Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage.
In the 19th century, when the naked female triumphed decisively over the naked male in art, it turned out to be a pyrrhic victory, with women not so much ennobled as reduced to sex objects.
In the annals of the digital copyright wars, major media companies facing the threat of Internet piracy have so far triumphed decisively over their challengers, who argue that the public's interest is being sacrificed to provide copyright holders with greater control.
In fact, whether Obama or Romney wins, Bush's national-security approach will triumph more decisively than it had before Obama took office, when these policies at least elicited real controversy.
Most people agree that a hung result would be bad for the country, and hope that whichever man wins will triumph clearly and decisively.
With the news that Theodore had decisively triumphed over Shahin (supposedly leading Shahin to die from depression), the Avars retreated to the Balkan hinterland within two days, never to threaten Constantinople seriously again.
While Sadiq Khan's legacy will be celebrated as a triumph over base Islamophobia, he needs to act decisively if black, Asian, and other minority ethnic Londoners are to reap any of the benefits of his personal victory against racism.
The Six-Day War is widely considered a military triumph for Israel, with the young nation's army decisively beating the armies of three Arab nations: Egypt in the south, Jordan in the east and Syria in the north.
Recalled to the Prussian high command in 1806, he was decisively defeated at the Battle of Auerstädt, which sealed the triumph of Napoleonic France over Prussia.
Not since Arthur Miller's seminal play Death of a Salesman triumphed in 1949 has a single drama stormed the Tony Awards so decisively.
