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Though Hitler had been victorious on the battlefields of Europe, Churchill and Roosevelt were determined not only to defeat the Nazi onslaught, but also to lay the groundwork for a future of peace and democracy.
A victorious Russia would pose a potent threat to the Baltic states, with their large ethnic Russian populations.
But the victorious Allied powers later abandoned this promise, and the Kurdish people have lived under constant oppression ever since.
The emerging Palestinian consensus was torpedoed and recognition of Israel rendered irrelevant, and the radicals once again proved victorious.
But, while victorious on the battlefield, they have not been triumphant in political and economic terms.
In today's crisis, anyone who believes in Western values must hope that such politicians emerge victorious.
Only the victorious British, with their old institutions more or less intact, voiced skepticism, not so much about continental unity as about their own participation in Europe’s ambitious project.
For the victorious coalition of the Law and Justice (PiS) party and Civic Platform (PO) is torn between liberal (PO) and populist instincts (PiS).
During his victorious campaign his advisors kept his mouth shut on everything but trivialities.
From Washington, the past half-century may look like the story of a victorious Cold War against an outside enemy; but from Europe, it looks more like the story of a slow, unremitting effort to find political, economic, legal and institutional alternatives to military power as a way of tackling geo-political problems.
Clear-sighted Chinese must already see that, short of a victorious war, such dominance is impossible.
The very moment he appears on the world’s television screens, victorious and smiling, America’s image and soft power would experience something like a Copernican revolution.
For example, the victorious powers in World War I invoked the principle of self-determination, but after the dismantlement of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, the Sudetenland was incorporated into Czechoslovakia, even though its inhabitants spoke German.
Bolivia has entered a new era of mass mobilization of its long-suffering but now victorious indigenous communities.
The UN began, in 1945, as a vision shared by the leaders of the victorious Allies, who were determined to ensure that the second half of the twentieth century did not play out like the first half.
Dionysus emerges victorious, and Pentheus is ripped to shreds.
Unfortunately, regardless of which side emerges victorious, the outcome will not be good news for Turkish democracy.
The World After NovemberMADRID – On November 6, either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney will emerge victorious after an exhausting electoral race, setting the wheels in motion for the coming four years.
After World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Allies promised them a state of their own - a promise that was cynically betrayed when British and French imperial interests took precedence.
After all, when the walls had come down all over Eastern Europe in 1989 and 1990 this Alliance of Western Europe and North America had seemed victorious and, when the Soviet Union fell apart a year later, could proudly claim to be the only functioning multilateral security organization on the continent.
There is also no reason to believe (contrary to the regime’s insistence) that the Brotherhood would emerge victorious from a democratic transition.
Forty-one of the 43 victorious Hamas candidates who lived in the West Bank are now imprisoned by Israel, plus an additional ten who assumed positions in the short-lived coalition cabinet.
Such a scenario is reminiscent of the World War II vision of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who proposed that the four victorious allies – the US, the UK, China, and the Soviet Union – act as “Four Policemen,” each patrolling its own sphere of influence and negotiating with the others on world peace.
"There is," he wrote in an echo of today's globalization debates, "a certain situation of capitalistically disorganized economies, in which the higher culture is not victorious but rather loses in the existential fight with lower cultures."
The contemporary map of the Middle East was drawn by the victorious Western imperial powers, Great Britain and France, during and after WWI.
At the international level, the Nuremberg model remains available to generate further trials, though under the dubious conditions that victorious powers sometimes impose liability for crimes, such as “crimes against humanity” that were are not properly defined at the time they are committed.
Ironically, it was an advantage of the Nuremberg courts that they were staffed by the representatives of the victorious powers.
When the guns fell silent in 1945, the Europeans – even the victorious European allies – had effectively lost their sovereignty.
Yet Iran may already see itself as victorious, with the current Iraqi government friendlier than any the Iranians have ever known.
Nonetheless, the newly victorious Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has been able to make the accusation stick to free-market policies.
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