Sentence examples for perception of winning from inspiring English sources

In this war, the perception of winning is almost the same as winning.

This presidency is all about the perception of "winning" for Trump – no matter the cost to others.

This became evident, for example, in 2008, when the John McCain campaign used the InTrade market to shift perception of his chances of winning.

The paper compares three alternative approaches employed by the Canadian Election Study to measure voters' perceptions of parties' chances of winning in their local constituency.

The perception of who won would become as important as the numbers themselves.

In the end, a mysterious mixture of issues, personalities and performance will flow into the public perception of who won the debates.

— The presidential campaigns roared out of here Saturday morning facing a task arguably as difficult, and as important, as the debate between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain itself: influencing the public perception of who won an encounter that produced no clear winner or loser.

And at the heart of it this is all about delegates, but we can help mold the perception of whoever wins on Tuesday night by ignoring the opportunity to vote for Gingrich or Ron Paul.

The majority of viewers were unaware that the worm had been manipulated, and yet we were able to influence their perception of who won the debate, their choice of preferred prime minister, and their voting intentions.

What scares me is people who try to maintain the perception of being perfect, this image of winning and winning big all the time, because under that brag sheet of accomplishments there is often a mountain of repression, of self-denial and a relentless quest for satisfaction that will probably never come.

The trips are perhaps as much about perception as seats the Tories have a chance of winning.