Sentence examples for proper winner from inspiring English sources

Would much rather see a proper winner.

"Condorcet came up with the idea that if there is a candidate in a multicandidate race who would beat each of the other candidates in a head-to-head race, that person is the proper winner," Professor Brams said.

That's true, but maybe not enough: "Schindler's List," after all, had an additional awards season storyline of crowning Steven Spielberg as a proper Oscar winner after being snubbed for two decades (he had already won the Irvin Thalberg lifetime achievement award in 1987), a factor that cannot be discounted.

The draw for the first round proper pitched the winners of the replay at home to Oldham.

Is it not correct and proper that the winners of such prestigious awards be able to convene and talk about the state of peace in the world?

Countries will take it in turns, in strict rotation, to have one of the proper jobs.Meanwhile, the real winner is the European Parliament.

He added: "Only by doing so will the winner have proper credibility over the next four years".

It is very rare for an actual prize-winner to get proper laughs, which here were at least partly a ­tribute to the recipient's confidence and sang-froid in having brought off an effective joke when all that was ­expected was slush.

"Only with a contested election will the winner have... a proper, credible mandate.

Only with a contested election will the winner have... a proper, credible mandate" David Bernstein, FA chairman, England.

"A radiantly beautiful sepia girl," he wrote, "who will be a winner when she has proper direction".