Sentence examples for term win from inspiring English sources

"London-based carbon-measuring startup AMEE's funding deal with USV, TAG and O'Reilly is just the beginning of shrewd investors taking risks in areas they think are solid over the medium to longer term rather than just trying to get a shorter term win.

The real long term win for the networks is to build a commercial relationship directly with advertisers.

Nevertheless, experiments have shown that computers playing against each other do develop (and discard) strategies, and over the long term win a higher percentage of games than they could by random guessing.

So, all told, a $55 million opening for this glorified cult film is a huge short term win for Warner Bros. It's a show of unparalleled marketing might and is a good omen for the upcoming DC properties (Jonah Hex, Green Lantern).

So, I use the term "win" here not to indicate it was a battle of "us" versus "them".

In the wider sense they are, but it requires a pretty loose definition of the term "win".

The side it supported in the last term won 13 of 16 cases.

Senator John Kerry coasted to a fourth term, winning easily over a Libertarian candidate.

Mr Fujimori's regime collapsed after he illegally sought a third term, winning a rigged election in 2000.

That may be one reason why he barely squeaked to a second term, winning the run-off by less than six percentage points.

And yet his record, his personality and his circumstances show that he can escape being poleaxed, and even have a successful term, winning over some of the skeptical.