Sentence examples for managed to triumph from inspiring English sources

Needing to win by 11 clear goals against Malta, they missed a penalty but still managed to triumph 12-1.

He tells this glorious story about how this guy managed to triumph over all sorts of adverse conditions in this perfectly awful state of nature".

But today we come not to bury England, but to praise them, by focusing instead on the one shootout they actually managed to triumph in, against Spain at Wembley in the quarter-finals of Euro 1996.

Frank has only disdain for Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International: Mr. Zakaria's trademark style, in case you happen to be quizzed, is to noodle aimlessly through world history, wondering why the West managed to triumph over the East and expressing amazement at unremarkable things.

But Barra meanwhile has managed to triumph.

The official meets many troubles but manages to triumph.

Even the crack-addled instructor played by Ryan Gosling in "Half Nelson" manages to triumph.

But Sarah's remarkable journey manages to triumph over these lapses, and her death in her dream of dreams on the Hudson is deeply moving.

There are plenty of bullies on the prowl in these reassuring storybooks, but the pint-size protagonists always manage to triumph.

The structure of the fairy tale has always been one in which the heroine starts out in good shape (daughter of a king, for example), loses what she has and finally manages to triumph against all odds.

Dowd cannot stand the fact that "At her victory party, Hillary was like the heroine of a Lifetime movie, a woman in peril who manages to triumph".