Example sentences of "to victory " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confirmation by Brucan on Jan. 23 that the NSF would field candidates in the forthcoming elections ( rescheduled to May 20 ) brought around 2,000 demonstrators back to Victory Square on Jan. 24 . |
| 2 | Here , for example , is an extract from a memorandum to a US delegate to the Paris Peace Conference by Lawrence of Arabia , who had led the Arabs to victory while torturing himself with the secret knowledge of his part in their betrayal : ‘ On 1 October ( 1918 ) , the people of Beyrout , in emulation of the Damascenes , turned on their Turkish garrison of 700 men , and took them prisoner … |
| 3 | The £2,000 which Andy Austin collected , by finishing fourth on Elusive and sixth on Zobias , was considerably more than the meagre £240 he won when riding River Hill to victory in yesterday 's first leg of the Grade A Championship . |
| 4 | Launching its autumn campaign in Edinburgh , the party revealed that the twin themes of independence in Europe and ‘ fighting for Scotland better than Labour ever can or will ’ would form its ‘ springboard to victory ’ . |
| 5 | DAVID BRABHAM took his Ralt Spiess VW to victory in the penultimate round of the British Formula Three championship at Silverstone yesterday in a race shortened by four laps after a four-car pile up on the first lap . |
| 6 | But Andrew said this last April , after leading the North to victory over the US , and the sharply increased requirements — club , divisional and national - of a new season have rapidly changed his , and Carling 's , mind . |
| 7 | Boxing : Stretch takes the short cut to victory |
| 8 | SUNDAY : Michael Kinane , Ireland 's champion jockey , wins the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on the British-trained 19-1 outsider , Carroll House , a day after partnering The Caretaker to victory in the Cartier Million , Europe 's most valuable race . |
| 9 | Alan Munro powers ‘ Battle of Britain ’ to victory in the EBF Saffron Maiden Stakes at Lingfield in June 1991 . |
| 10 | Britain in 1918 was deeply impressed with the strategic and military contribution made by those nations to victory in Europe and assumed it to be proof of the success of the Canadian model , to which the second Labour Government in 1931 gave statutory form , rather like catching moonbeams , by declaring in the Statute of Westminster preamble that the common identity of the sovereign was of the essence . |
| 11 | Peter led both Tottenham Angling Centre and Jubilee AS to victory and has experienced men like former Essex County boss Dennis Salmon and Division Four National runner-up Dave Dunstone to call on . |
| 12 | Graham Hill on his way to victory at Goodwood in 1962 , BRM 's best year ( left ) . |
| 13 | It had played no small part in tranquillizing things at home and inspiring ‘ national will to victory ’ , and that was earnestly acknowledged by the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 14 | His inexperience over hurdles should not be a bar to victory here . |
| 15 | Then there is Phil Larder , the third member of the management team which led Great Britain to victory over Australia in Sydney last year and to a 2-1 series win over New Zealand recently . |
| 16 | Then there is Phil Larder , the third member of the management team which led Great Britain to victory over Australia in Sydney last year and to a 2-1 series win over New Zealand recently . |
| 17 | As the picture shows , Mrs Perdigao ( right , with the wife of President Mario Soares , left , at the prize-winning ceremony ) took the view that turning up is the key to victory . |
| 18 | Finlay Calder , the Scottish player who led the Lions to victory in Australia , and is now in his final season at the age of 32 , receives the OBE. |
| 19 | But the reason they can not press on to victory is transparent : the central planning dear to people like Mr Li and Mr Chen stands no chance of coping with 20m or more urban unemployed , a labour force that will grow by 95m in the next five years and rising expectations of wealth . |
| 20 | But the chances are that the momentum of this week 's success will carry his Christian Democrats to victory in West Germany 's election in December and then in all of Germany next year . |
| 21 | Greenidge and Richards went cheaply , but only two more wickets were lost in strolling to victory . |
| 22 | PHILIPPE ROZIER , who has just finished a three-month ban after Oscar Minotiere was found over the permitted limit of the painkiller , butazolidine , rode the same horse to victory for France in the Euro Horse Trophy in Gothenberg yesterday , writes Alan Smith . |
| 23 | With five regulars missing they rarely tested former colleague Woods in the Wednesday goal and it was Sheridan , another of Hillsborough 's former Forest contingent , who set them on the way to victory . |
| 24 | Goals in the first five minutes by Dennis Greene and Keith Scott set the Buckinghamshire side on the path to victory , but they had to wait until the 68th minute before Simon Stapleton settled the issue . |
| 25 | HENRY WHARTON plans to take the short route to victory at Leeds Town Hall tonight when he defends his Commonwealth super-middleweight title against Australian Rod Carr , the man he beat to win it last year . |
| 26 | Tormented by allegations of adultery , draft evasion , and venality , he has limped through to victory with an empty campaign , crafted to avoid giving offence to anybody . |
| 27 | Mr Gordon Brown , Labour 's trade and industry spokesman , swept to victory in Dunfermline East with 62.4 per cent of the vote and a majority of over 17,000 . |
| 28 | Dr Berisha , a 47-year-old cardiologist who led his Democratic Party to victory in legislative elections last month , becomes Albania 's first non-communist President . |
| 29 | Yet , only a few days ago , Labour 's campaign seemed to be swinging to victory . |
| 30 | Leicester 3 , Barnsley 1 A SECOND successive Gary Mills penalty helped Leicester City to victory and took them well into the promotion play-off frame after an awkward encounter at Filbert Street , writes Henry Morton . |