Sentence examples for was essentially won from inspiring English sources

Churchill, once the war was essentially won, became a futile defender of the dying British empire.

The Cold War was essentially won by Ronald Reagan when he embarked on the Star Wars program and the Soviet Union understood that it could not take this next step.

Beauregard believed that the battle was essentially won and his men could finish off Grant in the morning.

But last year's titles were essentially won through an advantage at the start of the season due to a controversial reading of the technical rules.

I had a lot of trepidation about doing it, because he is exposed to injury in a game that is essentially won".

People who feel that now we have marriage, the battle is essentially won.

In states such as these, winning the primary is, essentially, winning the election.

The Afghan fighters have a clear mission and I think their spirits are high, since they are essentially winning.

The Manchester City squad that won the title in 2014 was essentially the one that won it in 2012, the one constructed by Roberto Mancini and the former chief executive Garry Cook, men whose names are never now mentioned around the Etihad Campus.

This, after all, was essentially the strategy which won him the leadership.

This was essentially the argument that won the day in April, when the Palestinians reluctantly agreed to defer any unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood until after the Israeli elections.But now those elections have come and gone, Mr Barak is riding high, settlements are being built and Mr Arafat is looking like a man with nothing in his pockets except his hands.