Giuliani triumphed over a tired left-liberalism.
"We believe conscience will surely triumph over the evil forces," he said.
The university chaplain, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., took a prominent role in opposing the war, and many undergraduates viewed the resignation of Richard M. Nixon as a triumph over the forces of evil.
The film's witnesses are now in their 90s, but in many cases extremely unfrail, almost as if kept in a kind of pain-racked vigour and electrified by the agony of memory, and by their determination to survive, to bear witness, to enforce a personal triumph over the forces of evil.
Despite the U.S. not posting any forces to oppose the occupation of those islands, the Japanese public was informed of a great triumph over U.S. forces on the islands.
Signed Osama bin Laden, it looked like a call to arms from the FBI's most wanted man, calling on "our beloved brothers" to "triumph over the infidel forces and the forces of tyranny, and to destroy the new Jewish-Christian crusader campaign on the soil of Pakistan and Afghanistan". Bin Laden, it seemed, was preparing for war.
He has every right to be proud of his achievement, carried out in the face of opposition from entrenched interests.But there is a gap in his tale of triumph over the forces of reaction, those he calls the "cultural buffaloes", the "old soldiers, sniping with their muskets".
In an end to signs he was softening his stance, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela vowed to triumph over attempts to force him out.
"We trust that the peaceful and popular will of the people shall triumph over force and oppression".
Compassion and kindness triumph over the forces of forgetfulness.
He was the proof that, indeed, the forces of reason could triumph over the forces of madness.
