prevailing

cooler heads prevail

Calm people, thoughts, or actions triumph in the end. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed in our fight against the school board, and we were able to reach a compromise.
See also: cooler, head, prevail

prevail (up)on (one) to (do something)

To try to persuade, appeal to, or influence one to do something. We've prevailed upon members of congress to introduce legislation that will protect our citizens' jobs. I will prevail on him to speak at the assembly.
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prevail against (someone or something)

To overcome and succeed against someone or something. I believe as strongly today as I did when I was younger that love will always prevail against hate in the long run. No one expected our team to prevail against the defending champions, but we found it in ourselves to win.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cooler heads prevail

Fig. the ideas or influence of less emotional people prevail. (Used of a tense situation.) One hopes that cooler heads will prevail and soon everything will calm down.
See also: cooler, head, prevail
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • cooler
  • cooler heads prevail
  • prevail
  • cooler heads will prevail
  • reason with
  • reason with (one)
  • within walking distance
  • (with)in walking distance (of someone or something)
  • luck out of
  • luck out of (something)
References in periodicals archive
(17) See Servicios Comerciales Andinos, S.A., 145 F.3d at 480-481; see also San Lucio, S.r.l., 2009 WL 1010981 (both explaining that the foreign prevailing party attorneys' fees under Peruvian and Italian law provide numerous exemptions and defenses to awarding the prevailing party its attorneys' fees).
The report outlines the crux of the issue as follows: "If the resultant prevailing wage rates are too high, they potentially cost the federal government and taxpayers more for publicly funded construction projects or, if too low, they cost workers in compensation."
When prevailing wage rates increase the cost of public projects by 30 percent to 40 percent for no added benefit, why continue it?
Today 31 states and the District of Columbia enforce prevailing wage laws.
The version of the Prevailing Wage Act applicable to the Ha fner matter defined "public works" to mean "all fixed works constructed by any public body, other than work done directly by any public utility company, whether or not done under public supervision or direction, or paid for wholly or in part out of public funds." The term specifically includes all projects financed in whole or in part by certain funds created by statute or bonds issued pursuant to certain statutes.
The report also recommends that the Wage and Hour Division analyze data about violations of the prevailing wage law to look for patterns that would help in enforcement.
To qualify as a prevailing party, taxpayers must not have unreasonably protracted the proceedings, and must have exhausted their administrative remedies.
GLAA, however, called the piece "a dehumanizing (or at best disrespectful) characterization," citing the rifle of the piece as evidence that it sanctioned "adherence to prevailing misconceptions about gender."
2 (1998) (providing exception to prevailing wage law for certain "commercial establishments").
This report examines "prevailing wage" and school construction costs in Washington state by first examining 1985 through 1999 data on the state's school construction financing levels, the percentage of local share of funding, comparisons of average actual square foot cost versus the state's area cost allowance, and bond election successes versus failures by calendar year.
The company's probability of prevailing was just a few percentage points greater with the testimony than without it.
While giving a conspectus of more than fifty signal African American artists born before 1925, it treats the relation of their work to the prevailing artistic, social, and political atmosphere both in the United States and abroad.
Baker & McKenzie, the trial court in San Francisco awarded Rena Weeks $1.8 million in attorneys' fees--1.7 times the actual hours her lawyers spent on the case multiplied by a prevailing hourly rate--even though the jury awarded her only $50,000 in compensatory damages.
Summary: Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Aug 17 (ANI): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Saturday said that the danger of economic slowdown was looming large over India and urged the Centre to take serious note of the prevailing economic condition.
Mendoza signs executive order to focus on prevailing wage