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Victory in sentence

2002 examples of Victory in a sentence

Talking tough may play well at victory rallies, but it doesn’t change the facts.
Sarkozy, Carpe Diem!Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential election triumph in May, and now the victory of his party, the UMP, in the parliamentary election, has created the most favorable opportunity in decades for deep structural reform in France.
While voters denied the UMP a landslide victory in the second round, its overall win meant that the governing party retained its legislative majority for the first time in 29 years.
Indeed, May and Merkel both appear likely to win their countries’ general elections this week and in September, respectively, and Macron secured a decisive victory in France.
This can also be applied in the United Kingdom, where evidence is mounting that Russian money and social media activities played a role in securing victory for the Brexiteers in June 2016.
With the recent deal, Michel Barnier, the bloc’s chief negotiator, scored a tactical victory.
Both Bush and Blair want to leave Iraq, if not with a victory, then at least with some sense of "mission accomplished."
The coordinated expulsion of Russian spies from the EU and the United States was a victory for British diplomacy; and suspicions that the Russians were exploiting Britain’s increasing isolation seem to have mobilized NATO.
They cast 73% of their ballots for the National Front’s rivals, depriving the party of even a single victory.
In the recent presidential election, a large turnout carried Carlos Alvarado Quesada to victory with more than 60% of the vote, against an opponent who would have rolled back longstanding commitments to human rights by restricting gay marriage.
While Republican opposition remains strong, the law was a major domestic political victory for Obama.
Obama’s health-care victory, like his 2008 election, suggests that America’s political system is not as broken as critics who draw analogies to the fall of Rome or other empires would have us believe.
But it is too early to declare victory.
The Morning After Israel’s VoteTEL AVIV— “The voters”, said Binyamin Netanyahu in his strange victory speech, during Israel’s bizarre post-election night, “have spoken.”
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Alternatively, Livni could concede victory to Netanyahu despite her small electoral advantage, serve in his government, and pull her weight in favor of moderation.
Rather than interpreting Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War as permission for annexation of territory, that triumph should be viewed as a watershed that made possible peace with the entire Arab world should Israel relinquish occupied Arab lands.
Even if, as expected, the Security Council rejects the Palestinians’ request for full UN membership and Palestine ends up with observer status in the General Assembly, Abbas can already claim victory.
The US presidential race is heating up, but it seems all but certain that Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination and sail to victory in November.
The victory of the Brotherhood’s Morsi in Egypt’s first free presidential election is a historic step forward on Egypt’s rocky democratization path.
Indeed, the Egyptian revolution has defeated Mubarak’s regime and its remnants three times since January 2011: first with Mubarak’s ouster, then in the parliamentary elections held earlier this year, and now with Morsi’s victory.
In the absence of a compromise – and forces that can guarantee its terms – polarization can lead to bad outcomes, ranging in seriousness from Spain in 1982 to Turkey in 1980, and, most worryingly, Algeria in 1992, when the military regime’s nullification of an Islamist electoral victory touched off a prolonged and brutal civil war.
Cold War victory provided the answer for each.
But the opposite conclusion was equally plausible: Given the extent of fragility, a clever twist to the control levers might facilitate a military victory by the economic hegemon.
The triumph of a female president would be an important symbolic and practical victory for all who have sought to establish a political environment that is hospitable to women.
In Afghanistan and Iraq, the US and its allies knew that long-term victory required winning hearts and minds.
And while historians will still be debating what led to Trump’s victory long after he has left office, it is already apparent that many of his supporters similarly want America to bolt its door, restock its pantry, and rely more on itself than on foreign friends.
Because of the protest, he was able to snatch victory from defeat.
Indeed, the lower house of Russia's Duma passed a resolution earlier this year designating September 2 as the anniversary of the “real” end of World War II, effectively making it a day to commemorate the Soviet Union's victory over Japan – and thus an attempt to undermine Japan’s claim that the occupation of the islands came after WWII’s end.
Make no mistake: a nationalist victory next year would rock the EU to its core and throw it into another deep crisis.
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