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Victory in sentence

2002 examples of Victory in a sentence

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.
But if you take into consideration that at the peak of the victory garden movement last century, 40 percent of all produce was coming from gardens.
How did this piece of 18th century Austrian aristocratic entertainment turn into the victory crow of this New York kid?
And so we're marching steadily along but we're certainly not claiming victory yet.
It wasn't until 79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by 81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.
They had heard bin Laden say that that was jihad, and claimed victory for it.
We have the knowhow, and we can take the lessons we've learned from the fight against global jihad, the victory against global jihad, and apply those to local jihad.
And they are not magnanimous in victory.
We had a victory on our hands.
I took a couple victory laps in there.
So why do we keep calling David an underdog, and why do we keep referring to his victory as improbable?
Jason Pontin: To contemporaries, Apollo wasn't only a victory of West over East in the Cold War.
And when Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, Israel feared an Iraqi victory and actively helped Iran by selling it arms and providing it with spare parts for Iran's American weaponry at a moment when Iran was very vulnerable because of an American arms embargo that Israel was more than happy to violate.
In an ideological conflict, there can be no truce, no draw, no compromise, only victory or defeat.
Maybe we need a new story, not a story about giving up the fight or of hopelessness, but rather a story of victory and triumph, of a valiant battle and, eventually, a graceful retreat, a story that acknowledges that not even the greatest general defeats every foe, that no doctor has ever succeeded in making anyone immortal, and that no wife, no matter how hard she tried, has ever stopped even the bravest, wittiest and most maddeningly lovable husband from dying when it was his time to go.
That's a victory.
The gay rights movement posits a world in which my aberrances are a victory.
The climactic moment in the battle is immortalized in the 70-meter-long Bayeux Tapestry, where an arrow striking Harold in the eye seals the Norman victory.
But his victory held an even deeper importance.
JR: The bigger the goal, the more obstacles you'll face, and on the other side of that goal is victory.
And the small victory I feel when I make it by and don't have to let go.
For example, the 2006 electoral victory of the Palestinian Hamas cannot be understood without acknowledging the group's social work.
And he puts his fists up in the most insane show of victory I've ever seen.
But the key to Communist victory wasn't weapons or stamina, it was a dirt road.
North Vietnamese victory was not determined by the battlefields, but by the trail, which was the political, strategic, and economic lynchpin.
The victory of the underdog over the favored team.
Many people love to glorify victory on the playing field, cheer for favorite teams, and play sports.
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