The phrase
"to carry the day" means to win or achieve victory in a particular situation or argument.
Full definition
Unfortunately, those who voted early by mail, before the information was presented
carried the day for the «yes» side.
Thankfully, the female perspective, fully realized characters, and strong script
carry the day as the film reaches for and achieves a lasting impact.
It has a roomy interior and also includes adjustable shoulder strap making it comfortable to
carry all day long as it offers maximum comfort.
An appellant's counsel need to be mindful of this and not simply assume that strong substantive legal arguments with good facts will
carry the day on appeal.
The politics of gesture and cheap
affiliation carried the day — right up to the point where they met the politics of cynical preparation.
In the interim, refinancing will have to
carry the day for commercial mortgage lenders.
As babies these children were
carried all day long as part of the natural and loving parenting practiced in their culture.
Despite the theological appeal of socialism, it did
not carry the day in Christian thought.
That principle will undoubtedly come under severe strain, but it may
still carry the day for Ed Miliband.
It's as if they are aware of how thin and shallow their popular support is, so they are going for broke in the hope
of carrying the day through sheer chutzpah.
It would be nice if completely rational ones
always carried the day, but that's how things work in the world as we'd like it to be, not in the world as it is.
FO'W's previously mentioned rejiggering of the top 10 for maximum SECage and vindictive anti-ACC bias also
carries the day here.
I think we're agreed on the first point, and it's my hope that, even if no other pro-LPP argument
carries the day at Convocation next month, the fact that no other proposed solution is even on the drawing board right now would motivate many Benchers to give the Program an extra lifeline.
And ultimately with Windows 8 approaching, that's really going to be
what carries the day for Microsoft for awhile.
But where Dante's cynicism
ultimately carried the day over Spielberg's piousness in Gremlins, Explorers remains a hopelessly schizophrenic film, obscenely eager to compromise its own originality.
If a new leader were to arise elsewhere bent on world domination, would an effort to convert a shrinking industrial base to military use be sufficient to
carry the day against such a determined enemy?
Even stronger is the aura of decency that Asomugha conveys; his soft - spoken line readings are full of slow - burning conviction in justice
eventually carrying the day.
While Food, Inc. has quickly become required viewing for any health - conscious American, the thinking here is that the tale of abused dolphins will
carry the day over abused chickens and cows.
irrespective of
who carries the day tomorrow, we will get a chance to see the better of the two managers from the touchline.....
Phillips
carries the day by keeping Road Trip just a cut above the typical, but it goes without saying: your mileage may vary.
To
help carry the day with shareholders, Apple has enlisted the help of an organization that had long been critical of the company's governance practices: CalPERS, or the California Public Employees» Retirement System.
He is not sanguine
about carrying the day with that argument, but he is convinced that the self - acknowledged shambles of the Supreme Court's religion clause decisions means that the days of secular individualism are numbered.
On primary night in September, Noble handed Gallo a stinging 880 - 668 defeat and One Kingston
candidates carried the day in every ward where they competed.
«I'm going to believe... even though the other side will have much more money, our message will be strong enough to
carry the day again,» he said during an interview with the Review following his decision to run again.
The quality of sound during calls is excellent, but the Google Nexus 6P still
carries the day when it comes to stereo speakers.
Let's see if stores like GameStop will
carry this Day One Edition, which is very likely to happen.
For most homes with «fibre broadband,» the fibre optic cables only reach the end of a street, and slower copper
wires carry the day the rest of the way.
I agree that those things have
carried that day Ken, but the sad fact is the vast majority of this country still clings to their god myth.
He acknowledges that radical deists like Thomas Paine played a pivotal role but points out that their religious beliefs did not
necessarily carry the day.
The author is clearly troubled by the 1960s and 70s, which he identifies as the time when «the
heretics carried the day completely.»
Don't you wish, Ryan, that we would be grown up enough to let this obvious, sensible
point carry the day!?
Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no
means carried the day.
It is that when things get tight, expediency and people - pleasing usually carry the day
u can't count on unproven reserves to
carry the day 1st they'd appear rusty and it will take em Time to settle as they would only be starting to try out playing professionally And there really is no Time
Why does their
underachieving carry the day for you in your reply to THUND3RSTRUCK instead of supporting his comments about how positive the developments were for the Celtics in this game?