carry the day
Example Sentences
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Critics have said voting recommendations from ISS and Glass Lewis often carry the day, forcing boards to follow pay and governance practices they might otherwise eschew.
Should Hamid’s righteous fury or Vahid’s rationality carry the day?
From Los Angeles Times
When they arrived at the Supreme Court in 2005, the arguments they advanced in the 1980s would carry the day — not because things had changed in the South, but because the arena and the players shifted from Congress and the White House into the courts.
From Salon
AI stocks implies that it’s a given that they will carry the day.
From Barron's
“We’re holding out to make Republicans fund health care priorities they oppose” is an argument that won’t carry the day in most fora.
From Slate
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