noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a deserved win/victory/success etc
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Larsson’s goal gave Celtic a deserved victory.
a run of defeats/victories etc
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His extraordinary run of successes has been stopped.
a surprise victory
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She came to power in 1977, after a surprise victory in the general election.
a victory celebration
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Some football fans were arrested during the victory celebrations.
an election victory/defeat
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He became prime minister after a decisive election victory.
claim victory (= say that you are the winner )
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The election results were in and the President was able to claim victory.
clinch a match/championship/victory etc
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A last-minute touchdown clinched the game.
coasting to victory
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The Ugandan relay team are coasting to victory .
decisive victory/result/defeat etc
hollow victory
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They won, but it was a hollow victory .
landslide...victory
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a landslide election victory
led...to victory
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Beckham led his team to victory .
notable achievement/success/victory
Pyrrhic victory
romp to a win/victory
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The women’s team romped to a 132–81 win over Ireland.
sweep to power/victory
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Nixon and Agnew swept to victory with 47 million votes.
sweet taste of victory
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the sweet taste of victory
the spoils of war/victory etc
win a victory
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The protesters have won one victory already.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
comfortable
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The platform had won a comfortable victory in the afternoon's debate on policy.
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Morrell went on for a comfortable victory over three seconds clear of the defending champion, Mark Kirk, of Ballymena.
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It sealed a comfortable victory and sent Rovers soaring into third place in the table.
consecutive
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Nigel Lamb won all three individual programmes, to record his sixth consecutive championship victory .
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There are golfers who have dominated certain events with consecutive victories .
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The Huskers own a 42-game home winning streak, tying Texas for fifth on the list of consecutive home victories .
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They also earned their second consecutive victory for the first time since last November.
decisive
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Hugo Chavez won a decisive victory over Francisco Arias in his bid for a six-year term as Venzuela's president.
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Nixon, meanwhile, spoke and acted as if the United States had won a decisive victory under his command.
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As it happens the outcome, in my view, is a decisive victory for the individual organism.
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The word on the grapevine is that this survey will show a decisive Gore victory .
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William of Orange is seen to have worked the decisive victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
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He took four of six rounds and yet without ever making his supporters believe that a decisive victory was on the cards.
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At last the moment to silence all the doubters with a decisive victory arrived.
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He wanted forces capable of quick, decisive victories against diplomatically isolated opponents.
easy
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Haynes then steered the tourists to an easy victory with more than 11 overs to spare.
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Ford gratefully accepts, takes a sip and continues to watch as his team heads for an easy victory .
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Fulfilling an outstanding fixture at Benllech A, the 1992 title winners romped home with an easy 11-1 victory .
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The Ladies race produced another easy victory for Percival.
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The Chargers dominated the Raiders on both sides of the line, walking away with a surprisingly easy victory .
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The lopsided final score may suggest an easy victory .
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Still others cruised to easy victory , including 93-year-old Strom Thurmond, R-S.
final
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He scored 24 tries, two of them in the epic Challenge Cup final victory over Hull.
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In the final victory of the Olympians over the brutish sons of Earth, Hercules' arrows played an important part.
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However, the final victory over sin was anticipated but not completed on the cross.
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More than 1,300 letters of congratulation had reached him within 10 days of the Croke Park cup final victory .
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In preparation for the final victory which he believed would be his, Franco nominated his first cabinet in January 1938.
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Once this had been achieved and the victory in the north assured, nothing mattered to Franco so much as the final victory.
great
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How great are the victories you give!
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The local press wants to hear all about the great victory .
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His greatest victory came in 1975 when his friend Jerry Brown, then governor, forced through an agricultural labour law.
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It was a great victory for the women.
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Toby, next morning, was inclined to regard it as a great victory .
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In the end he won a great victory for freedom.
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It was almost as though this great victory had been taken away from us.
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If I can give you the words you need to have, it will be a great victory .
labour
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In February 1974, they feared acutely that a Labour victory would reverse their achievement.
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This is immensely unpopular in the country and makes a Labour victory more likely.
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Despite the above, I voted for Labour although its victory would have hit my pocket.
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This would be the first public acknowledgment of the role of union leaders in a Labour victory .
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Companies that were seen as vulnerable to a Labour victory led share prices upwards.
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A Labour victory would have boosted their disposable income by £311, mainly because of the increase in child benefit.
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Investment in housing, transport, education and social services would have risen with a Labour victory .
major
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He also won two of the eight Ritz Club monthly awards, one for each of his Major victories .
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What was needed now was a major legislative victory that would change the atmosphere of political resentment and resistance on Capitol Hill.
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The High Elves had won their first major victory .
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It was a major victory for women.
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Campaigners against the proposed cuts say it's a major victory .
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In announcing the decision, Clinton and senior aides claimed a major diplomatic victory for the administration.
military
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Eisenhower was a good soldier blessed with a constellation of better soldiers who made both his military and political victories possible.
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Military hardware alone is not sufficient to ensure military victory .
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His assignment seems to have been the result of a military victory in a top-level power struggle with the civilians.
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When Isabella wins a military victory she celebrates it with eleven days of psalms and the sonorous severities of priests.
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Taylor rejected Sawyer's proposals, apparently convinced that he could win military victory and install himself as president.
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Napoleon's military victories , for example, might just have to be attributed to his genius.
moral
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Although it saved them substantial costs, these cases were not exactly searing moral victories for the healthcare plans.
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Those are the kinds of moral victories that eluded them in Game 1.
narrow
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Crowds gathered in central Lima last Sunday night to cheer his narrow victory over former president Alan Garcia.
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On election night, however, the team squeaked out a narrow victory .
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When the 1976 election returns were in, Jimmy Carter was found to have won a narrow victory over Gerald Ford.
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Was Buzz Calkins' narrow victory over Tony Stewart enough to keep them interested?
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A penalty scored three minutes from time by Andrew Mehrtens gave the champions the narrowest of victories .
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John F.. Kennedy that helped propel the handsome young Massachusetts Democrat to a narrow victory .
pyrrhic
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If this constituted defeat for Malcolm McLaren, it was, perhaps, only a pyrrhic victory for Richard Branson.
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I raised a stink about it and got my seat back, but it was a Pyrrhic victory .
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It may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory .
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This was indeed a Pyrrhic victory , because West Indies cricket was assuredly the loser.
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The triumph of postmodernism, at least in the west, has been a Pyrrhic victory .
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Inflation seemed like a pyrrhic victory , almost a tease.
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My only regret is that he didn't turn up at court to watch his Pyrrhic victory .
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It was a pyrrhic victory for both sides.
■ NOUN
celebration
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This signalled the start of the victory celebrations as Randalstown swamped the Victorians circle.
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Tuesday, they put on their party duds and joined the victory celebrations .
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Shah Jehan had now recovered from his illness and was able to move to Agra and join in the victory celebrations .
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James McClure, R-Idaho, sponsored a victory celebration for second-term Sen.
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Today's announcement of the drive for union members smacked of a victory celebration , surely a little premature ahead of Thursday's vote?
election
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But ensuring it does is one of the most important tasks facing Mr Major in the aftermath of his election victory .
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Bill Clinton's two election victories in 1992 and 1996 owed everything to women voters.
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A national election victory gives a stronger moral claim to rule than a local election.
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The government of President Slobodan Milosevic Friday conceded for the first time a handful of opposition election victories that it earlier annulled.
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Thus they contributed greatly to the popularity of national economic planning which underpinned Labour's election victory in 1945.
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It is a strange malady that strikes following a stunning election victory and tests your ability to avoid injudicious and arrogant actions.
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The Conservative election victory weakens any quasi-formal link with Labour still further.
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The election victories had lulled many of our supporters into a dangerous complacency.
landslide
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Nationally, the Labour Party had enjoyed a stunning landslide victory .
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Dole won a landslide victory , giving him a 5-1 lead in delegates over Forbes, his nearest challenger.
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Will the Conservative promise to abolish education bring them a landslide victory ?
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They haven't achieved such a swing since its landslide victory in 1945.
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However, the landslide victory for reformist political leader president Khatami in 1997 has ushered in a new era of liberalism.
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The opposition call for a boycott of the election was almost universally observed yet the Government still claimed a landslide victory .
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Instead, Nu scored a landslide victory , winning 159 seats to the 41 the Stable group secured.
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Yet if the polls are anything like right, Labour is on course for another landslide victory .
lap
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He then took a victory lap around the floor of the arena and wound up having his picture taken with Ali.
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A warm-up lap , unlike a victory lap, could be done by telephone.
■ VERB
achieve
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Percival also achieved her fourth victory of the week, and both were presented with enough cut glass to open a shop.
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Nonbiological gay parents have achieved scattered legal victories throughout the United States.
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Militant believes that basic reforms in society can not be achieved without victory in the class struggle.
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A military commander should order his troops in the way best calculated to achieve victory at a minimal cost.
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Once this had been achieved and the victory in the north assured, nothing mattered to Franco so much as the final victory.
celebrate
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Hoarse from the final days of furious campaigning, Clinton celebrated his victory at a party with campaign staff on Thursday night.
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Nguyen Trai celebrated the victory with a poem of hope: Henceforth our country is safe.
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The Tories should celebrate their victory .
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His teammates were long gone, headed home to celebrate the biggest victory of their pro careers.
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As the Conservatives celebrated their victory against the odds, a Labour inquest was already beginning.
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Charleston celebrated the victory far into the night.
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Were the magnetic field to be found, Newtonians would celebrate a sensational victory .
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She celebrated his courtroom victories and consoled him when he lost.
claim
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This one ended with both sides claiming victory .
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Where it had claimed a victory , the same crew of specialists dissected the results and fed them into the machinery.
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The election leaves it with no agenda for governing such division, even if it claims a victory .
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In announcing the decision, Clinton and senior aides claimed a major diplomatic victory for the administration.
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This outcome left both sides claiming victory .
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Hamas leaders had said in recent interviews that they would claim victory if turnout was lower than 50 percent.
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Critics accused Mr Berlusconi of surrendering the authority of the state to a few thousand extremists who could now claim victory .
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This morning they were able to claim a small victory when the contractors turned away without doing the work.
clinch
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Devoy took a mere 26 minutes to clinch her second-round victory .
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Perhaps the establishment of the Sydney Opera House clinched its victory for bragging rights.
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This time Radford did not let her chance slip away and she clinched the biggest victory of her career so far.
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But Chatfield had the final say to clinch victory .
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He then teamed up with partner Jason Jones to clinch the vital seven victory points in the deciding doubles encounter.
follow
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When Lyle won the Masters in 1988, he did so immediately following another victory at Greensboro.
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It is a strange malady that strikes following a stunning election victory and tests your ability to avoid injudicious and arrogant actions.
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So time did not hang heavily during the weeks which followed the victory at Annan and Balliol's flight.
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They have become involved in debilitating scandals and disastrous adventures following election victories .
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Clearly Oswiu experienced a tremendous increase in personal power and prestige following his victory at the Winwaed.
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After years of anonymity following her victory in court, McCorvey began to champion the abortion rights movement in 1984.
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They followed up their victory by sacking Gondar, burning numerous churches.
lead
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Mr Hattersley said this would lead to another Tory victory .
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It can, as in snails, lead to victory or to defeat; or to an uneasy truce.
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He was killed in the assault soon after, but the information he had gained as a scout led to victory .
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Janet led us through the victories at the polls, then appointed a committee that drafted the Florida Educational Equity Act.
record
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On this performance Leeds should record a few more away victories e.g. Swindon.
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Cardiff recorded two emphatic victories in 24 hours, winning 9-2 against Whitley Warriors and 13-2 at Billingham.
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Swinton recorded their first victory for 16 games against Hull.
score
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Hawarden Park scored a 76-run victory over bottom of the table Chirk.
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He led her to it, thinking that he had scored his first victory , but he was depressed.
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In Arizona, Forbes scored an upset victory this week, in large part because of his flat-tax proposal.
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Left: new Honda V12 performed faultlessly for Senna to score easy victory .
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Meantime, Brian Bell of Bangor scored an impressive victory in the men's 100m freestyle with a time of 52.70.
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Adams was aboard when Party Politics scored his first victory in a two-and-a-half mile novice chase at Warwick in Feb 1990.
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Emerson had begun his career with Lotus in 1970, scoring his first grandprix victory at Watkins Glen in 1971.
seal
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Hepburn converted to seal the victory .
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Just a little bit more was needed from them to seal an amazing victory .
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He then supplied the finishing touch to a 32-pass move to seal victory .
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Another half-hour of it would have sealed a momentous victory .
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A try by Plange and two from Richard Price sealed Sheffield's victory .
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Andy Cole's first international goal sealed victory in injury time.
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It sealed a comfortable victory and sent Rovers soaring into third place in the table.
secure
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By placing Franco in overall command, the Nationalists made a quantum leap forward in their efforts to secure victory .
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Ladies al; so will have an enormous challenge in trying to secure a coveted victory .
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McCoy grabbed the rebound and Dollar hit two free throws to secure the victory .
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However, independent political analyst Andrew MacMullen says Labour could still secure victory with a smaller swing in its favour.
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Pasok by-election victory Pasok secured a convincing victory in a by-election in the Athens B district on April 5.
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Yet the party leaders also used various forms of manipulation and intimidation in their efforts to secure a victory .
win
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Last month the Southern party, which advocates secession, won its first mayoral victory , in a village in Alabama.
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Aside from elections, Councils were able to use pressure to win victories for Nonconformity.
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They had learned to speak, and so had won their first great victory over Time.
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As the Daily Telegraph said in a leader: The Government has won a very important victory .
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In the end he won a great victory for freedom.
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This was what it felt like to win a victory and lose the war.
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Nixon, meanwhile, spoke and acted as if the United States had won a decisive victory under his command.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be cheated of victory/success etc
convincing victory/win
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After a convincing win in game 1 Kasparov fell prey to overconfidence, losing games 4 and 5.
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If not a thoroughly convincing victory it further establishes Mason in the heavyweight division and his career will now take definite shape.
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It is the convincing win the Ducks needed, and Jody is more relieved than happy.
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Let's start preparing for a convincing win against Sheffield Utd.
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Lets hope for a convincing win.
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Pasok by-election victory Pasok secured a convincing victory in a by-election in the Athens B district on April 5.
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Then, leading 12-4, Hall took three points running for a convincing victory.
emphatic win/victory/defeat
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But Warrington achieved an emphatic win over Widnes with a highly disciplined performance.
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Cardiff recorded two emphatic victories in 24 hours, winning 9-2 against Whitley Warriors and 13-2 at Billingham.
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It was an emphatic win and a remarkable turnaround in his fortunes.
moral victory
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The protesters have won at least a moral victory.
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Although it saved them substantial costs, these cases were not exactly searing moral victories for the healthcare plans.
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Those are the kinds of moral victories that eluded them in Game 1.
narrow victory/defeat/majority/margin etc
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Adjust the starting point so that you avoid a very narrow margin at the perimeter.
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Crowds gathered in central Lima last Sunday night to cheer his narrow victory over former president Alan Garcia.
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John F.. Kennedy that helped propel the handsome young Massachusetts Democrat to a narrow victory.
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On election night, however, the team squeaked out a narrow victory.
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Surprise! the seventh firm won the tender by a narrow margin.
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Their relatively late arrival in the quarter coupled with their costs and the narrow margins on the surprise Model 20 impacted earnings.
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Was Buzz Calkins' narrow victory over Tony Stewart enough to keep them interested?
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While both developer subsidies passed, the narrow margin clearly indicates the voters of this valley are beginning to wise up.
razor-thin victory/margin
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Years of price wars, for example, have created razor-thin margins in personal computers.
resounding success/victory/defeat etc
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At $ 3. 99, a weekday all-you-can-eat lunch buffet proved a resounding success.
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His foray into biography is also a resounding success.
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It was his most resounding defeat in terms of lengths.
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On the one hand, so many victories; on the other, resounding defeat at Trafalgar in 1805.
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On the other hand, others have described the issue as a resounding success as all the shares were sold.
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That resounding success, moreover, was followed by others.
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The organisers claimed the conference was a resounding success.
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The outcome - a resounding victory for the home team, not that they appeared particularly surprised.
seal a victory/win/match
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Andy Cole's first international goal sealed victory in injury time.
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He then supplied the finishing touch to a 32-pass move to seal victory.
sweeping victory
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The second was a sweeping victory, and the Athenians followed it up by landing troops on Aigina and besieging the town.
taste success/freedom/victory etc
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And Long has yet to taste victory in this tournament, unlike his half-back partner Martyn.
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Others decided to taste freedom in other fields of social activity: speculation on the black market, opening businesses etc.
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They just wanted to taste victory after all that losing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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victory celebrations
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He had won a comfortable victory in the general election.
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The crowds were celebrating Italy's victory .
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Their 2-1 victory over the Australians was completely unexpected.
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We're very confident of victory .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But that does not mean he has yet won a conclusive victory in the debilitating war between president and parliament.
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Florida alone provided nearly one-tenth of the 270 electoral votes required for victory , while Ohio commands 21 votes.
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It looked like victory for Kleomenes.
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Labour's stunning victory in 1997 left the Tory party in denial about the seriousness of its situation.
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Perhaps this represented a human victory over inanimate forces, or perhaps man merely judged it to be so.