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victory and product
Having composed the Proclamation some time earlier, Lincoln had waited for a military victory to publish it to avoid it being perceived as the product of desperation.
Sony discontinued the ED-Beta product line in the U. S. market after less than two years, handing S-VHS a victory by default, if it can even be called that.
This victory for Commodus is accompanied by a terrible private discovery -- he is not of royal blood, being the product of illicit sex between his promiscuous mother Faustina Minor and a gladiator.
After the victory, the recipe of this bread product was spread throughout the province and named Guangbing after General Qi.
He described Tiger Woods's 2002 victory at Augusta as suspenseful as flossing, riding Lance Armstrong's team car about as boring as flossing sharks, would rather floss crocodiles than go skydiving, and stated John Elway's perfect endorsement product would be Johnson & Johnson dental floss.
Mello Yello was featured in the 1990 NASCAR-based movie Days Of Thunder, in which Tom Cruise's character, Cole Trickle, drove a Mello Yello-sponsored car to victory in the Daytona 500, although the product name itself is never verbally mentioned in the movie.
Conservatives within RTÉ associated with the Knights of Columbanus clashed with liberals and with Marxists associated with Official Sinn Féin, over the content of programmes, through the extent to which the ultimate liberal victory was a product of one side infiltrating the station more successfully than the other is disputed, with one academic saying that the liberal win only represented the triumph of the ' liberal consensus '.
A product of the Marseille youth system, he made his debut in Marseille's victory over Toulouse on 20 December 2003.

victory and Lee's
He was replaced by George Meade, who followed Lee into Pennsylvania for the Gettysburg Campaign, which was a victory for the Union, though Lee's army avoided capture.
* 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
Chancellorsville is known as Lee's " perfect battle " because his risky decision to divide his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force resulted in a significant Confederate victory.
Despite Lee's brilliant victory at Chancellorsville, Longstreet once again came under criticism, claiming that he could have marched his men back from Suffolk in time to join Lee.
As for Mahone, the victory, won largely due to his efforts in supporting Johnson's stunned men, earned him a lasting reputation as one of the best young generals of Lee's army in the war's last year.
Some in Taiwan believed that Lee's action was a deliberate attempt to sabotage the Kuomintang to ensure victory for Chen, who represented the DPP.
He asserted that the battle would have been a decisive Union victory if he had managed to stay on the field, but General McClellan's caution once again failed the Northern troops and Lee's much smaller army eluded destruction.
General Robert E. Lee asked him to return to Tredegar Ironworks to manage the manufacturing on which Lee's victory would depend.
Neither army gained a victory at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, but Lee's retreat back to Virginia gave the Union a strategic victory in the campaign.
Troops in Lee's department under Maj. Gen. Nathan B. Forrest scored a victory at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads on June 10, and seriously threatened Union supply lines supporting Sherman in Georgia.
The story deals with a group of time-travelling Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members who supply Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia with AK-47s and small amounts of other supplies ( including nitroglycerine tablets for treating Lee's heart condition ), leading to a Southern victory in the war.
Overall, the battle was a Union tactical victory, in which the Confederates suffered heavy casualties and achieved none of their specific objectives due to the seriously flawed execution of Lee's plan.
The battle was technically a Confederate victory because Averell's men failed to achieve their objective of destroying Lee's smaller force and they withdrew under pressure across the ford at dusk.
The victory at Second Winchester cleared the Valley of Federal troops and opened the door for Lee's second invasion of the North.
One of the most colorful series of committee hearings followed the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, where Union Maj. Gen. Daniel Sickles, a former congressman, accused Maj. Gen. George G. Meade of mismanaging the battle, planning to retreat from Gettysburg prior to his victory there, and failing to pursue and defeat Robert E. Lee's army as it retreated.
After the surrender of Lee's army later that month, the brigade participated in the victory parade in Washington.
After his victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville, Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia moved north for offensive operations in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Nevertheless, the news of the victory at Second Bull Run and the start of Lee's invasion caused considerable diplomatic activity between the Confederate States and France and England.
With those goals, Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, consisting of about 40, 000 men, had entered Maryland following their recent victory at Second Bull Run.
It was a Confederate victory, but as it occurred more than a month after Robert E. Lee's surrender it had no effect on the outcome of the war.

victory and timid
After Munich, Goerdeler told Young that: It is vitally important to realise that Hitler is deeply and definitely convinced that after his unexpected victory at Munich, anything is possible to him ... He says that he is now convinced that England is degenerate, weak, timid and never will have the guts to resist any of his plans.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood ; who strives valiantly ; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming ; but who does actually strive to do the deeds ; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions ; who spends himself in a worthy cause ; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat .</ b >

victory and decision
Tacitus derided Domitian's victory against the Chatti as a " mock triumph ", and criticised his decision to retreat from Britain following the conquests of Agricola.
Banks said the decision to sell was difficult – the 4 – 2 cup final victory over West Germany at Wembley was the greatest day of his career.
Before the Battle of Agincourt, victory looks uncertain, and the young king's heroic character emerges in his decision to wander around the English camp at night, in disguise, so as to comfort his soldiers and determine what they really think of him.
Its crowning achievement was its legal victory in the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ) that rejected separate white and colored school systems and by implication overturned the " separate but equal " doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson.
He fought Rahman on December 13, 2003, and with a unanimous decision victory became the WBA's interim champion.
The highly anticipated bout ended with a victory by unanimous decision for Chávez.
The resulting decision in Capitol Records, Inc. v. MP3Tunes, LLC was viewed as a victory for online storage and cloud music services.
Mayweather controlled the later rounds and was ultimately rewarded with a split decision victory in front of a sold-out arena at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
The 15-round fight ended in a decision victory for Lugan.
He won a few fights after his loss to Lora, including a decision victory over Edel Geronimo in March 1987.
In a bout held at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California on November 3, 1987, against Mexico's Juan Estrada, Dávila suffered an accidental headbutt and was given the victory through a technical decision.
After twelve rounds, Mosley emerged with a split decision victory.
He is best known for his 12-round victory over Muhammad Ali where he famously broke Ali's jaw, on March 31, 1973, becoming only the second man to defeat Ali as a professional ( after Joe Frazier, who won a 15-round unanimous decision against Ali on March 8, 1971 ).
After the war, the influential military writer Basil Liddell-Hart argued that this decision cost the Germans their only chance of victory in the east in 1941.
1 heavyweight contender, and defended against Bobo Olson, the World Middleweight Champion and future Hall of Famer who was coming off a decision victory over Joey Maxim, by a knockout in three.
This ( fourth ) fight took place in the outdoor Mission Street Arena in Colma, California, during a terrible thunderstorm, yet neither fighter relented in his pursuit of victory until Stanley took the twenty-round decision.
The event scored over 1 million pay per view buys as Evans secured a unanimous decision victory.
He followed that up with a unanimous decision victory over future heavyweight champion Oliver McCall, and earned a shot at the undisputed heavyweight championship held by Mike Tyson, who became the universally recognized champion after knocking out Spinks in one round in 1988.
In his next match, he won the first decision of his career scoring a points victory over Herminio Adorno.
Barrera was awarded the victory via a unanimous decision, with the scorecards reading 115-112, 115-112, 116-111 and won the Lineal and IBO Featherweight titles.
" Also, in Beauharnais v. Illinois, a 1952 U. S. Supreme Court decision involving a charge proscribing group libel, Justice Hugo Black alluded to the Pyrrhic War in his dissent: " If minority groups hail this holding as their victory, they might consider the possible relevancy of this ancient remark: ' Another such victory and I am undone.
The judges decided the fight's outcome by a split decision victory for Cotto, awarding scores of 115 – 112 and 116 – 111 for Cotto and 114 – 113 for Clottey.

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