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The first lawsuit yielded a split decision this year, with the government winning some legal points and the company largely prevailing on tax calculations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
For weeks, raucous demonstrations gripped Buenos Aires, the country’s capital — in sharp contrast to the silence prevailing on the streets Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024
"Our experiments indicate that life could emerge from a very small set of molecules, under conditions such as those prevailing on volcanic islands on the early Earth," says Adriana Serrão, lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2024
The court found that Manson had not “demonstrated a probability of prevailing on his cause of action for defamation per se against Gore.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2023
He attributes the maintenance of evil conditions still prevailing on the docks to the "separation of the interests of wharfingers, shipowners, and contractors," to our old enemy—competition.
From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Kelly, Edmond
