Sentence examples for approaching victory from inspiring English sources

The army says it has corralled the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam into a thin coastal strip and is approaching victory.But the Tigers are not the only ones caught in the trap.

It is the banner of your approaching victory!".

Plenty of people (myself included) publicly and loudly denounced administration strategies in both cases, warning that military force would not solve our problem and that neither would bring anything remotely approaching "victory".

Even if they are momentarily united against the regime, once they approach victory, their unity splits, they engage in a deadly fight, often more cruel than against the shared enemy.

With more announcements like Merck's, something approaching comprehensive victory may one day be imaginable.

The coach, too, is as mystified as anyone about how a team that ranks in the bottom half in 10 of 16 statistical categories in the Big East has an 8-6 league record and is approaching 20 victories.

This week's blogfest about Iraq on Cif, with its hundreds of diverse postings, shows how unpersuaded most people are by Bush's claim of victory accomplished or the only slightly less brash claim of victory approaching, made on CiF by Oliver Kamm.

And while it was a less than satisfying win for the Packers (3-1), it did not feel like anything approaching a moral victory for the Lions (0-4), whaveave lost their last 20 games against the Packers in Wisconsin.

Karma is not the only reason the Yankees could approach 114 victories again.

To approach 114 victories, the Yankees would have to muster that almost incomprehensible will once more.

Welch and Stone won the A.L. Cy Young Award, but neither approached 20 victories in any other season.