Sentence examples for took winning from inspiring English sources

But I guarantee you that it's not because we were complacent, or that we took winning for granted.

Mickelson didn't either, but he did what it took, winning in front of a partisan gallery in the city where he grew up.

His stock in trade was the wink, the nod and the empty smile, and the men who worked on the outer reaches of his universe despised him for his cheapness, his cunning and, as one of them, Frank Graham Jr. said, the way he affected the "Irish pol manqué." The men closer to him admired his intelligence and understood that his was the game of making money, even if he took winning far too seriously.

It took winning an auction and then actually buying the item to understand just how unattractive the whole scheme is.

General Petraeus and McChrystal, especially, took winning hearts and minds very seriously, and implemented a number of tactics to reach out to the populations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

It took winning several competitions for Boerboon to be invited to join the John Klatt Airshows team the group that produced this weekend's show and to ultimately fly the Screamin' Sasquatch.

Still Appleby was not taking winning for granted.

"We take winning seriously," Hank St. Denis, the league director, said.

It takes winning compliance from taxpayers and from "the controllers of capital and jobs".

Wales, which traditionally prizes attractive rugby, has instead taken "winning ugly" to new levels.

Take winning, for example, long revered as a cardinal American virtue.