"A strategy from Day 1 of patient, honest and persistent attempts at negotiation ultimately prevailed."

But software rivals question whether Microsoft's traditional strategy will prevail as more software is delivered as a service over the Internet.

That strategy prevails at the network news organizations as well.

The answer: Bankers can offer detailed knowledge of an industry's players and share insight about what corporate strategy will prevail in the years ahead.

Ms. Grocholski would not estimate how much in royalties the company stood to gain if its strategy prevailed.

A few miles away, at the McAllen Medical Center, where care for indigents costs the hospital up to $1 million a month, a different strategy prevails.

Each believed his strategy would prevail, but which explorer won?

The big questions were who would be in charge and whose strategy would prevail.

He further concludes that Black's strategy of defending his way into an advantageous endgame should prevail.

In an eternal trial, this strategy must inevitably prevail.