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2002 examples of Victory in a sentence

Today, however, China needs a new strategic doctrine, because the most remarkable aspect of Sri Lanka’s recent victory over the Tamil Tigers is not its overwhelming nature, but the fact that China provided President Mahinda Rajapaska with both the military supplies and diplomatic cover he needed to prosecute the war.
Rather than accept its losses, the EPRDF-run government responded with a brutal crackdown, claiming outright victory and accusing the opposition of trying to stage an insurrection.
As long as inflation is somewhere between zero and 2%, the Fed should declare victory and leave it at that.
Its weaknesses existed in victory, too, but were overlooked.
Xi’s second major victory at the 19th National Congress was the promotion of two close allies to the Politburo Standing Committee.
We do not need a victory by Trump, or by National Front leader Marine Le Pen in next year’s French presidential election, to know where the nationalism underlying the Brexit vote leads.
The ideological victory that they achieved with the Soviet Union’s demise was not permanent.
So Iliescu and his PDSR party are cruising toward a crushing victory.
The only hopeful aspect in Iliescu’s looming victory is that his opponents succeeded - just in time - in promoting growth and this may encourage the postcommunist to keep looking ahead.
China’s government appears to believe that Ma’s victory is a step in this direction.
Fearing the costs of an invasion of Gaza’s urban alleys, Israel handed a strategic victory to Hamas.
True, an Obama victory would certainly increase his own taxes, but some things – for example, the promise of a multi-cultural America – are simply more important.
At the same time, occupation denied Israel’s army the advantage of a buffer – the demilitarized zones that were the key to the 1967 victory against both Egypt and Syria.
Given the ECB’s new function as the eurozone’s banking supervisor, Frankfurt can consolidate its victory.
The “Rational” Suicide BomberHamas’s surprise victory in the Palestinian parliamentary election has made the question of who is a terrorist, and how terrorism should be tackled, more urgent than ever.
But a WTO case against, should it succeed, might be at best a Pyrrhic victory, and, at worst, a strategic blunder.
While commentators have charged that Britain capitulated to Iran and handed them a humiliating victory in obtaining the release of the 15 British Marines last week, it would appear that something more like the opposite is actually the case.
Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election made that abundantly clear.
Medicine’s goal of a glorious victory over cancer may need to yield to our recognizing that an uneasy stalemate may be the best that can be achieved.
The PD failed to win a clear victory for reasons both remote and recent.
Israel’s lightning victory recalls Hegel’s dictum about “the impotence of the winners.”
There was nothing mysterious about Israel’s victory, he claimed; it was the result of a simple concatenation of circumstances.
But the victory of June 1967 was not a license for Israel to set utterly unrealistic objectives for itself.
Indeed, international acquiescence to the situation created by Israel’s victory in 1967 proved to be extremely short-lived.
The sudden surge in young voters has called into question the long-presumed victory of the governing GNP’s likely candidate, Park Guen-hye, in the presidential election due to be held in December.
“The new presentation,” write Mikhail Danilovich and Robert Coalson, “is devoted not to the repressive forced-labor practices of the Stalin era but to the timber production at the plant and to its contribution to the Soviet victory in World War II.”
Thus, in contrast to the West’s temporizing, the strategy of Assad’s allies is clearly defined: military victory for the regime, backed by ample supplies of weapons and, in the case of Iran, Lebanese proxy troops from Hezbollah on the ground.
The Emperor’s New Climate-Change AgreementCOPENHAGEN – Dressing up failure as victory has been integral to climate-change negotiations since they started 20 years ago.
We will be told about the inner wisdom of a nation that already knew the outcome and wished, without saying so, to avoid the appearance of an excessive victory.
Contrary to popular cliché, PiS’s victory in 2005 did not result from “reform fatigue,” since there were not many reforms implemented in 2000-2005 (except for an ambitious but partially blocked attempt at fiscal consolidation).
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