The Liberals won a large majority in the 1880 election.

Taverne won by an unexpectedly large margin.

Chile won its formal independence when San Martín defeated the last large Spanish force on Chilean soil at the Battle of Maipú on April 5, 1818.

While Bannister was well known in the artistic community of his adopted home of Providence, Rhode Island and admired within the wider East Coast art world ( he won a bronze medal for his large oil " Under the Oaks " at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial ), he was largely forgotten for almost a century for a complexity of reasons, principally connected with racial prejudice.

He discovered that one wheel favored nine numbers and won large sums of money until the casino started rebalancing the roulette wheels daily.

With a large expedition that eventually included 40 000 European troops, and receiving help from white colonists and mulatto forces commanded by Alexandre Pétion, a former lieutenant of Rigaud, the French won several victories after severe fighting.

Several other, mostly Islamic parties won shares large enough to be seated in the DPR.

Taylor won the election by a large majority, primarily because Liberians feared a return to war had Taylor lost.

The SDP won the support of large sections of the media, and for most of 1981 and early 1982 its opinion poll ratings suggested that it could at least overtake Labour and possibly win a general election, as the Tories were proving unpopular because of the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher, which had seen unemployment reach a postwar high.

The large gold medallion from the Academy won in 1767 included a travel stipend, which he waited five years to receive.

Between 410 and 406, Athens won a continuous string of victories, and eventually recovered large portions of its empire.

With the help of a handful of local French administrators and officers, the British, and the Belgian government in exile Charles de Gaulle's Free French won over large parts of the French Empire.

Labour won the 1923 election, but in 1924 Baldwin and the Conservatives returned with a large majority.

The Democrats won the election by a large margin: Pierce won 27 of the 31 states including Scott's home state of Virginia.

In a referendum on March 16, 2003, Prince Hans-Adam, who had threatened to leave the country if he lost, won a large majority ( 64. 3 %) in favour of overhauling the constitution to effectively give him more powers than any other European monarch.

Wilson defeated Taft, Roosevelt, and Debs in the general election, winning a large majority in the Electoral College and 42 % of the popular vote, while his nearest rival, Roosevelt, won only 27 %.

In the December 1918 general election, a large majority of Irish seats in the Westminster parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were won by Sinn Féin, with 73 of 105 constituencies returning Sinn Féin members.

The film's large cast and intertwining of many different storylines were similar to his large-cast films of the 1970s ; he won the Golden Lion at the 1993 Venice International Film Festival and another Oscar nomination for Best Director.

Goldwater won South Carolina by a large margin in 1964.

In 1942, Dewey ran for governor again, and won with a large plurality over Democrat John J. Bennett, Jr. Bennett was not endorsed by the American Labor Party, whose candidate drew almost 10 %.

Both nations have begun to realize the core truth of the post – Cold War era that, if the strategic reality, as described by the words of Ronald Reagan, is that " Nuclear war cannot be won and must not be fought ", then large nuclear weapons stockpiles have no positive use, are expensive, and can lead to dangerous destabilization.

" At the following year's ceremony, when he read the nominees for Best Actress ( won by Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry ), host Billy Crystal playfully appeared behind him with a large net to restrain Benigni if he got excessive with his antics again.

The elder Simon had also acquired the Countship of Toulouse during the Albigensian Crusade, together with large amounts of Angevin territory won by force of arms, but was killed while his children were still young.

Although England decisively won the Ashes 4 – 1, Bodyline caused such a furore in Australia that diplomats had to intervene to prevent serious harm to Anglo-Australian relations, and the MCC eventually changed the Laws of cricket to curtail the number of leg side fielders.

The direction that each face down card is pointed indicates which side won each trick, so that at the end of the hand, the number of tricks taken by each side can be determined.

The Ottomans were superior in number, but on October 10, 1394 ( or 17 May 1395 ), in the Battle of Rovine, on forested and swampy terrain, the Wallachians won the fierce battle and prevented Bayezid from conquering the country.

The specific object varies with each game and can include taking as many tricks as possible, taking as many scoring cards ( or as few penalty cards ) within the tricks won as possible, taking as few tricks as possible, or taking an exact number of tricks.

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.

The FSTA filed an amicus curiae in support of CBC, also arguing that if MLBAM won the lawsuit it would have a dramatic impact on the industry, which was largely ignored by the major sports leagues for years while a number of smaller entrepreneurs grew it into a multi-billion dollar industry, and a ruling could allow the MLBAM to have a monopoly over the industry.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

Timelines showing the number of seats and percentage of party list votes won are on the right.

At 2009 European Parliament election held on the same day as the Local elections, which saw a reduction in the number seats from 13 to 12 for Ireland, the party won four seats, retaining the largest number of seats of an Irish party in the European Parliament.

* Holman Moody: GT40 Mark IIs won third at Le Mans in 1966, still manufacture a small number of GT40s from 1966 blueprints

His record in dealing with those crises is mixed, as he won a number of military victories but was unable to keep much of his realm from seceding.

The result of this was that the PAS won a number of Malay seats from UMNO, but many Chinese voters disapproved of this unnatural alliance with the Islamist PAS, causing the DAP to lose many of its seats to the MCA, including that of its veteran leader, Lim Kit Siang.

Hannibal still won a number of notable victories: completely destroying two Roman armies in 212 BC, and at one point, killing two consuls ( including the famed Marcus Claudius Marcellus ) in a battle in 208 BC.

The Ball State Cardinals have won several conference championships and earned a number of NCAA Tournament berths over the years, including:

In the 2004 elections, the INC won the largest number of Lok Sabha seats and formed a government with a coalition called the United Progressive Alliance ( UPA ), supported by various parties.

Mary White won a seat for the first time in Carlow-Kilkenny however, Dan Boyle lost his seat in Cork South – Central leaving the party with the same number of TDs as before.

Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a current world number one player, and has defeated nine current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Anatoli Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

The team was quickly built through a number of trades engineered by its first General Manager, Cedric Tallis, including a trade for Lou Piniella, who won the Rookie of the Year during the Royals ' inaugural season.

Finland holds the record for the largest number of people singing karaoke at one time, for over 80, 000 people singing " Hard Rock Hallelujah " on 26 May 2006 in Helsinki after Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest 2006.

He won a number of Emmys, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Golden Globes for his work on Frasier.

During his bouncing days, Tureaud was in over 200 fights and was sued a number of times, but won each case.

They were the creation of millionaire Percy Nilsson and quickly rose to the highest rank in the early to mid-1990s and won two Swedish championships, but for a number of years have found themselves residing outside of the top flight.

She then climbed to world number 6 and won three singles titles.

In the first round, the candidate who wins the majority of votes ( 50 % of the total number of votes cast ) will be elected, providing that the number of votes won is not less than 1 / 3 of the total number of registered voters in the constituency.