Sentence examples for formally won from inspiring English sources

Even after such battles have been formally won, however, deep-rooted prejudices often remain intact and hinder substantive integration and equality.

White House officials had hoped the hostile talk was just for domestic campaign purposes, but even after Mr. Putin formally won re-election he kept it up.

The government formally won its case, but in my view the remedies were trivial, and society missed an opportunity to save millions of lives.

In the referendum of 2012, the 'yes' side formally won although voter turnout amounted to less than 10%% of those who had the right to vote.

| Updated TAMPA, Fla .– Mitt Romney's quest to formally win the Republican Party's presidential nomination is coming two days earlier than expected.

His rise has dismayed establishment Republicans whose best hope of derailing his insurgent candidacy is to stretch the contest out and deny him the 1,237 delegates needed to formally win the party's presidential nomination, leaving its convention in Cleveland to decide.

Otherwise, the 40-year-old is expected to call it a day when formally winning a 20th successive title at the jump-racing season's Sandown finale a fortnight later.

For a presidential candidate to release such a list before the election – or, in Trump's case, even before formally winning the nomination – is highly unusual.

The party, known formally as the Islamic Resistance Movement, won on a slogan of "change and reform" and will probably focus first on issues relating to corruption, unemployment and education after forming a government.

United Russia, which is not formally a political party, won a large plurality in the Dec. 7 election and now controls at least 300 seats in the 450-seat assembly, or Duma.

During the same month, the equally striking velodrome – scene of some of Britain's most memorable medal wins – formally became part of the larger Lee Valley VeloPark, catering for cyclists of all types and abilities.