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Victory in sentence

2002 examples of Victory in a sentence

In the short term, a little hypocrisy may seem like a small price to pay for a quick victory.
Barak the HealerTEL AVIV: The landslide victory of the leader of the Labour Party, General Ehud Barak, in the May 17th elections in Israel means not only a new government and a new foreign policy.
It was this coalition, based on the politics of inclusion, which gave Barak his impressive victory: while Netanyahu won the 1996 election by a margin of 0.5%, Barak won this time by a margin of about 10%.
One might argue that the international community’s refusal to recognize Hamas’s victory when it came to power in an election in 2006 stymied the movement’s potential for moderation.
A victory for Yanukovych now may be the last free vote Ukraine sees for a long time.
During Boris Yeltsin’s shambolic presidency in the 1990s, the West did not follow Winston Churchill’s dictum: “In victory, magnanimity.”
So, far from seeking a fair peace deal between the two parties, Trump has effectively declared victory for Israel – and instructed the Palestinians to accept defeat quietly.
But, though the Syriza party’s victory sent Greek equities and bonds plummeting, there is little sign of contagion to other distressed countries on the eurozone periphery.
Nonetheless, the political, social, and economic dimensions of Syriza’s victory are too significant to be ignored.
Netanyahu was the sole contender for the position of prime minister, and his reelection, together with the right-wing parties’ overall victory, seemed a foregone conclusion.
Market Mechanisms and the Order of SocietyVIENNA: Communism's collapse did not mean that the market had won a total victory.
Hollande’s victory has already sharply redefined European politics.
And Valls was right again on April 4 when he warned against the danger of an ideological victory for Salafism, the doctrine underlying jihadism, which views Europe (and, within Europe, France) as prime ground for proselytization.
Only in January of this year, following the LDP’s landslide election victory, did the BOJ set a target of 2% price growth and issue a joint announcement with the government taking aim at deflation.
But following Labour’s victory in 1997, Prime Minister Tony Blair was keen to bring the euro to Britain and was prevented only by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown’s tactical procrastination and eventual refusal to give up the pound.
A Taliban victory there, the advocates of the surge had warned, would radicalize the entire region and create a domino effect, with Islamic insurgencies unleashed across Central Asia.
Al Qaeda, inextricably entwined with the Taliban, would also claim victory if America had signaled a retreat.
But victory for the forces of jihad is not the only possible scenario.
Indeed, India was alone in the non-aligned movement in supporting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980’s, and it also desperately supported the secular Northern Alliance after the Taliban victory of the 1990’s.
But this does not mean that a Taliban victory or an Afghan crisis that spirals out of control is no threat to the Kremlin’s standing in Central Asia, a region it considers its strategic backyard.
The Bundestag first needs to elect a Chancellor, which Merkel should be able to win in the third round of voting, when victory requires only a plurality.
Following an impressive election victory by his Syriza party in January, Greece’s prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, appointed Varoufakis to lead the delicate negotiations with the country’s creditors.
The US has no prospect of a military victory in Afghanistan or Iraq; these wars’ economic costs can hardly be borne anymore, and political support at home is dwindling.
People tend to opt for the standard (VHS, Windows, DVD) that they believe will come out on top, and thus contribute to that victory.
BEIJING – Donald Trump’s shocking victory in the US presidential election has upended all of the certainties that have shaped not only American politics, but also how the world thinks about the United States.
Indeed, amid the vast uncertainty created by Trump’s victory, a new relationship now makes more strategic sense than ever, given changing global circumstances, regional geopolitics, and domestic challenges in both the US and China.
Yet there is no reason for China to declare victory.
And now, with the anti-austerity Syriza party’s overwhelming election victory, Greek voters have declared that they have had enough.
The “trendy” way is to manufacture a significant but not too massive victory.
Overwhelmingly, non-US citizens favor Barack Obama’s re-election over a victory for his challenger, Mitt Romney.
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