But Bauer allows her characters conditional victories, which may be the most realistic, and the most important, of all.
As John Broder and I report in The New York Times, Shell won a big victory by gaining conditional approval from the Interior Department for its plan to drill for oil in the Beaufort Sea off the North Slope of Alaska.
The figure below reflects the actuarial odds of Mr. Ryan running for president, winning his nomination, and winning the election in some future November, conditional upon different margins of victory or defeat for him and Mr. Romney this year.
"Our victory won't be conditional on what happens outside this country," Iglesias told reporters at a news conference last month.
(The conditional is a condition.
Merkel issued a statement after Trump's victory saying close cooperation was conditional on the continuation of shared values between the two democracies.
Amidst the recent troubling news that Shell Oil has received conditional approval to drill in Arctic waters, a separate, critical victory for the larger Arctic ecosystem was overshadowed.
His roster includes Aidan Coleman, last year's champion conditional rider, Joe Tizzard and Leighton Aspell while Sam Thomas, who rode Denman to victory in the 2008 Cheltenham Gold Cup, joined Stronge when he launched his career as an agent.
The delay of the letter and the conditional assurances given in its absence were characteristic of the half steps and partial victories in their long-running struggle for justice.
Champion trainer Nicholls finally gained a victory at the 2013 meeting when his nephew Harry Derham scored in the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys Handicap Hurdle. .
It's been a while since we've heard much about vigilante pedophile hunters in Canada, perhaps because of a certain Creep Catcher's conviction earlier this year, but now a spinoff group calling themselves "Kelowna Creep Hunters" can claim some victory (or at least some approximation of it) after a 2016 sting led to a sheriff's one-year conditional sentence.
