Sentence examples for mere victory from inspiring English sources

The Japanese learned painfully to dismiss the military's rhetoric along with their own delusions as mere "victory disease".

For Kenyans in this remote town, widely acclaimed for the marathon talent it produces, a mere victory is insufficient.

He would settle for a mere victory, and the familiar rewards that came with it — a fat cigar, a bubbly shower and the promise of another series.

But nearly everyone — from the toll collector to the investment banker — is astonished that the Jets are a mere victory from their first Super Bowl appearance in 41 years.

Instead, there was the novelty of mere victory, with Kitajima leading at the end of each lap and showing off his superior underwater skills at the start and after each turn.

He explains his slide from inevitability to mere victory as the product of Governor Corzine's negative campaign ads.

The number in question is 800, a milestone that Sutton found himself a mere two victories from when he resigned in May 2006 as the basketball coach at Oklahoma State.

With the coach, Mirsad Jonuz, keeping faith with his pledge to deploy his players in an aggressive 4-3-3 formathen whenever the occasion allowed, there was a sufficiency of threats from the yellow shirts to remind the home supporters of their own team's flaws through a campaign that had yielded a mere two victories from six previous outings, both against the bottom country, Iceland.

Traditionally a graveyard, Doral's final hole was a mere formality, a victory march, a chance for Big Easy to taste the sweet smell of success.

But the mere thought of victory for this former metal-worker and trade-union leader has shaken the already shaky financial markets, and created signs of panic among Mr Cardoso's supporters.

Neither was a sure thing, but these are mere scraps of victory, indeed.