| His victory was not marked by a surrender but by a change of enemy tactics. |
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| Had he connected properly, it would have given City their second last-gasp victory in successive games. |
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| When carried aloft in the form of a flaming torch, a light is a symbol of victory and leadership. |
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| But hopes of a famous comeback victory were dashed when Bob Beswick forced his way over, Melling goaling for a 30-22 lead. |
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| Sloyan kept Sligo in contention throughout and when he put the game all square with three minutes to play the odds on a home victory shortened. |
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| The victory was a welcome relief for the Rhinos who suffered a 56-10 thrashing at the hands of St Helens last week. |
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| A Shia victory puts the prize in overtly enemy hands-the Iranian revolutionaries. |
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| I want to defend my gold in the 2010 Commonwealth Games and stand on the victory podium before my home crowd. |
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| Since the national side returned triumphantly from Ireland, not a single victory has been accumulated. |
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| The victory over Rovers marked City's first three-point haul of September and lifted the Minstermen back up to fifth in the Division Three table. |
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| And here Emma really went to town, playing some superb shots and grabbing her biggest victory in the competition, a conclusive 6-2 win. |
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| Despite the lingering problem of reparative therapy, activists say the the group's move remains a real victory for gays in China. |
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| No other Taiwan player has achieved a Pro Tour victory and the win puts Chuan in the big ten of the sport. |
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| And whilst all the talk may have been of forwards, the base for victory was built further down the Newbridge turf. |
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| This victory allowed them to leapfrog Hibs and move back into third place in the league. |
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| Apparently her success was a heart-warming populist victory against the corporate body fascism visible in hip-hop videos. |
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| The victory meant the end to a tumultuous year both personally and professionally for both surfers. |
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| For the world championships, my deepest desire was to stand on the victory podium. |
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| But perhaps even more astonishing is how this singular American victory has disappeared from public consciousness. |
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| After live rather unequal rounds, the audience was allowed to vote for the winner, who was then awarded a victory sash and led off in triumph. |
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| It was a victory to bring a smile to the face of even the most cynical and world-weary sport-watcher. |
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| The victory was enough to lift Harden up to third from bottom, leaving Thackley and Silsden in the relegation zone with two games to go. |
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| With no fresh injury problems to report, Bolton should be bang on for victory at the weekend. |
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| Macken is hoping to see some action in Monday's potential showdown at Molineux, a ground where he has already tasted victory this season. |
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| The victory was due in part to a record-tying five interceptions and a touchdown on a 67-yard fumble recovery. |
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| This victory assured them of retaining their division one status for another year. |
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| The victory temporarily lifted the gloom surrounding the team's battle against relegation from the Premiership. |
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| Aireborough recorded an excellent away victory over third placed Knaresborough on Saturday. |
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| An Ames or Clarke victory would have produced almost as much ka-ching as a DiMarco win. |
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| The untimely departure of the teenager was enough to overshadow a last-gasp victory for the Merseyside outfit. |
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| As subsequently qualified by the university's regents, the new policy proved a victory for the moderate center. |
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| However, victory and satisfaction belong to those who do not choose the path of least resistance when faced with major life challenges. |
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| Derby's victory perhaps made the award of the Premiership trophy to United more muted than it might otherwise have been. |
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| Little more than a year ago he was in the depths of despair, but yesterday he put it all behind him with a wonderful victory over his rival. |
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| She appears as a modestly clad woman carrying a palm of victory as she tramples on a figure with flaming hair to indicate her triumph. |
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| It will be hard for him to win, but already he has created such a stir that the party's expected tub-thumping victory is now in doubt. |
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| Residents are claiming victory today after controversial plans for opencast mining near three quiet Yorkshire villages were thrown out. |
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| Rochdale could be justly proud of the role it played in helping the Allies to victory in World War Two. |
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| After 1940, however, the standardizers' victory was more than merely rhetorical. |
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| If Australia somehow pull off victory this week, it should not be a matter for national mourning. |
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| Haga's double victory lifted him from fourth to third in the overall rankings. |
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| They were, he continued, within a whisker of making it through to the All Ireland semi-finals when they had victory snatched from their grasp. |
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| Parents in Keighley have won a victory in a three-year campaign for free school bus passes. |
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| In the arena of real sport though, Michael Vaughan and the England boys cruised to a whitewash 3-0 series victory over New Zealand. |
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| Her victory means Labour now has 37 seats on Bradford Council, one more than the Tories. |
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| John Woodruff's brilliant victory in the 800 meters at the 1936 Olympic Games helped crush Hitler's ideals of white supremacy. |
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| London proceeded to lead the wideners to ultimate victory over the deepeners. |
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| Of what use is decisive victory in battle, he asked, if we bleed to death as a result? |
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| The victory came despite the sending-off of the transfer-listed midfielder after just ten minutes for violent conduct. |
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| Frankie Dettori's bid to notch up his third straight victory in the race was dashed as his mount Doyen finished fourth. |
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| To read a tirade of abuse like this can only add to that trauma and make Nadia's bravery and eventual victory all the more commendable. |
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| Without a win for nine games they have now tasted victory in their last three matches. |
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| Both sides served a game of the highest standard with Portlaoise snatching victory in the dying minutes. |
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| The quarter-final stages began with the Scottish Thistles pulling off a last-gasp victory over Watsonians. |
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| Australians cried when Cathy Freeman carried the Australian flag on her victory lap of honour during the Sydney Olympics. |
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| Four days later, a Croatian victory over the Latvians may well relegate the Scots to third place. |
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| In both groups the victory was achieved mainly by throws and the ability to force the opponent into penalty situations. |
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| I don't believe that the sporting gods will punish us for contemplating victory and I'm all for shedding our national defeatism. |
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| Credit for this victory should be given to an awakening Taiwan consciousness. |
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| Justin's shrewd judgement and his ability to make the necessary changes when needed contributed to this famous victory over the rebels. |
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| Maybe the Sunday night victory party at the beach-front home of his lawyer Glenn Cohen took the starch out of him. |
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| Instead, she found a programme of races that culminated in victory at the world half-marathon championships in Vera Cruz, Mexico. |
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| The victory was a tactical triumph for the German, who started a season-low sixth on the grid. |
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| City opponents have redoubled their assaults, sensing that a Tory victory is not impossible. |
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| And you look at the eagles, the massive bronze eagles in the victory arches and the laurel wreaths. |
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| With victory this time, it seemed, came intense mourning and an intimation of mortality. |
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| Hitler refused to accept the Allied victory as a triumph with strategic dimensions. |
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| Sri Lanka find themselves in that happy situation after their innings and 15 run victory at Galle. |
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| But on close examination the scene looks less like a victory for democracy than a case of mob rule. |
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| This is first time that the locals won a victory after several hundred years of colonial rule by white people. |
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| Souths can seal a place in the four with a victory over Brunswick at Thompson Oval in Brunswick Heads. |
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| Many Bostonians reacted to the victory by taking to the streets of Beantown early on Thursday morning and rioting. |
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| The triumph also meant a shutout victory for goalkeeper Tim Howard, the first American to play in the final. |
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| The decision to go with my rather fetching moleskin jacket was looking like a victory for style over practicality. |
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| He reached three more grand slam finals, including the Australian and US Opens, but never tasted victory again on the big stage. |
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| Mids sealed their first victory in four matches with more than four overs to spare. |
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| Canada's Perdita Felicien smashed her lifetime best with victory in 12.53 seconds to upset gold medal favourite Brigitte Foster. |
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| Each pillar has four bronze columns supporting American eagles that hold a victory laurel. |
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| For a team that demands victory every year this is world-shaking, humbling stuff. |
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| Negotiations will be intense, but the president could carve out a victory that will win the support of autoworkers and farmers. |
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| The Australian-born athlete picked off her peers moving through the field with ease before bearing down on victory in the closing stages. |
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| It just taxed the Devils, who faced six short-handed situations one night earlier in a 3-1 victory at the New York Rangers. |
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| James also performed superbly in some track events and led his team to victory in the relay races, as well. |
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| The victory here seemed as if Swaziland had just won the World Cup with motorists blowing their car horns in wild jubilation. |
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| The U.S., for its part, counted it as a victory when a member of the Bolshoi would hop an airport turnstile and defect. |
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| He had his days of disappointment too, but he was equally gracious and magnanimous in both victory and defeat. |
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| Cathy Freeman's 400m victory would by itself have been enough for a crowd of 112,000 adoring Aussies. |
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| In the Norrebro area, home to many of the city's communist and anarchist groups, an impromptu victory parade began. |
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| In another interesting display of tradition, the winners in the women's race got to do a victory lap with laurel in their hair. |
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| However, that didn't matter to the vociferous home support who cheered their side's maiden league victory to the echo. |
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| Austria felt a great deal of loyalty to him and was ready to hand him the victory to prevent Germany from eliminating him. |
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| The Irishman rode Alan Jarvis-trained Lady Pahia to victory in the Mortarmill Organic Dairy Fillies' Stakes. |
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| May the victory that he has won turn to ashes in his mouth, and may he know sorrow greater than any he has caused to us. |
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| Stand-in captain Kevin Nolan sewed things up in stoppage time with a clinical finish to give Bolton their first league victory in three games. |
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| Labor says the Prime Minister's been forced into an embarrassing backdown, labelling it a victory for commonsense. |
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| Irish led by four points and were in sight of a famous victory when you-know-who was sin-binned in the second half. |
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| This could be a victory against the men in grey suits at the top of football. |
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| They amassed a number of chances to put victory beyond doubt before half-time. |
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| With that being said, all the other generals, and even the guards shouted the battle cry, confident of the victory in upcoming battles. |
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| The trainer was philosophical about his victory coming hard on the heels of his loss. |
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| You align yourself with Whig historians, happy to see the victory of the Hanoverian regime as a necessary triumph of progress and pragmatism. |
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| The mid-term break will do wonders to rest the minds too, because this victory was fashioned and won in the head as much as the flesh. |
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| In other words, Labour would have had a landslide election victory in 1997 even if no tactical vote had been cast. |
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| Neil Callan rides to victory in the last race of the day to leave the race for the meeting's top jockey wide open. |
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| London's victory was announced only after a presentation ceremony that scaled new heights of kitsch. |
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| His margin of victory can be taken as evidence that the majority of Americans have confidence in him as the commander in chief. |
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| Duration of combat and numbers of casualties aren't yardsticks for measuring victory or failure. |
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| The second major plus about Kerry's victory on Sunday was the quality of the football they played. |
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| It was a victory etched out in the main through a team effort and a very fine one at that. |
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| The unbeaten hosts enjoyed a 22-15 victory after having the better of the first half, and then holding off Pock's second-half surge. |
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| They looked upon electoral victory as licence to abuse power, help cronies and amass huge fortunes. |
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| It is reasonable to suggest therefore that her victory helped to heal the wounds of injured national pride. |
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| He was heartened by the way his side hung on for victory at Everton last weekend, but still concerned at their failure to finish the game off. |
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| Meanwhile, Civil Service had their best result of the season when they clocked a ten-wicket victory over New Earswick. |
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| Tim's principled stands on these issues propelled him to victory against his two better-known rivals. |
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| Cornish Rebel made a successful start to his chasing career with victory in a novice chase at Lingfield. |
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| Then one night, a soldier busts my front door in, drunk from the victory parties. |
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| In Division Two, Old Crescent laid down a marker with a comprehensive victory over Midleton at Rosbrien on Saturday. |
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| Suicidal Terror's only possible victory lies in the pointless self-murder of its last happy martyr. |
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| Both the declared victor and the man who says fraud robbed him of victory are coming face to face today. |
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| In the final game of the day, Kay scored three more, but MIM were edged out 7-6 in a thrilling victory for Grange. |
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| Huddersfield, of course, can render both results meaningless if they themselves gain a victory and maintain their position in sixth place. |
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| The secured the two-point win after a last-gasp victory at Greenhead Park, Huddersfield. |
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| Two years before he would guide the international juniors to victory over their American counterparts with 33 points and 14 rebounds. |
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| It is an astonishing victory over the forces of government inertia, and she could not resist basking in her moment of glory. |
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| The fame of Henry I was assured by his victory over the Magyars near Merseburg. |
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| That thought must have dimmed again by the time the Anfielder's were showered in victory ticker tape. |
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| The party won a resounding victory at the parliamentary elections on a ticket of law and order, and tax cuts. |
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| If he is first past the post then the victory will put a very serious dent in the profits on bookmakers operating in Ireland. |
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| Look back over the last nine away wins and City have only once managed to follow up with a victory at Valley Parade. |
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| Many contemporary philosophers see the ultimate triumph of atomism as a victory for realism over positivism. |
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| That he came last with only 9 percent is a great victory in the battle against fascism. |
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| A Wright victory will lead Labour to conclude that Blair is safe to lead the party into the general election. |
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| The pint-sized pugilist carved a niche in the local professional fight game, a victory which catapulted him into the record books. |
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| He had a hand in all four goals that gave Celtic an astonishing victory over the Serie A giants. |
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| After the victory over the Persians in 479 B. C. the Greeks offered this tripod at the oracle of Delphi, from where it was brought to Byzantium. |
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| Did he not say that Germany's suffering in WW I was a prelude to a greater victory and a rebirth for the nation? |
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| At number two for Wigginton Paul Hargrave coasted to victory over David Campion tying the game up 3-0 for points. |
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| Yorkshire will be keen to avoid the wooden spoon and victory in Whitehaven would see them finish as runners-up. |
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| His surprise victory was completed with a well-taken length of the table bank shot on the 8 ball. |
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| Germany's victory will go some way to redeeming the first major outbreak of crowd trouble of the tournament. |
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| I closed my eyes, breathing a sigh of relief, feeling the intoxicating sense of victory wash over me. |
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| A single maladroit quip or an unscripted dramatic moment on the campaign trail could spell the difference between victory and defeat. |
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| Her victory was an unlikely triumph for a woman who lay backstage crying before the curtain had even gone up. |
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| Ingrow St John's looked to be coasting to victory at home to Chatburn when play was interrupted. |
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| The election was also a victory for women, providing them with an opportunity for a very symbolic re-entry into Afghan public life. |
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| A Democrat won a tight victory for lieutenant governor while a Republican won a landslide triumph in the attorney general's race. |
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| Haiti's emergence meant much more than a major black victory over whites and the creation of a black state. |
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| Australia must be met with the full force of England's conviction, and only victory in the coming weeks will provide that. |
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| Their police department engineered a massive victory over crime in the 1990s by rigorously analyzing police data. |
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| The visitors just about deserved their victory for their more incisive back play. |
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| The two-try win saw Ospreys seal their fifth victory in six games and end a run of five successes for the Warriors. |
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| In other words, when the Prime Minister is confident of victory he goes all out to ensure he wins. |
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| Ever since, the victory over the asura is celebrated with customary obeisance to the Goddess Durga. |
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| He is no gloater, but his team's 1-0 victory over his old employers clearly provided a day to savour. |
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| The Rocket did not always produce his A-game during a 9-5 victory over Ian McCulloch in the Totesport Grand Prix. |
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| In the years immediately following Christ's resurrection, alleluia particularly connoted praise for Jesus' victory over death. |
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| However, victory celebrations were renewed when the player returned to the clubhouse after being given the all-clear by doctors. |
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| Brass insists doubts over City's character and commitment can be firmly squashed in the wake of Saturday's 2-0 victory over Cambridge United. |
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| We won a great victory with the resounding defeat of the proposed amendment. |
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| Milltown juniors enjoyed a 1-9 to 1-5 victory away to Castledermot in the league recently. |
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| India also would be looking for a victory to book a berth in the finals as their final match is against Sri Lanka. |
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| A canny motorist has beaten the odds to win a rare victory against the all-seeing speed cameras. |
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| He did recall a small victory that came out of a meeting with two human rights activists, an American and a Rwandan. |
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| Inevitably, the victory earned him the order of merit title, swapping places with Bradley who had captured it last year. |
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| Some of the players have also been deeply unhappy about the media coverage of last Sunday's halting 36-11 victory over Japan in Townsville. |
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| His 1999 election victory was a reaffirmation of faith in the party's ultimate ability to deliver socio-economic improvements. |
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| The tourists won their fourth straight victory by eight wickets, in the 36th over. |
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| At least three poker games were in session with yells of victory or groans of loss that shook the walls. |
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| Ebdon had the chance to seal victory in the deciding frame after White missed a yellow. |
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| It took a crushing 6-0 victory on the last day of the Group 3 campaign to clinch their berth at the finals. |
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| Still, God granted victory to him that he alone avenged himself with sword when he needed help. |
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| Matilda's inability to be magnanimous in victory had cost the country another 12 years of civil war. |
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| He always showed a wonderful degree of sportsmanship and in victory or defeat was magnanimous to the other side. |
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| It was an Allied victory but Britain had nearly exhausted its supply of men and the Americans had expended hundreds of thousands of lives. |
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| He even anchored the Canadian 4x100m relay team to glorious victory over the Americans. |
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| A year later, the king was crowned with the laurels of victory at Fontenoy. |
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| Mike and Angie took the goals and the rematch ended in a one shot victory for Mike's team. |
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| The events of Yuri's Revenge come on the heels of the Allied victory over the Soviets. |
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| Rarely, however, has potential upset turned into such glorious victory in the time it takes the eye to close and re-open. |
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| Neither side deserved a victory and they barely created a worthwhile chance between them. |
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| They certainly left their calling card in this game as they scored a fine victory over champions Rosenallis in Castle Park on Sunday. |
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| The Poles' victory at Warsaw was seen at the time as the salvation of European democracy in the face of communism. |
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| We will not forget that treachery, and we will accept nothing less than victory over the enemy. |
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| They had sailed back to England the following week after a glorious victory at Crecy. |
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| The really big question for the rest of us in Europe is what victory for one side or the other will mean in economic terms. |
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| That evening, images of the Algerian and French flags flying side by side during the victory celebrations were beamed out to the world. |
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| The Metcalf Memorial marked Sur La Tete's fifth victory in 11 starts over the jumps. |
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| The two-set victory left May and Walsh as the only team that have not dropped a single game in the tournament. |
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| But the burden for achieving national unity is on a president who could manage a narrow victory only by savagely trashing his opponent. |
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| During the practice round before my Masters victory in 1997, Arnold, Jack and I had the best time kibitzing over bets. |
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| The players underestimated the qualities of their opponents, whose 2-1 extra-time victory ushered in the era of total football. |
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| As a result, more than half of the Cambodian Communists and 4 of the 10 people who led the Khmers to victory in 1975, were also destroyed. |
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| He was imprisoned a year before the NLD won a landslide election victory in 1990 only to be denied power by the generals. |
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| In the afternoon a banner proclaiming his victory is unrolled and held by supporters. |
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| Indeed, one of the prices of a victory won in the face of French and German recalcitrance has been a slide in UK support for the single currency. |
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| Newly elected ministers invariably choose to regard an election victory as conferring a mandate on their policies. |
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| After his victory Krishna returned very early in the morning and was bathed and massaged with scented oils. |
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| They also learnt the lesson that the aircraft carrier rather than the battleship was to be crucial to victory in naval warfare. |
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| The Manchester victory has opened windows and doors of opportunity for New Oak. |
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| My family's name has been besmirched by your victory over me, but your trickery can't hope to save you now. |
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| Fortunately, the referee stopped the scheduled eight-round contest after three rounds, awarding victory to Valley. |
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| As the music swells to a triumphant brass climax, I can tell that victory is within my grasp. |
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| Although the Democrat is favored at this point, his victory is not guaranteed. |
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| The Northern Irish were not lacking confidence considering their last victory came against Malta 17 months ago. |
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| St Pierre netminder Marc Duval traps the puck Sunday night in St Pierre as he backstopped the 59ers to a 6-1 victory over the St Adolphe Hawks. |
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| Shouting a victory cry, he gave one mighty heave and shoe, worm, and fish flew from the water in a perfect arc over his boat. |
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| He crossed the finishing line beaming broadly and with arms raised aloft in a victory salute. |
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| The team tempts fate by planning a victory celebration before a ball has been kicked. |
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| His mission is to guide an assortment of infantry, vehicles, terradynes and aerodynes into victory on the battlefield. |
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| But the shoulders have widened and the appetite for victory sharpened by a few years' reflection on the might-have-beens. |
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| Even though they had very obviously secured victory and there was no way back for Wexford still they harassed and hassled the visitors. |
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| To get bums on seats, to get people watching the pro-teams, victory is what we need. |
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| Not that I'm saying Shanghai ought to have been nuked, merely if victory was required, then it might have been necessary. |
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| He won a landslide election victory earlier this year on the themes of clean government and a more tolerant society. |
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| Benfleet kept on the winning trail with victory over lowly Epping at Woodside Park by six wickets. |
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| City of York completed a superb double over a rapidly-improving Rotherham side with a 5-2 victory in a bad-tempered game. |
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| China steps on to the pitch at the World Cup finals this year with one victory already in the bag. |
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| Greg then went on a successful tour of Europe, in which he scored an important kayo victory over Jose Urtain. |
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| At no stage did anything other than a resounding victory for Stradbally suggest itself. |
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| After the victory at Smolensk, Hitler reverted to his old concept of concentrating the main effort on the wings. |
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| The Battle of Longewala and our victory would not have been possible but for the leadership of Wingco Bawa. |
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| But why are these individuals haunting the most liberal blogs on the net to gloat instead of celebrating their victory with their own kind? |
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| Probably the most famous battleship fight decided by crossing the T was the Japanese victory at Tsushima Straights in the Russo-Japanese War. |
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| She scored a major victory when she secured a ban on the export of charcoal in northeast Somalia. |
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| With loud hurrahs from appropriate quarters and much general ballyhoo, my friend went along to that victory parade in London. |
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| Tiger Woods poses with wahine hula girls and the winner's trophy after his victory in the 23rd PGA Grand Slam of Golf on Wednesday. |
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| Long Lee Under-13s B clocked up their third consecutive win with a 5-4 victory over Wilsden. |
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| We have beaten better sides, sides above us in the table, but no victory has been more crucial than the one over the Broncos. |
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| Long Lee Under-7s clocked up a 7-3 victory over Eldwick after Kian Shaw scored a goal in the first minute. |
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| But Radcliffe clinched victory with a superb sprint as the pair came within sight of the finishing line. |
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| However, both forfeited their chances of overall victory when their team withdrew later that evening, fearing further incidents. |
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| That victory signaled the start of a run in which Miami became the king of college football. |
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| But in adding gold in Athens to her victory in Sydney, Robertson became the greatest ever Olympic Scotswoman. |
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| At Phoenix, he became the first driver in IRL history to lap the field as he led wire-to-wire en route to his first victory of the season. |
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| For example, the 1928 election was a landslide victory for the Republicans. |
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| His election victory means he automatically stands down from the European Parliament. |
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| The stage victory marked a reversal of fortunes for the 26-year-old who lost the prologue when his chain came off close to the finish. |
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| While massive amounts of US air power could bring tactical victories, achieving strategic victory proved to be more difficult. |
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| His side then secured victory off the last ball of the game with nine wickets down. |
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| But despite his foot coming out of one of his irons, Batchelor kept his cool and his mount dug deep to claim the victory with Lacdoudal. |
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| With Randall Meier in the irons, Jaguar Friend earned his first stakes win and second straight victory in three career starts. |
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| Montgomery's victory over Rommel at El Alamein early in November came as a vast relief, and reconsolidated Churchill's position as war leader. |
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| I had to pull back hard on the stick as my wounded victory drops into a steep nosedive. |
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| The ancient Greeks believed that there had been Amazons and celebrated their victory over them. |
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| If his victory stands, the immediate prospect for reducing tension across the strait appears remote. |
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| The 14th seed scored his best victory since a defeat of then-world number one Pete Sampras in a final four years ago. |
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| He rode the Westphalian gelding to victory in the six-year-old category. |
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| The England cricket side celebrate in front of the Barmy Army with a lap of honour around the Sydney Cricket Ground following their victory in the final Test. |
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| At first glance, it might be tempting to interpret this extravagant level of compensation as a victory for the once-humble intern. |
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| Yet the great national commitment to victory in World War II stands out as a singular shining moment of cohesion and unity. |
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| By the time word of military victory reached home, the conquering army might have been destroyed in a subsequent battle. |
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| The repeal of the Corn Law is these days commonly regarded as the ultimate victory of the classical liberal economic doctrine over wrong-headed mercantilism. |
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| In the final set he did not lose a single point on his serve and wore his opponent down with relentless rallying to complete the victory 6-1 in the third. |
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| Santorum said to the hundreds of people at his victory party in the stoney Creek Inn in Johnston, Iowa. |
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| Three local rowers, two of them oarsmen who learned their skills on the River Aire as fellow pupils at Bradford Grammar School, celebrated victory at the Henley Royal Regatta. |
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| The Strand Road side were hungry and were determined not to lose another semi-final and they fought for victory as if their very lives hung on the outcome. |
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| Instead, his victory capped a memorable night for the Buck family. |
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| Lost in the Fog was a tired colt on Sunday morning but otherwise in good spirits a day after his wire-to-wire victory in the King's Bishop Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. |
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| The war of nerves testing the three principal candidates for victory in the 2000 Tour De France reaches a climax tomorrow, when the race heads into the Pyrenees. |
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| The move spawned rampant corruption and misrule and led to a bitter civil war that ended with the victory of the genocidal Khmer Rouge communists. |
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| With what followed, the golfing odds may be against either claiming an unlikely victory today, but these were welcome returns to form nonetheless. |
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| Maids Causeway, Vista Bella and Karen's Caper filled the places, but despite her starting price, this seemed almost like a routine victory for the Ballydoyle filly. |
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| As he walked away, the tow-headed young fans glimpsed the front of a second, tan-colored cap turned backward on Morris' head that proclaimed the Terps' victory a third time. |
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| It was the second time that her victory was called into question. |
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| Back in 2007, I wrote an op-ed for The New York Times arguing that SSE should declare victory and then go out of business. |
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| The three-year-old absolutely trotted-up by five lengths at Pontefract last week, a victory which looks sure to earn him much more than 5lb extra in future handicaps. |
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| The fact that today's speech will focus on the need for unity suggests that the chancellor is not one of those who sees a third Labour victory as in the bag. |
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| To recapitulate, Young differs with me profoundly on the question of whether we should support the resistance, and hope for their victory against the army of occupation. |
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| Yet in recent years this victory has been called into question. |
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| Typically then he sat almost unobtrusively in a crowded dressingroom and when asked for comment was at pains to stress that the victory was down to a team effort. |
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| A committed team effort from Kendal was rewarded with a 35-run victory over reigning Northern Premier League champions Darwen at Birch Hall on Saturday. |
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| Nigel Twiston-Davies's imposing six-year-old produced one or two lethargic jumps, and then a particularly laboured effort at the final fence handed victory to Vodka Bleu. |
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| British solo yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur yesterday claimed a record-breaking victory in the Route du Rhum, one of the world's most prestigious transatlantic races. |
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| Since then, he's captured two Stanley Cups, backstopped Canada to the gold medal at the 2002 Olympics, and compiled a record eight straight 30-plus victory seasons. |
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| A victory in the play-off final two years ago did salve some wounds, however, and the expected 400,000 windfall from Sky for the Newcastle game should heal a few more. |
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| Still, I'll always think back to the good times we had together, like our victory in the sack race, the moment we bonded in his apartment, and that crazy laugh of his. |
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| The last remaining staffers then ran off to the victory party at McCormick Place to catch the president's speech. |
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| That victory for the tab became a bargaining chip in all future dealings with the superstar. |
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| But if he wins a big victory here, then he will look like a certifiable front-runner, having won back-to-back victories in Iowa and New Hampshire. |
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| His victory in the most recent plate race is a sterling example. |
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| The television station kept airing exit polls, claiming that the party had scored a landslide victory in both the parliamentary and local elections. |
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| This will constitute a major victory for the forces of light, one very much worth marking and thinking back over. |
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| To be sure, the victory parade was impressive, but for nearly an hour the would-be victors had wandered listlessly around the back streets before finding a short cut to glory. |
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| This was a facile victory for the girls who stormed into the game from the tip-off and dominated their opponents in every sector to seal a great win. |
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| Tullow clinched victory in the last thirty seconds of the game. |
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| Yet Boies and Olson confidently claim credit not only for a fine legal victory but for changing the country with their lawsuit. |
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| He loved being wound up, made the impending victory all the more glorious. |
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| I did a victory dance on the train when I got the trackback notification. |
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| Australia would have won by 10 wickets only for Justin Langer to be deceived by a Danish Kaneria wrong'un and bowled for 34 just four runs short of victory target. |
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| In the end, Shumlin led by a puny 2,434 votes, less than the 50 percent margin needed for victory under Vermont law. |
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| The latter is the single, Sexiest Man in Jamaica, a zippy bit of fun in which Prince Buster rustily declaims his sexiness over an orchestral victory march. |
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| And as the country started to dial down the overt sexism, women scored a major victory in Massachusetts. |
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| Adam Scott, the 23-year-old Aussie with Lancastrian roots, was considered an outsider until his magnificent victory in the Players' Championship at Sawgrass 10 days ago. |
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| They began to shout yells of victory as they watched the Unions retreat. |
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| Doncaster played the second half a man down after Ross had lamped Cain, but their opponents could well have romped to victory with or without that advantage. |
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| Backed by this Republican support, seltzer eked out a narrow 35-vote victory in a low-turnout primary. |
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| And maybe its concealment showed his victory over those lures, of both the flesh and the brush. |
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| Kaine pulled out a narrow victory by about two points, with Allen conceding late Tuesday. |
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| Operational tempo seemed particularly laggard after major victories, when maintaining the momentum of victory would seem to have promised the greatest rewards. |
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