But in New York City on marathon day, finishing at all qualified as triumph.
UNITED STATES Chris Armas, who strained ligaments in his left knee in the 7-0 World Cup qualifying triumph over Barbados last Wednesday, will miss the qualifying game against Guatemala Sept. 3 in Washington.
Hamilton's qualifying triumph sets him up to equal Jim Clark's hat-trick of successes in the British Grand Prix but he would become the first driver to win a Silverstone hat-trick because two of Clark's victories were at Aintree and Brands Hatch.
It recounts a life that qualifies as a triumph of art over anarchy, because Mr. Ferguson, who is 47, details how close he came to flushing his talent down a drain of dissolution thanks to heavy drinking and drug use in his youth.
Any sense of English triumph was further qualified by a match in which Australia was clearly the better side and, had the weather not intervened, by far the likelier winner.
The following Olympics brought even greater triumph as Cuba qualified for the quarter-finals in 1980, one of Moreno's last acts as manager before stepping back from the dugout and into the Cuban Football Association's offices in 1981.
A woman can take credit for this: Sonia Gandhi, Congress's leader, who has pushed the long-mothballed bill against a furious band of dissenters of a kind that persuaded previous BJP- and Congress-led governments not to touch it.Yet this triumph must be qualified.
The race was sealed with a brilliant drive from Lewis Hamilton but Ricciardo, who qualified on pole, would have triumphed but for a badly fumbled pit stop.
If both films by these respected veterans, are qualified successes, "Persepolis" is an unqualified triumph.
When triathlete Hunter Kemper realized he had qualified for his fourth Olympic Games, the triumph wasn't over his teammates.
Call in the feds www.democracy.com A dangerous moment A hundred rambunctious days ReprintsOne reason for worry is that last November's triumph was, in fact, a qualified one.
