The good does not always prevail...
...proposing that we make all female heroines She-Ra-type characters or eliminate fashion shows, but I am advocating a change of mindset. We cannot expect the change to come only from men, so women must be pro-active. The stereotypes that prevail in the minds of many men will not fade until women call their bluff. This change will not come from the courts or Congress. Instead of bemoaning our situation, women must convince men that we are more than Barbies and that we abhor the Barbie treatment. And men must acknowledge the rueful truth: Barbie is just...
...reform may find their actions have the opposite effect. Says Dowell: "A new uprising could actually frighten the military into thinking the situation is so unstable that they should be tightening their control rather than opening up to new reforms." And in Indonesia, the military's opinion tends to prevail...