the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > be permanent [verb (intransitive)] > by prevailing (2)
to hold the field: to maintain one's ground (originally on a field of battle); to succeed in not being displaced or superseded.
intransitive. To be prevalent, customary, or established; to be in force or in vogue; to hold good; to subsist or exist; to be the case.