Example sentences of "triumph [prep] [noun] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on St Cecilia 's : ‘ The school represents ‘ the triumph of hope over despair , of faith over doubt ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Celebrating a triumph of heart over mind |
| 5 | Theirs was a triumph of history over geography , of imagination over reality . |
| 6 | Clearly , like many other crimes of the powerful , corporate crime is a ‘ legitimate racket ’ — to recall Al Capone 's famous phrase — which displays the ‘ triumph of money over conscience ’ . |
| 7 | • One senior Mercedes-Benz executive admitted the vulgar V12 badge on the C-pillar of the S-class was a triumph of marketing over design and quickly added that it was a delete option intended for the Japanese and Americans . |
| 8 | As a result , Constantine 's victory over Maxentius came to represent a miraculous triumph of Christianity over paganism . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Annual Conference at Northampton in May 1992 was a triumph of willpower over weakness . |
| 12 | These clips are a triumph of form over content , and by the time you reach the four live songs that close this boxful of banging and shouting , it 's a relief to know that at least this is roughly what they 're really like when they 're not busy being hyperactive . |
| 13 | Devouring animals ( eg lions , griffins , dolphins , snakes and panthers ) symbolise the triumph of death over life . |
| 14 | It 's incredible : it 's the triumph of commercialism over culture and our whole history ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Triumphant death ’ , as it came to be called by Evangelicals , was , first and foremost , a triumph with Christ over death ; in St Paul 's words , ‘ Death is swallowed up in victory . ’ |