Sentence examples for was recently won from inspiring English sources

The House seat he left after four years was recently won by Mark Amodei, a Republican and a former state senator.

Our richest literary prize was recently won by Alexis Wright, an indigenous woman, for a novel – Carpentaria – that fuses indigenous and European storytelling ways.

A similar battle was recently won by a coalition of Latino parishioners, Irish-American organizations and the serendipity of an anonymous donor who gave $20 million to save St .Brigid's Church, in the East Village, which was built by Irish immigrants in the 1840s.

It's a bet that investors are recently winning.

Claire-Louise Bennett, whose debut short-story collection Pond was recently published, won £3,000 as the runner-up with her story Morning, Noon and Night, which depicts a single day in the life of a failed academic.

It also didn't hurt that John Nakahata, a highly respected former chief of staff at the commission, was recently able to win approval for a deal he brokered that will reduce the per-minute access charges that long-distance companies pay to local carriers for connecting calls.

I was recently lucky to win the HONOLULU FILM AWARDS 2012 SILVER LEI AWARD for my Ms. Vampy's Tween Tawk, Teen Tawk & In Between Tawk TV Pilot/Talk show/Web series.

The pilots association, contending management has been incompetent, recently won a court order freezing the assets of Mr. Silva and other top executives, and today another injunction was issued saying that their signatures on Varig documents could be declared invalid.

Conceived by the New York collaborative design studio Atelier DNA, Windstalk, as the project is called, recently won second place in a novel international competition in the United Arab Emirates.

It's not only true with Docracy, but Group.me (which was recently acquired by Skype) won the TechCrunch Hackathon as well and has since gone on to fall under the almighty Microsoft umbrella.

I also dream about what I want to see happen in the future," says the 18 year-old, whose painting prowess was recently recognised when he won a national schools art competition.