If a party is an assemblage that exists to win office and exercise power, then there is simply no room for a sizable third party in the United States..
The paradox Carr advances is that both sides -- insurgent groups and resisting states -- are more likely to win when they exercise restraint, that is, when they battle each other directly rather than slaughtering the civilians in between.
"Music and exercise make for a winning combination," Dr. Costas Karageorghis from Brunel University in London, said in a statement for music-streaming service Spotify.
My muscles also crave exercise, and that's a winning combination.
Their last LP was Mercury-shortlisted, they will headline festivals this summer and their terrific third LP feels like an exercise in fine-tuning a winning formula.
In short, the conviction that conflict will not win produces a willingness to exercise self-restraint without forcing a test of strength.
Bringing the ransom price down is a nerve-racking waiting game that can be won only by exercising the cool deliberation of a high-stakes poker player.
Critics like Walter Byers, a former N.C.A.A. executive director, have complained of a "neo-plantation" system of college sports in which athletes are pawns while high-priced coaches and athletic directors — under pressure to win — exercise the power of kings.
And so it goes on, his capsule biography reduced merely to a list of prizes won, to an exercise in self-aggrandisement.
We were winning, exercising the human mandate to "have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth".
