Sentence examples for owed victory from inspiring English sources

He owed victory less to his own merits and achievements than to the internal divisions that made the Republican Party all but unelectable.

They made a blistering start in which Daniel James, 21, handed them the lead inside five minutes but owed victory to the performance of the more experienced Wayne Hennessey in goal.

In the end he probably owed victory to the support of Mr Toledo, who won 16% of the vote in April, and of Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru's Nobel laureate for literature.The main doubt about Mr Humala is that he is not Lula.

Our solidarity is first with America, the ally to which we owe victory over Nazism, the friend with whom we jointly affirm the ideal of democracy".

But once elected, the new president doesn't owe victory to his generous donors.

Mr. Fox owed his victory in no small measure to Mr. Zedillo.

He said he owed his victory to how he timed his finish.

Yeltsin owed his victory to the military, the former KGB, and Ministry of Interior forces--not to support from the regions.

Farrukh-Siyar (ruled 1713 19) owed his victory and accession to the Sayyid brothers, ʿAbd Allāh Khan and Ḥusayn ʿAlī Khan Bāraha.

Citigroup also owed its victory to support from PZU, which owns 9.9percentt of the shares in Bank Handlowy.

He bluntly told the operative that the Bush campaign owed his victory in large part to concerned Christian voters.