Sentence examples for prevailed decisively from inspiring English sources

With the exception of the first Iraq war, we have not prevailed decisively in any major war since World War II.

After winning his debut easily at Delaware Park, Union Rags quickly moved into stakes-level races and prevailed decisively in the mud in his next outing in the Saratoga Special at Saratoga Race Course a month later.

Mr. Santorum had prevailed, decisively, with 412 votes, compared with 189 for Mr. Paul, 170 for Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and 150 for Mr. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts.

Scranton entered instead, but Goldwater prevailed decisively at the 1964 Republican National Convention.

It is a source of pride to me, and it should be a source of pride to all in Labor, that we have prevailed so decisively and written this next chapter of our national story.

With calculations suggesting he could barely muster a majority among his own colleagues this time, he was perhaps also keen to avoid another humiliating outcome.Having prevailed so decisively once again, Ms Gillard has stabilised her command of the party in a way that did not seem possible even a fortnight ago.

Otherwise, we could re-litigate every playoff game in history where the underdog decisively prevailed.

Indeed, he argues that the Iraq war "has caused calamitous damage to America's global standing," demonstrating that the United States "was able neither to rally the world to its cause nor to decisively prevail by use of arms".

Confident that such distortions and ignorance will prevail, Khartoum has moved decisively onto the military offensive.

The determination to act decisively and prevail is, certainly, laudable, but not enough to resolve the Somalia crisis.

Ray said his group expected to prevail, but not so decisively.