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American and victory
It follows that victory over Communism is the dominant, proximate goal of American policy.
His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.
The Dallas Texans were back home Monday with their third victory in four American Football League starts -- a 19-12 triumph over the Denver Broncos -- but their visit will be a short one.
The ensuing Union victory was among the bloodiest in American history, but it enabled Lincoln to announce that he would issue an Emancipation Proclamation in January.
* 1848 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
During its final two years of existence, the AFL teams won upset victories over the NFL teams in Super Bowl III and IV, the former New York Jets victory was considered one of the biggest upsets in American sports history.
" Unfortunately, the rest of the season did not go as well, and The Great American Race was his only victory that year.
In American football, the Scottish Claymores played WLAF / NFL Europe games at Murrayfield, including their World Bowl 96 victory.
The extent of Allied quantitative and qualitative superiority by this point in the war was demonstrated during Battle of the Philippine Sea, a lopsided Allied victory where Japanese fliers were downed in such numbers and with such ease that American fighter pilots likened it to a great turkey shoot.
* 1862 – American Civil War: The U. S. Navy gives the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
After victory had been finalized in 1783, Washington resigned rather than seize power, proving his opposition to dictatorship and his commitment to American republicanism.
The Continental Army having been funded by $ 20, 000 in French gold, Washington delivered the final blow to the British in 1781, after a French naval victory allowed American and French forces to trap a British army in Virginia.
The fact that only half of the American population believe that global warming is caused by human activity could be seen as a victory for these so-called skeptics.
By retraining the soldiers in new storm-trooper tactics, the Germans expected to unfreeze the Battlefield and win a decisive victory before the American army arrived in strength.
They interpreted the American victory in 1898 as well as the Japanese victory against Russia in 1905 as proof of the superior value of willpower and moral values over technology.
* 1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
* 1862 – American Civil War, Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines ( or the Battle of Fair Oaks ) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
* 1779 – Battle of Grenada: French victory over British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
* 1862 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic ; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
When Mexico rejected American annexation of Texas, Polk led the nation to a sweeping victory in the Mexican-American War, which gave the United States most of its present Southwest.
* 1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.

American and denied
There, to the Evening Post, she emphatically denied the divorce rumors and explained that she had stayed behind because of the schooling of their son, which henceforth would be strictly American.
Is public education in this American democracy of such importance that no child should be denied public education??
* 1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
Fought just prior to the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, the American victory denied the British any leverage to demand exclusive control over the Great Lakes or territorial gains against the New England states.
Terry Jones, the American pastor who was going to burn Islam's Holy Book, denied his responsibility for incitement.
For example, in 1957 American pianist Liberace, who publicly denied being gay or bisexual, successfully sued the Daily Mirror for merely insinuating that he was gay.
For decades, African American farmers said they were unjustly being denied farm loans or subjected to longer waits for loan approval because of racism, and accused the U. S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) of not responding to their complaints.
Peckinpah and several relatives often claimed Native American ancestry, but this has been denied by surviving family members.
* April 9 – African-American singer Marian Anderson performs before 75, 000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., after having been denied the use both of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of a public high school by the federally controlled District of Columbia.
Kazan was already " denied accolades " from the American Film Institute, and other film critics associations.
Rabin also denied the right of American Jews to object to his plan for peace, calling any dissent " chutzpah ".
In June 1998, Nicole Rothschild was reported to have told an American television show that Moore was " waiting to die " due to a serious illness, but these reports were denied by Suzy Kendall.
In 1995, retired Vietnamese Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, meeting with former Secretary of Defense McNamara, denied that Vietnamese gunboats had attacked American destroyers on August 4, while admitting to the attack on August 2.
She was still denied rooms in certain American hotels and was not allowed to eat in certain American restaurants.
However, the North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam ( NLF ) were able to dictate the pace of attrition to fit their own goals: by continuing to fight a guerrilla war and avoiding large-unit battles, they denied the Americans the chance to fight the kind of war they were best at, and they ensured that attrition would wear down the American public's support for the war faster than them.
In June 2011, the American Bar Association denied the University of La Verne full ABA accreditation.
Alice Piper, a 15-year-old Native American living in Big Pine in 1924, wanted to attend Big Pine school, but was denied on her ethnicity.
After the game, Oh denied ordering his pitchers to walk Bass, but Keith Comstock, an American pitcher for the Giants, later stated that an unnamed Giants coach had threatened a fine of $ 1, 000 for every strike that any Giants pitcher threw to Bass.
The film reflects real life in that Lansky was denied the Right of Return to Israel and returned to the U. S. to face criminal charges, but fabricated details regarding Roth's attempts to bribe Latin American dictators for entry to their countries, as well as Roth's ultimate fate.
The soldiers at the northwestern frontier outposts denied persons other than citizens of United States of America commercial use of the rivers, kept American Indian lands free of white settlement until treaties permitted it, enforced law and order, and protected legitimate travelers and traders.
But by the time of the release of the second single " God Thank You Woman ", news of George's drug addiction began to circulate in British and American tabloids, which were denied by the singer, and the second single stalled on the charts.
This was reported in the American press, and in William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary but was officially denied.
A common speculation is that Roark was inspired by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, a claim both Rand and Wright denied.
The American Library Association ( ALA ), addresses this role of libraries as part of " access to information " and " equity of access "; part of the profession's ethical commitment that " no one should be denied information because he or she cannot afford the cost of a book or periodical, have access to the internet or information in any of its various formats.

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