Victory in example sentence

When the generals in Rangoon (Yangon) suppressed a popular uprising in 1988, overturned the NLD’s overwhelming electoral victory, shot students, and arrested the new democratically elected leaders, India’s government initially reacted as most Indians would have wanted.

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In some cases, there is a military victory of one side.

The treaty seemed to be a complete victory for Red Cloud and the Sioux.

So this alone was a huge victory.

And there were people, strategists, within the U.S. military who genuinely thought that this single device was going to spell the difference between defeat and victory when it came to the battle against the Nazis and against the Japanese.

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