Example sentences of "the triumph of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increasing irrelevance of legislative norms , the disappearance of the inner club and the triumph of individualism in the Senate are partly accounted for by the decline of the influence of the South in the chamber , although changing leadership styles have also had an effect . |
| 2 | It ratified the triumph of history over all the sciences , though ‘ history ’ in this connection was generally confused by contemporaries with ‘ progress ’ . |
| 3 | The declaration , with its renewed emphasis on the importance of unity and on the obstacles to it , reads like the triumph of hope over experience : ‘ We urge our clergy and faithful not to neglect or undervalue that certain yet imperfect communion we already share . |
| 4 | Miss Caroline Crawford , the authority 's spokesman , said : ‘ We can all sneer at people who are caught out by outrageous offers , but it is often a case of the triumph of hope over experience . |
| 5 | And on St Cecilia 's : ‘ The school represents ‘ the triumph of hope over despair , of faith over doubt ’ . |
| 6 | The exhibition examines the close political links between the art of nineteenth-century Italy and the changing political situation throughout that period , with particular reference to four periods : 1797 to 1814 , the years of Napoleon ; the restoration of the monarchy until mid-century ; the triumph of Realism in tandem with the move towards Unification , 1849 to 1870 ; and the period from 1870 to the end of century when Realism was influenced by European art , leading to the development of Italian Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 7 | Olsen has therefore concentrated on four periods when the paintings connect most directly with historic events : from 1797 to 1814 when Napoleon 's Empire imposed a kind of unity on the country ; from the restoration of the monarchy until mid century when historic Romanticism came into conflict with Realism and gradually waned as a moving force in Italian art ; the triumph of Realism in parallel with the rapid progress towards unification from 1849 to 1870 ; and the final period from 1870 until the end of the century when Realism evolved under wider European influences into Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 8 | He looked round , acknowledging the triumph of logic by a small rocking movement of the head . |
| 9 | He was working against the natural grain of his genius , and the fact that he went on to write two more plays suggests the triumph of will over natural capacity , of idea over sensibility . |
| 10 | Hindenburg , following the triumph of Tannenberg in August 1914 , was now a German hero and could , in effect , reverse Schlieffen 's plan : that is , seek a decisive victory in the east while merely containing the Western Front . |
| 11 | Within a few years some observers even began to sense in his reforms the triumph of capitalism over Communism , in that the USSR seemed to be adopting Western methods . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , for a number of writers the essential point is not so much that these ideas on unemployment and social welfare were new , as that a broad political consensus developed around them which achieved its apotheosis in the triumph of Keynesianism in 1947 [ Booth , 1983 ; 1984 ] . |
| 13 | The coalition facilitated a realignment from the two-party Liberal-Unionist contest in 1914 to the Labour-Conservative battles of the late 1920s ; only with the triumph of coalition in 1916 did the old politics die , and only with the destruction of coalitionism in 1924 could the new politics be born . |
| 14 | It 's incredible : it 's the triumph of commercialism over culture and our whole history ’ . |
| 15 | The great wall girdle wall was decorated and inscribed with the drama of " The Triumph of Horus over His Enemies " , with which Imhotep appears to have become connected . |
| 16 | " The Triumph of Horus over his Enemies " is shown in relief scenes with inscriptions on the inner face of the great girdle wall of the Ptolemaic temple of Horus at Edfu . |
| 17 | Devouring animals ( eg lions , griffins , dolphins , snakes and panthers ) symbolise the triumph of death over life . |
| 18 | In the case of the pine , these are ruggedness and fortitude ; the early-flowering cherry suggests the triumph of Spring over Winter , and so on . |
| 19 | Instances of cruelty and mania , in O'Brian and Forester , are not minimised , but they are subordinate to the drive of a story towards the traditional and expected ending in the triumph of right over wrong , of good over evil . |
| 20 | At the Fifth Congress the colonial question began to be perceived as an essential factor for the triumph of socialism on a world scale . |