Sentence examples for believed was winnable from inspiring English sources

The conflict, he believed, was winnable.

But as well as targeting high-profile politicians, the new party will also look to contest seats it believes are winnable.

Wigan travel to second-placed Burnley on Easter Monday before completing their campaign with three more matches they will believe are winnable - at home to Blackpool and away at Birmingham and Blackburn.

"The district attorney's responsibility is not to file cases they don't believe are winnable," he said.

The resulting backlash, from female voters in particular, saw him lose a seat many party officials believed was very winnable.

They have long regarded the prime minister's leadership style as aloof and cliquey, and have neither forgotten nor forgiven his failure to win a general election they believed was eminently winnable.

As Jeffrey Goldberg reports in his cover story in the October issue of the Atlantic, McCain believes that Vietnam was winnable, and that politicians lost that war because they didn't let the military do its job.

When The New York Times examined 24 districts widely believed to be winnable by either party, comparing only one candidate from each party (the nominee or, if none had been chosen, the leading fund-raiser), the advantage was with the Democrats.

He believed then and never ceased to believe that the war was winnable if fought with sound tactics and strategy.

This victory ultimately cost Napoleon his army, as it allowed the French emperor to believe that the campaign was winnable, exhausting his forces as he went on to Moscow to await a surrender that would never come.

Not only was he opposed to détente, which he saw as an American ploy to dupe the Soviet Union; Kulikov also believed that a nuclear war was winnable.