Within days of winning the nomination his tone changed.
Now, the days of winning by attrition -- waiting out the mistakes of Venus or Serena or Capriati or Lindsay Davenport -- have disappeared.
Within days of winning in Delhi he was back at school, studying for A-levels and training for the next competition.
Bidders register with a credit card and must sign contracts within two days of winning an auction or incur a $5,000 charge.
George Osborne, the Conservative chancellor of the exchequer, promised before the election to deliver an "emergency" budget to tackle Britain's deficit within 50 days of winning power.
OF ALL Labour's measures since 1997, its shake-up of the Bank of England within days of winning power was the most talismanic.
After the halcyon days of winning league titles and major trophies in front of crowds of over 15,000, the numbers dipped under the 6,000 mark last year, as the club slid out of the elite with a whimper.
Within days of winning it Cameron appointed John Whittingdale, long an advocate of drastically shrinking the BBC, as his culture secretary, responsible for negotiating the BBC's charter, which sets out how the corporation operates, and which expires next year.
A Conservative government would set by pupil ability and would, within 100 days of winning an election, identify the "very worst" schools, by which Gove means those that have been placed in special measures by Oftsed for more than a year.
Yet within days of winning a second term at the head of a minority government, Stephen Harper, the Conservative prime minister, admitted that "global economic instability" meant that next year's budget might involve a deficit.That makes sense: governments across the world are resorting to deficit spending as their economies slide into recession.
In Formula 1 racing, the days of winning races based on gut instinct are waning.
