According to scholar Ervand Abrahamian, although there were several decades of prohibition of torture that spread from Europe to most parts of the world, by the 1980s, the taboo against torture was broken and torture " returned with a vengeance ," propelled in part by television and an opportunity to break political prisoners and broadcast the resulting public recantations of their political beliefs for " ideological warfare, political mobilization, and the need to win ' hearts and minds.

It was a sensational win for Sugar Shane and propelled him back to the top of the tree in the welterweight division.

This is often said to give undue influence to these states, a win in these early states is said to give a candidate the " Big Mo " ( momentum ) and has propelled many candidates to win the nomination.

New York had a four-run lead going into the bottom of the ninth inning, but a five-run rally with two outs propelled the Sounds to a 5 – 4 win in front of 13, 641 fans.

Garciaparra's walk off home run against Arizona propelled the Dodgers to win their last seven games of the regular season, helping the Dodgers to make the playoffs.

The win over Martin propelled Anani into the top rung of women's boxing stars, and she won her next four fights before suffering an upset at the hands of Britt Van Buskirk on September 17, 2000.

In Game 2, a 3-pointer by Sean Elliott in the closing seconds gave the Spurs a 86 – 85 win and propelled San Antonio to win the series ( the Spurs went on to win the NBA championship ).

Franklin's win over an icon like Shamrock propelled him into UFC stardom and established him as one of the organization's biggest stars.

That win propelled Ireland to a best ever height of 3rd in the IRB World Rankings.

This was followed one year later by supplying the rocket motors that propelled SpaceShipOne into the history books by creating the world's first civilian astronauts and helping Paul Allen win the $ 10 million Ansari X Prize.

John duplicated that accomplishment in 1968 propelled by a famous win over the dominant McLaren team in a very wet race at Laguna Seca.

Beuerlein started the remaining eight games of the regular season, splitting playing time with Kiel, and winning his first five starts ( including 30-6 win at # 7 South Carolina, a 42-0 blowout win at Army, and a 27-6 victory over arch-rival USC-the first since 1977-which propelled the Irish back into the rankings ).

The win propelled him to his career-high singles ranking of World No. 2.

The win propelled him to his career-high singles ranking of World No. 6 in July 2002.

On June 1, Utley hit his Major League-leading 20th home run and drove in his National League-leading 50th run as part of a comeback win against the Florida Marlins that propelled the Phillies back into first place in the National League East ; the 1-for-2 performance capped a productive week for Utley that earned him the National League Player of the Week Award, his fifth, for the first time since April 23 – 29,.

Franklin's win over a mixed martial arts icon like Shamrock propelled him into UFC stardom and established him as one of the organization's biggest stars.

In the other match, a massive opening partnership of 257 between centurions Rene Schoonheim ( 117 ) and RE Lifmann ( 155 not out, the tournament's highest score ) propelled the Netherlands to 301 / 3 and gave Malaysia no chance of victory, and the Asians were dismissed for 176 to give the Dutch a 125-run win.

However, the ' 08 Gaels responded with an eight game winning streak, including an instant classic, 35-29 win over Morristown, which propelled the team to the final IHC-Iron crown to be contested.

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Upon his ejection, Mr. Sianis uttered, " The Cubs, they ain't gonna win no more.

With his shots in the 9th and 10th innings Wrigley Field erupted and Sandberg set the stage for a comeback win that cemented the Cubs as the team to beat in the East.

With wins of 13 – 0 and 4 – 2, the Cubs needed to win only one game of the next three in San Diego to make to the World Series.

This has added excitement to several pennant races over the years, most recently in, and ; the first two times the division title was won by the Cubs, the third by the Cardinals, who went on to win the National League pennant as the Cubs faltered in the second half of the 2004 season.

* Brad Penny ( 2000 – 2004 ) — In 2003, Penny collected the win in Florida's NLCS clinching victory over the Chicago Cubs and in the World Series against the New York Yankees he went 2 – 0 with a 2. 19 ERA in his two starts.

Greenberg hit the only two homers by the Tigers — one in Game Two, where he batted in three runs in a 4 – 1 win ; the other — a two-run job — tied the game in the eighth inning of Game Six, making the score 8 – 8, but the Cubs won that game with a run in the bottom of the 12th.

ESPN's Peter Gammons and Dan Patrick both picked The Brewers to beat out the defending champion Cardinals and re-vamped Chicago Cubs to win the NL Central.

He accomplished this historic baseball-event on July 25, 1956 in a 9-8 Pittsburgh win against the Chicago Cubs, at Forbes Field.

They lost the rematch to the Cubs, who would go on to win their second World Series.

The Cubs would win the first two games at Wrigley Field, and were less than two innings away from a series sweep when their luck changed.

* September 11 – The Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs for the 1918 World Series championship, their last World Series win until 2004.

* October 3 – October 10 – The Detroit Tigers win the World Series against the Chicago Cubs-the Cubs have not returned to the World Series since.

Although Wrigley Field has been the home of the Cubs since 1916, it has yet to see the Cubs win a World Series, even though it has hosted several ( 1929, 1932, 1935, 1938, and 1945, the last time the Cubs appeared in a World Series ), the last World Series win by the Cubs ( 1908 ) happened while the Cubs called West Side Park home.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

It is the high ratio of short-term standard deviation to expected loss that fools gamblers into thinking that they can win.

Following the win, Colorado hosted Los Angeles with a chance to pull into a tie for the division lead if they could sweep.

On 22 November 2008 Charlton suffered a 2 – 5 loss to Sheffield United at home, which meant that the club had gone eight successive games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone — particularly disastrous considering they were among the pre-season favourites for promotion.

Powell's bright start continued with a further three victories, before running into a dreadful downturn which saw the club go 11 games in succession without a win.

A class action in such a situation centralizes all claims into one venue where a court can equitably divide the assets amongst all the plaintiffs if they win the case.

In addition, later revisions to the qualification criteria add several requirements that have not been made into formalized ' rules ': innocent bystanders cannot be in danger, and the qualifying event must be caused without deliberate intent ( to prevent glory-seekers from purposely injuring themselves solely to win a Darwin ).

Apollo chased her, and in order to win her favours turned himself into a tortoise, of which the girls made a pet.

In Game 7, Craig Counsell's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth tied the game at 2, then, with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the 11th, Edgar Rentería's soft liner glanced off the glove of Cleveland pitcher Charles Nagy and into center field to score Counsell and give the Marlins the win.

By packing opposition voters into districts they will already win ( increasing excess votes for winners ) and by cracking the remainder among districts where they are moved into the minority ( increasing votes for eventual losers ), the number of wasted votes among the opposition can be maximized.

Hoover believed " food will win the war ", and beginning on September 29, this slogan was introduced and put into frequent use.

Game four went into extra innings, with the Phillies taking the lead and the win in the tenth inning.

Indianapolis began the season with a 3 – 4 record, but would go onto win nine consecutive games to end the season at 12 – 4 and make in into the playoffs as a wild card team, eventually losing to the Chargers during the wild card round.

This continued into 2010 when the Colts would only compile a 10 – 6 record, the first time the Colts did not win 12 games since 2002, and lose to the New York Jets in the wild card round of the playoffs.

Going into the last round Polgár needed only a draw to achieve the GM title, but she won her game against GM Tibor Tolnai to win first place with six points in nine games.

He next re-teamed with director Ashby in 1982's Lookin ' to Get Out, in which he played Alex Kovac, a con man who has run into debt with New York mobsters and hopes to win enough in Las Vegas to pay them off.

At the Battle of Crécy ( 1346 ), Edward III of England sent his son, Edward, the Black Prince, to lead the charge into battle and when pressed to send reinforcements, the king replied, " say to them that they suffer him this day to win his spurs.

Two teams occupy opposite halves of a small swimming pool / field and take turns sending a " raider " into the other half, in order to win points by tackling members of the opposing team ; then the raider tries to return to his own half, holding his breath and chanting the word " Kabaddi " during the whole raid.

In 1930, when Gallant Fox became the second horse to win all three races, sportswriter Charles Hatton brought the phrase into American usage.

He and his friend Danny Rand were recently drawn into the gang war between the Kingpin and Hammerhead after the latter targeted him to win over the Chinatown gangs to his cause.

They had to win and have the Packers lose in order to get into the playoffs.

Though the Phillies moved into a permanent home at Baker Bowl in 1887, they did not win their first pennant until nearly 30 years later, after the likes of standout players Billy Hamilton, Sam Thompson, and Ed Delahanty had departed.

The Phillies made the playoffs twice more in the 1980s after their Series win, in 1981 and 1983, where they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series, but they would soon follow these near-misses with a rapid drop back into the basement of the National League.