Sentence examples for claimed glory from inspiring English sources

In 416 B.C. Alcibiades, a brilliant but unreliable Athenian aristocrat, entered seven chariots in the Olympics and took first, second and fourth prizes, winning, as he claimed, glory for his city, but also popularity and prestige for himself.

Sunday's win formed Armitstead's second victory of the year after she claimed glory in the Omloop van het Hageland - Tielt-Winge in Belgium on 4 March.

He claimed "Glory to the savior of Chile!", in reference to San Martín, who praised him for going to the battlefield with his unhealed wound.

P14-15 Daily Star Chris Evans claiming glory for new Top Gear team.

RARELY have American generals seemed less keen to claim glory on the battlefield.

National leaders always claim glory for Europe's successes, and pour scorn on Brussels for its failures.

The London Olympics sees tennis return to the grass courts of West London and give the Scot another chance to claim glory at the home of British tennis.

Gibbs, 19, is a Stanford rising junior who claimed double glory at the N.C.A.A. championships in Athens, Ga., in May.

Make no mistake: Whatever they're wearing, these women in the uniforms are often incredible athletes who, like all football players, want to smash some skulls and claim glory for their team.

According to Montse Fernandez Vila, the director of the film called 1968: I lived the Spanish May, Franco was determined to claim Eurovision glory for his own country.

They feared the French Finance Minister was under instructions from the Elysée Palace not to agree anything of substance so that Nicolas Sarkozy could claim the glory by announcing a grand plan at the European Council in Brussels the following week.