Sentence examples for first round winning from inspiring English sources

Spearmon was among those easing through the first round, winning his heat in 20.81 seconds.

But last year, struggling with Sjogren's Syndrome, a sluggish Williams lost meekly in the first round, winning just four games against Elena Vesnina.

Yvette Cooper led the group of shadow cabinet members declaring they could not serve under his leadership in the hours after it emerged that the MP for Islington North had won 60% of the vote in the first round, winning in every part of the electoral college including among party members.

Mr. Moreno, whom the Bush administration favored to replace Enrique V. Iglesias of Uruguay at the helm of an institution that disburses more than $5 billion a year in loans, triumphed in the first round, winning the support of 20 of the 28 countries eligible to vote, plus 56percentt of the bank's voting shares.

The CAR faced Equatorial Guinea in a home-and-away series in the first round, winning both matches by scores of 1 0 and 2 0.

The New York Times took on China and, in the first round, won.

The son of Kenya's first post-independence president needed 50 per cent plus one vote to secure a first round win.

Many of the former president's supporters expected a crushing first round win leading to an immediate return to power.

And even with all that, the first round win for Phoenix was still a hell of a close one.

About 85% of the boxers who won the first round won the fight.

McAlinden netted his first senior goal for Wolves in September's Johnstone's Paint Trophy first round win over Walsall.