Sentence examples for small victorious from inspiring English sources

He added, "They needed a small victorious war".

When Russia launched a "small victorious war" against Chechnya in 1994, nationalism was the main cause.

In 1994, Boris Yeltsin instigated the First Chechen War — what the head of his security council predicted would be a "small victorious war" to retake the region.

Nigel Morris GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS Franks's career was at its apex after Afghanistan in 2001, which at the time was a small victorious war with the Taliban, won with minimal American and British casualties.

"We can thank the Georgians for a small victorious war; it was helpful for our nation, for Russia," said Oleg Sergienko, a 38-year-old lawyer who was visiting the exhibition.

Most probably, as Carlotta Gall and Thomas de Waal argue in "Chechnya: A small victorious war" (Pan Books, 1997), it was because they had resisted Stalinist collectivisation, and would be the natural leaders of the mountain peoples in any future insurgency.

Uruguay, which won the inaugural tournament and won again in 1950, has been the smallest victorious country to date.

In 1994, Yeltsin invaded, encouraged by a circle of advisers who promised a "small and victorious war".

In 1972 he won the 1972 Drama Desk Outstanding Performance Award for his portrayal of the bigoted dying basketball coach hosting a 20th-anniversary reunion of his victorious small-town Catholic high school team in the original production of Jason Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play That Championship Season (Booth Theatre, 1972-74).

Sure, Crouch is not going to lead England to victory at the World Cup, but England have a vanishingly small chance of emerging victorious whether Crouch features at the tournament or not.

He said the Games had maintained their spirit as an international symbol of nations joining together for honest competition in a setting where even the smallest countries can be victorious.