Sentence examples for because of a victory from inspiring English sources

In a significant upset, Vachier-Lagrave won the event, partly because of a victory over Caruana in Round 7. Caruana adopted the Berlin Defense, which Vladimir Kramnik used to defeat Garry Kasparov in the 2000 World Chess Championship.

Notre Dame (26-1, 15-1) will share the title with Connecticut, but the Fighting Irish will be the top-seeded team in the coming conference tournament because of a victory over the then top-ranked Huskies on Jan . 15

Bush (R) stepped into the case in dramatic fashion in October 2003 when he persuaded the Florida legislature to pass a law that gave him the authority to order doctors to resume tube-feeding Schiavo six days after the feeding had been stopped because of a victory by Michael Schiavo in state court.

But as least Diaz doesn't have to worry about any complicated math at this point because anything short of a victory Saturday earns his team another long trip, this time back to Paraguay.

To advocates, that's not much of a victory, because both are vastly underfunded.

A bitterly disappointed Daniel Ricciardo, who was robbed of a victory because of a bad Red Bull pit-stop after starting on pole, said: "Two weekends in a row now I've been screwed.

Even if Mr. Bush carries Florida, the Gore campaign can claim something of a victory, because the Bush camp and the Republican Party have spent more than $4 million in advertisements here since the Democratic convention.

Still, the union had to regard the agreement as somewhat of a victory because it replaced a system in which there was no minimum.

"It's very difficult to start a round and go low like this and then follow it up, because the expectations are anything short of a victory is a failure," he said.

If there was a spring in the step of those in red and white, it was not just because of an unlikely victory against Southampton, it was because the gap to their free-falling north-east rivals Newcastle is now just two points.

The Bruins got their wish because of an 84-59 victoverover Stanford in the MGM Grand Garden Arena.