The argument was close, but in the end the advocates of state power won in the Supreme Court the battle they could not win on the killing fields.

But advocates can win by standing up to the Georgia obstructionist.

This, he said, was not surprising, since the advocates of abortion rights also won their major victories through the courts.

As politicians scrambled to return its campaign contributions, advocates of limiting money in politics won enough support to force their issue to the House floor.

Whether anti-abortion advocates win or lose on the override, some Democrats are running scared.

But what the advocates won last week is free speech with a price.

Although advocates for the poor won this round, they can expect many more such battles in these welfare-cutting times.

In 1996, Ms. Lowenkron's group and other advocates won a lawsuit on behalf of mentally ill patients over the existing state rules on such experiments.

In the next few years, advocates won similar rights for women and families.

With the adoption of No Child Left Behind, advocates of testing, he said, won a battle, not the war.