Sentence examples for won a handsome from inspiring English sources

Here, after all, is a president who only just over a year ago won a handsome mandate: 53% of the popular vote and big majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

The AK Party won a handsome victory last year pledging to liberalize the 1982 Constitution.

A man who lives in Fifty-fourth Street, just off Fifth Avenue, won a handsome R.C.A. Victor phonograph-radio-television catchall in a raffle, had it set up….

After the miners at Marikana won a handsome pay rise, 75,000 miners, chiefly of gold and platinum, went on strike, mostly illegally.

Raja Pervez Ashraf, a former cabinet minister with a controversial reputation, won a handsome majority of votes with the support of Mr. Zardari's Pakistan Peoples Party, which leads the coalition government.

A man who lives in Fifty-fourth Street, just off Fifth Avenue, won a handsome R.C.A. Victor phonograph-radio-television catchall in a raffle, had it set up in his home, and found the reception awful.

A year later, the GOP went on to win a handsome victory in the 2014 midterms.

He said: "If it is the case that the exit poll is right, then David Cameron has won a very handsome victory in this election.

In 1997 Mr Khatami won a very handsome democratic mandate for reform, but by winning the presidency he did not win a free hand to govern.Iran, remember, is at best a quasi-democracy: in parallel with the elected system exists another system that is unelected.

Then last Sunday the Social Democrats won an unexpectedly handsome victory in state elections in Bremen.

Indeed, he has just notched up his first big victory in his battle to get the whole of his "Agenda 2010" reforms on to the statute books by early next year.At a special party conference in Berlin on June 1st, Mr Schröder won an unexpectedly handsome vote of confidence, without having seriously to water down his plans.