The phrase "a small victorious" is not correct in standard written English as it lacks a noun to complete the thought.
It could be used in a context where "victorious" is intended to describe a noun that is missing, such as "a small victorious moment" or "a small victorious team."
Example: "After the match, the coach celebrated a small victorious moment that boosted the team's morale."
Alternatives: "a minor victory" or "a small triumph."
He added, "They needed a small victorious war".
When Russia launched a "small victorious war" against Chechnya in 1994, nationalism was the main cause.
In 1994, Boris Yeltsin instigated the First Chechen War — what the head of his security council predicted would be a "small victorious war" to retake the region.
Nigel Morris GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS Franks's career was at its apex after Afghanistan in 2001, which at the time was a small victorious war with the Taliban, won with minimal American and British casualties.
"We can thank the Georgians for a small victorious war; it was helpful for our nation, for Russia," said Oleg Sergienko, a 38-year-old lawyer who was visiting the exhibition.
Most probably, as Carlotta Gall and Thomas de Waal argue in "Chechnya: A small victorious war" (Pan Books, 1997), it was because they had resisted Stalinist collectivisation, and would be the natural leaders of the mountain peoples in any future insurgency.
In 1994, Yeltsin invaded, encouraged by a circle of advisers who promised a "small and victorious war".
Uruguay, which won the inaugural tournament and won again in 1950, has been the smallest victorious country to date.
The hodgepodge center-right coalition that appears likely to emerge victorious includes a small neo-Fascist party of Mussolini nostalgists and a northern separatist party that routinely inveighs against immigrants, Muslims and homosexuals in phrases that Jörg Haider of Austria would not repeat in public.
The Turks were indeed waiting to attack, but in a small battle outside Ephesus, the French were victorious.
Major scandals notwithstanding, Abe's Liberal Democratic party [LDP] and its junior coalition partner will emerge victorious next month, perhaps with a small dent in their two-thirds majority in the lower house.
