Sentence examples for act of winning from inspiring English sources

Then, just as medal was verbed to describe the act of winning a medal, podium could follow suit as a verb of achievement.

It mightn't be anything as dramatic as an inferiority complex but the Australians didn't look like a team who were used to the act of winning on Sunday.

So to this group, with no tradition to follow or expectations established, the act of winning a game, even in the preseason, had significance.

Although she hands it back only days later, the act of winning and her performance in recent weeks, marks her as a real possibility for the final.

The Robins went down 1-0 at home to Brentford in midweek, prompting a typically colourful response from their eccentric Italian manager who compared the act of winning football matches at this time of year to stocking up on wood for the fire during the cold winter months.

Public diplomacy is a field predicated on the communication of culture and values to foreign publics; gastrodiplomacy, most plainly put, is the act of winning hearts and minds through stomachs.

She doesn't wear makeup ("My own form of vanity"), but one of her first acts on winning the £15,000 prize money was to buy a cashmere cardigan.

The two put dozens of participants through a series of four experiments in order to see how they acted in the aftermath of winning and losing various competitions.

The Act of Killing won the documentary prize at the Baftas last week and is the favourite to win the much-coveted Oscar.

This act of moderation won him much praise.

The committee's vigorous campaign to have the Beachy case dismissed, based on the First Amendment's religious freedom protections and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, won wide support.