Each party produced a set of returns, claimed victory and accused the other of fraud and voter intimidation.
By Ian Crouch October 15, 2013 Sunday night's iconic baseball image is a moment frozen in time: the Tiger right fielder Torii Hunter's upturned legs paired with the jubilant, outstretched arms of a Boston bullpen cop to make a set of V's — victory and defeat, thrill and agony, all in one frame.
Sunday night's iconic baseball image is a moment frozen in time: the Tiger right fielder Torii Hunter's upturned legs paired with the jubilant, outstretched arms of a Boston bullpen cop to make a set of V's — victory and defeat, thrill and agony, all in one frame.
Simon, 28, had lost his last three matches against Federer, including a 6-1 6-2 drubbing in Rome last month, but now playing more aggressively the Frenchman reeled off nine of the next 12 games to move within a set of a famous victory.
But in recent days, Ethiopia has been working to promote what it sees as an early set of victories in a war that it says it wants to end quickly because it costs too much for a poor country where eight million people face severe food shortages.
To date, they have rejected several opportunities to do so, and the evidence probably weighs against their doing so now, but a decisive set of victories in different parts of the country would allow Mr. Romney to make a credible pitch to voters and party elites.
The man himself may have left for Jordan (after Jordan finally signed a treaty guaranteeing his safety) but he did so not at the behest of the courts but after a 4 2 set of victories that left the home secretary on the ropes and sagging.
"It was really a remarkable set of victories last night," Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, said in a conference call by activists with reporters.
Back then, Mr. Bush's 38-page "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq" defined victory with a set of short-, medium- and long-term goals whose accomplishment, he said, would guide the withdrawal of troops.
