Sentence examples for won the field from inspiring English sources

By about 1960 this revolution in Persian poetics had won the field, and the new style had become firmly established.

He was relieved to learn that Lee had won the field at Chancellorsville, though at an almost incomprehensible cost of 13,000 casualties, against the Union's 17,000.

"The hard-liners have won the field, and now we are seeing exactly how they want to run the place," said Russell Leigh Moses, a Beijing analyst of China's leadership.

Mr. Piano, 76, is among the world's handful of elite "starchitects," and he won the field's highest honor, the Pritzker Prize, in 1998.

(1846, p. 198) Mill's argument has won the field, and is echoed by contemporary authors such as Lewis: "We sometimes single out one among all the cause of some event and call it 'the' cause, as if there were no others.

"They won the field-position battle, put us back on the 18, the 17, the 20, whatever it may be.

The Cowboys won the field-position battle in November, giving the Eagles the ball inside the Philadelphia 20 five times while turning two Donovan McNabb interceptions into short scoring drives.

In 10 years an extraordinary wealth of gold was won, the fields at Ballarat and Bendigo being the most important.

Maryam Mirzakhani, who won the Fields Medal, the highest accolade in mathematics, in 2014, is another example.

Alain Connes, (born April 1 , 1947 Draguignan, France), French mathematician who won the Fields Medal in 1982 for his work in operator theory.

He took a class in media relations a few years before he won the Fields, and now his engagements keep him busy.