Some readers think Tolkien indicates evil will prevail, while others say he's optimistic about the ultimate victory of good.

Yet if God could only counter Satan by cheating Himself, He would become evil, and evil would still prevail.

When dramatists start to be thrilled and shaken by the reflection that fate, chance and evil can prevail, when they are moved to observe that we do not always manage or desire those difficult human choices, then happy endings are a falsity.

And he says that means sin and evil prevail.

Backed with the barks of The Shadow's automatics, it had given gangsters warning that their evil could not prevail.

For behold, no such evil shall ever prevail against the gods of Egypt and their chosen King and Queen.

Maybe it had all been part of the blessing Flinthawk had bestowed on their town so many years ago, promising that no evil would ever prevail here.

He saw himself as a wise and benign deity, presiding over his kingdom and seeing to it that evil did not always prevail; a hollow symbolism of course and anyway he rather liked hemp agrimony and ground ivy.

The film concludes with the people seated round the table agreeing that so long as the horla - which they believe to be a figment of Simon's imagination - exists in the hearts of Man, evil will prevail.

With a very strong sense of justice, she believes that evil will never prevail, which is why she became a ghost sweeper in the first place.