AFTER a resounding military victory over the Tamil Tigers, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's president, must have hoped for triumph in the first post-war polls in the scarred north.
For the hope of triumph to triumph, we will need to heed the call of better angels.
Their younger counterpart Pierre Drieu La Rochelle wrote of his "hope for the triumph of totalitarian man," and for a few years, as a Nazi collaborator in Vichy, he got his wish.
During those few weeks in early summer, Three Lions became not only the anthem behind the hopes of triumph for the national side, but also the all-pervading background music to a more general mood of national buoyancy.
It's fair to hope for further triumphs from them all; you could see how soloists and corps dancers were galvanized to new luster by their presence.
The Senate granted a supplicatio (a period of public thanksgiving), although Cicero had hoped for a triumph, a processional return through the city, on his return to Rome.
Eight days after Bradford City upset Arsenal, the Leeds United manager, Neil Warnock, hopes for another triumph of Yorkshire over London in the Capital One Cup tonight.
But hopes for the triumph of an egalitarian notion of free labor were disappointed.
On this understanding, reducing faith to a kind of hope (Section 9 above) would eradicate an important relation between the two namely that people of faith take reality to be such that their hope (for salvation, the triumph of the good) is well founded, and not merely an attractive fantasy or inspiring ideal.
Within this realm hope cannot but triumph (and triumph and triumph) over experience.
But he was involved in the discipline, was currently basking in the British success for his topical volume of political philosophy, The Open Society and Its Enemies, and hoped for greater triumphs.
