| His political adversaries tried to prevent him from winning the nomination. |
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| The Oscar winning actress has been torn to shreds by the media and public for her altered face. |
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| The comedian is famous for his monologue about winning the lottery. |
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| The team has gone two seasons without winning any silverware. |
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| She'll be playing in the tournament this year after winning the qualifier. |
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| The lawyer advised me to drop the case, since there was no chance of winning. |
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| It took all three apples and all of his speed, but Hippomenes was finally successful, winning the race and Atalanta's hand. |
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| Whoever picks the winning ticket will win a bundle of prizes. |
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| The SNP gained an overall majority in the election, winning 69 from 129 seats, thereby gaining a mandate to hold an independence referendum. |
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| This remains the record defeat for the team, and also England's largest winning margin. |
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| Ireland won their first championship in 1894, also winning the Triple Crown. |
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| Richard was bolstered by winning the Eisteddfod Prize and wanted to repeat his success. |
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| In all but five of the years since this rule has been in place, the winning country has hosted the show the following year. |
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| In 2015, Sweden won the contest with 365 points, becoming the first country to ever reach 300 points or more twice while winning both times. |
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| Russia placed second with 303 points, becoming the first country to score more than 300 points without winning. |
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| Leicester could only manage a goalless draw midweek with Sutton Coldfield and will be keen to return to winning form. |
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| Wilson called on antiwar elements to end all wars, by winning this one and eliminating militarism from the globe. |
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| The election resulted in a Conservative landslide victory, with the now leaderless Labour Party winning only 46 seats in Parliament. |
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| Flying in reinforcements and winning air superiority, the Luftwaffe contributed decisively to the German conquest. |
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| The Turner Prize winning artist Sir Anish Kapoor is one of the most acclaimed contemporary British sculptors. |
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| Jonny Wilkinson scored the winning drop goal for England in the last minute of extra time against Australia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final. |
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| She believed that it was winning over large numbers of Conservative voters with warnings against floods of immigrants. |
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| Wasted votes are votes cast for losing candidates or votes cast for winning candidates in excess of the number required for victory. |
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| In such a system, each party introduces a list of candidates and the party winning a plurality of votes wins all the seats. |
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| The party narrowly missed winning additional seats in Belfast North and Fermanagh and South Tyrone. |
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| Her husband, as it turned out, was an amazing mooer, and he mooed his way to winning! |
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| In July 2003, a public naming competition was held for the 7E7, for which out of 500,000 votes cast online the winning title was Dreamliner. |
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| The government is to invite tenders for the new franchise in October or November 2017, setting out what it wants from the winning bidder. |
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| Nova Scotia has also produced some significant songwriters such as Grammy Award winning Gordie Sampson. |
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| He has also adapted many of his stage works for radio, film and television winning extensive awards and honours from the start of his career. |
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| Gaiman's 2009 Newbery Medal winning book The Graveyard Book will be made into a movie, with Ron Howard as the director. |
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| His position was also helped by winning the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award. |
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| We don't want this to undermine her incredible achievement in winning our night's biggest award. |
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| Also in June, Kapoor's Orbit was announced as the winning proposal for an artwork for the 2012 Olympic Games. |
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| He displayed an excellent speaking and singing voice since childhood, even winning an eisteddfod prize as a boy soprano. |
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| Cleopatra was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning for Best Production Design, Best Costume Design and Best Visual Effects. |
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| Both were made with a view to winning support for the British war effort, especially in the United States. |
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| The films were critically acclaimed and heavily awarded, winning 17 out of 30 total Academy Award nominations. |
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| The Fellowship of the Ring earned thirteen nominations, the most of any film at the 74th Academy Awards, winning four. |
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| Wales were champions on 12 occasions, winning outright seven times whilst sharing the title five times. |
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| Great Britain were eliminated in the first round, losing one, drawing one and winning one of their three matches. |
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| England later got revenge by winning the return match at the Kennington Oval, London in the following year. |
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| Scotland went on to share the 1986 Five Nations championship with France, each side winning three out of their four games. |
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| This was a record defeat against the English, and a result which ended their hopes of winning the Six Nations. |
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| The captain winning the toss of a coin decides whether to bat or to bowl first. |
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| The team also competed in the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 after jointly winning the qualifiers, where they also made the Super 8 stage. |
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| Baker has been the most successful martial arts competitor in Irish history winning over 50 international titles. |
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| They performed better than expected, winning three of their nine games, and finishing eighth in the Northern conference. |
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| The tournament was disappointing for Scotland, going out in the group stage without winning a single match. |
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| Scotland have gone on to play Ireland the most times with 13 games, winning only four of these games. |
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| Ireland has played in 54 internationals since its debut in 1995 winning 23 and losing 28 with 3 draws. |
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| Inspired by this, Bruce returned to inflict a series of defeats on the English, thus winning him more supporters and eventual victory. |
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| Suffren arrived off the Indian coast in February 1782, where he clashed with a British fleet under Hughes, winning a narrow tactical victory. |
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| To his great surprise he was defeated in South Lancashire but winning in Greenwich was able to remain in Parliament. |
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| As 1941 began, Fighter Command began the onerous task of winning air superiority over North Western France from the Germans. |
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| The club joined the East League for the 1982 season, winning Grade D and promotion. |
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| Although the criterion is met for each constituency vote, it is not met when adding up the total votes for a winning party in a parliament. |
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| The SNP went on to win a landslide victory in Scotland, winning 56 out of 59 seats. |
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| The pipes and drums have distinguished themselves, most recently winning the award for Album of the Year at the 2009 Classical Brits. |
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| From 1930 to 1970, the Jules Rimet Trophy was awarded to the World Cup winning team. |
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| All World Cup winning head coaches were natives of the country they coached to victory. |
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| Since the creation of the Scottish League Cup in 1947, clubs can complete a domestic treble by also winning this tournament in the same season. |
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| Celtic established itself within Scottish football, winning six successive league titles during the first decade of the 20th century. |
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| Former player Willie Miller took over in 1992 and presided over two seasons where Aberdeen came close to winning the title. |
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| Milan and Barcelona have achieved this honour, winning the trophy a total of five times each. |
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| Countless professional golfers have seen their dreams of winning the Open Championship squandered by hitting their balls into those bunkers. |
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| However, winning a major boosts a player's career far more than winning any other tournament. |
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| In 1960, Arnold Palmer entered The Open Championship in an attempt to emulate Hogan's 1953 feat of winning on his first visit. |
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| The Senior Open Championship was held at Carnoustie for the first time in 2010, with Germany's Bernhard Langer winning. |
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| Modest congratulation, however, may be exchanged between winning team members after the match. |
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| It is also traditional in some areas for the winning team to buy the losing team a drink after the game. |
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| It is not uncommon for a team to concede a curling match after it believes it no longer has any hope of winning. |
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| To concede a match, members of the losing team offer congratulatory handshakes to the winning team. |
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| To continue playing when a team has no realistic chance of winning can be seen as a breach of etiquette. |
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| As most ordinary people sat on stools until the 1700s, an armchair conveyed status to a winning bard. |
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| Despite his success in winning the war, William had far less success in restoring royal power following the peace. |
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| Another notable player is Billy Cleaver from Treorchy, a member of the 1950 Grand Slam winning team. |
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| This attack, which became the opening salvo of their Spring Offensive, aimed to deliver a single, decisive, war winning blow. |
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| With biproportional apportionment, the use of open party lists hasn't changed, but the way winning candidates are determined has. |
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| In many ways, coalition warfare serves to make the crafting of a peace more difficult than the winning of the war itself. |
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| After winning a scholarship, Thomas studied Spanish at the University of Oxford. |
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| The winning works from the 2018 prize are due to be exhibited at the Oriel Kyffin Williams Gallery. |
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| They have suffered relegation from that league once, but bounced back in 2009, winning WRU Division Two West. |
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| After winning two Five Nations games in 1992, and one in 1993, Wales won the Championship in 1994 on points difference. |
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| In the next two tournaments in 1991 and 1995, Wales failed to progress beyond the pool stage, winning just one match in each tournament. |
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| However, despite this approach, Munster finished second and Leinster third, with Munster winning the Celtic Cup. |
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| In the grand final at the RDS in Dublin the Ospreys shocked Leinster, winning the title with their first win in Dublin in five years. |
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| During the 1960s, Cardiff began qualifying for European competition for the first time as a result of winning the Welsh Cup. |
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| The winning goals were scored by Juan Ugarte and Darren Ferguson as Wrexham ran out winners in front of over 20,000 Wrexham fans. |
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| Toshack and Keegan struck up a successful partnership with Toshack winning balls in the air and Keegan finishing the knock downs. |
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| As a result of Neftchi Baku winning both the Premier League and Cup, Khazar qualified for the UEFA Europa League. |
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| Rush's last touch of the ball in a Liverpool shirt was when it bounced off his shoulder to set Eric Cantona up for his winning goal. |
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| He marked the occasion by scoring the winning goal in the 90th minute, scoring from a cross by Ashley Young. |
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| In his one year with the England Schoolboys team, Giggs played nine times, all as captain, winning seven matches and losing twice. |
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| On 16 April, Bale scored the winning goal for Real Madrid with five minutes remaining in the 2014 Copa del Rey Final against rivals Barcelona. |
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| The position of each team at the end of the season is decided on winning percentage. |
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| After winning the title, Reardon was in big demand for exhibitions and on the holiday camp circuit. |
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| Williams also lost from a winning position in the final of the next major ranking event, the Shanghai Masters. |
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| His winning time at the 1994 Commonwealth Games was a Commonwealth Games record. |
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| On 3 November 2007 Maccarinelli successfully defended his WBO cruiserweight title against Mohamed Azzaoui winning by TKO in the 4th Round. |
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| Rivers started as favourite, but his inexperience showed and Welsh dominated the entire fight winning on points. |
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| One month later he defended both titles against Billy Calvert in Porthcawl, winning on points over fifteen rounds. |
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| In December 1963 he again defended his titles against John O'Brien, again winning on points. |
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| In March 1966 he defended his European title against Andrea Silanos in Italy winning by a technical knockout in the fifteenth round. |
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| In 1992 he was also inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame and one of his prize winning belts is part of the organisation's display. |
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| It was also nominated for 7 Saturn Awards, winning the only Best International Series in the ceremony's history. |
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| He graduated in 1989, winning both the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Award and the Gold Medal. |
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| The model Twiggy saw her winning the British ITV television talent show, Opportunity Knocks and recommended her to Paul McCartney. |
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| After winning singing competitions in her youth, Jenkins studied at the Royal Academy of Music, modelled and taught voice. |
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| The Knights had been on the bubble for the tournament, but played their way in by winning their last five games. |
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| Capelli and the 8V Zagato topped this accomplishment by winning the GT category of the Pescara 12 Hours in August, ahead of two Lancias. |
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| Rotterdam is home to the most successful European baseball team, Neptunus Rotterdam, winning the most European Cups. |
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| The 2017 Olivier award winning play, Rotterdam, written by Jon Brittain, is set in the city. |
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| He served with distinction, winning the Civic Crown for his part in the Siege of Mytilene. |
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| Some historians argue the change in strategy lost the Luftwaffe the opportunity of winning the air battle, or air superiority. |
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| However, RAF intelligence at the time claimed that the Allies had shot down 96 German aircraft, thus winning a major victory. |
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| Nicole Linkletter and CariDee English were winning contestants of Cycles 5 and 7, respectively, of America's Next Top Model. |
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| During the race, Chris made a significant progress due to his agile Maserati, eventually winning the race. |
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| Japan has one of the most successful football teams in Asia, winning the Asian Cup four times. |
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| Red foxes may leave their families once they reach adulthood if the chances of winning a territory of their own are high. |
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| This year's team is a powerhouse that's winning its games easily. |
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| He visited the pagan King Bridei, King of Fortriu, at his base in Inverness, winning Bridei's respect, although not his conversion. |
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| He then played four seasons with Real Madrid, winning the La Liga championship in his final season with the club. |
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| In 1971 the British Prime Minister, Edward Heath, captained one of the winning boats. |
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| In 2001 they were promoted to the Premier Division after winning the Southern League east division but were relegated straight back again. |
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| In the 1973 County Championship Hampshire won the County Championship for a second time, winning the competition by 31 points from Surrey. |
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| Gould returned to State of Origin coaching New South Wales from 2002 to 2004, winning two series and drawing the third. |
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| He has received four Brit Awards, winning the award for Best British Male twice, and the 2006 Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. |
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| Central Independent Television along with Selectv were instrumental in winning the franchise as a low bidder. |
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| He gained popularity in France by restoring the Church, keeping taxes low, centralizing power in Paris, and winning glory on the battlefield. |
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| In 1990, the first free elections were held for Parliament, with the opposition Popular Front winning them. |
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| By winning the support of the people, Caesar sought to make himself unassailable from the boni. |
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| The army marched to the Baltic before turning around and marching to the Rhine, winning much booty with no harassment. |
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| After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has continuously been one of the most successful teams, winning many world championships. |
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| Approvers sometimes were given their freedom after winning five trials but sometimes were hanged anyway. |
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| In 2006, Lateefa Al Gaood became the first female MP after winning by default. |
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| Following this victory, Atahualpa strengthened his army and continued south into his brother's land, winning every encounter. |
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| The laurels of authorship are worth the winning largely because there is no primrose path leading to them. |
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| A detailed analysis puts in doubt the likelihood of Mexico winning were any case to be brought by Mexico at the International Court of Justice. |
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| The most successful team is the Hobart Tigers winning the title three times. |
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| The method of judging varies with the discipline, but winning usually depends on style and ability of both horse and rider. |
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| Remembering the exchange now, Dickie smiled that winning southern-boy smile. Then he went glum again. He thumped the purfled sound board. |
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| The national team finished seventh of eight teams after winning only 1 game despite playing close all the way. |
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| In June 2014, Vanderbilt won its first men's national championship by winning the 2014 College World Series. |
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| The winning entry was a song written by Professor Solomon Mutswairo and composed by Fred Changundega. |
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| No third party has come close to winning a parliamentary majority, although Johnston et al. |
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| Wasted votes are seen as those cast for losing candidates, and for winning candidates in excess of the number required for victory. |
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| In the 1950s the side played in three Challenge Cup finals, winning the last of these against Workington Town. |
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| Climbing stages, along with individual time trials, are key stages in winning long stage races. |
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| In 1972, the winning writer John Berger, known for his Marxist worldview, protested during his acceptance speech against Booker McConnell. |
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| They played, and Creed and his young partner won the first rubber, winning the two first games running. |
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| With his trademark red hair and award winning songs, Sheeran has invaded the lives of Sheerios across America. |
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| When Liverpool scored a third goal, their hopes of winning slipped away forever. |
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| There are no winning hands, just a grim deck full of aces of spades. |
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| Southampton had been hoping to get back to winning ways to prove to their critics there was substance to their sterling start to the season. |
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| England still have a chance of winning tomorrow if they can get India out before stumps today. |
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| They're either telling you where to shove it, if you're winning, or telling you where they'd like to shove it given half the chance. |
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| After winning in the lower court, the appellee hoped she would win again in the appeals court. |
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| The winning entry was a poem written in Asturian, one of the first such in Asturian literature. |
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| Every blitheless thing's forgot Winter's sighs and frowns are not. From the old the new is winning, All's in the beginning. |
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| He achieved a clean sweep winning four professional majors in a span of 294 days. |
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| She gave each participant a trophy, regardless of win or loss, to commonize the award for winning. |
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| Into the court you'd swanned, you dateless little pillock, if not wholly confident of winning, surely careless of losing. |
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| In 1996, Michael Johnson achieved a double by winning both the 200 and 400 meter dashes. |
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| He initiated the game winning play with a fancy, deked saucer pass to the winger. |
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| In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war. |
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| However they have hosted the ICC World Twenty20 in 2009, winning this format in 2010 beating rivals Australia in the final. |
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| Unlike in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan, in Yemen they are trying to implement sharia by winning over the hearts and minds of the people. |
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| Labour remained the largest Assembly party following the 2007 election, winning 26 of the 60 seats. |
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| Welsh Labour remained the largest party in the Assembly following the National Assembly for Wales election, 2011, winning 30 of the 60 seats. |
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| Cutler pushed forward the two necessary white chips. No one's hand was high, and Loomis made a slight winning. |
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| They both became permanent fixtures in Alf Ramsey's 1966 England World Cup winning team. |
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| In August 2012, McIlroy won his 2nd major championship by winning the USPGA Championship by a record margin of 8 shots. |
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| He spoke in earnest of the importance of achieving academic excellence as well as winning football games. |
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| In 1510, France, with a fragile alliance with the Holy Roman Empire in the League of Cambrai, was winning a war against Venice. |
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| Indeed, the majority of the winning entries were for poetry competitions, a genre commonly stressed in women's education. |
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| Labour performed well in the Midlands and South of England, winning control of councils including Birmingham, Norwich, Plymouth and Southampton. |
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| In the 2016 election, it entered the Assembly for the first time, winning seven of 60 seats. |
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| The latter statement was key to winning support for the agreement from nationalists. |
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| Multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Nobel Prize winning physicist Peter Higgs, and WWE Superstar Neville were born in the city. |
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| Crime writer Jim Kelly and award winning poet Wendy Cope currently live in the city. |
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| Ayrton Senna drove for the team from 1985 to 1987, winning twice in each year and achieving 17 pole positions. |
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| The team started winning regularly from 1987, and won Le Mans in 1988 and 1990 with the XJR series sports cars. |
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| Bentley withdrew from motor racing just after winning at Le Mans in 1930, claiming that they had learned enough about speed and reliability. |
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| He finished his undergraduate course by winning the place of Senior Wrangler, and the first Smith's prize. |
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| He is depicted in the Academy Award winning 1936 film, The Story of Louis Pasteur, by Halliwell Hobbes. |
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| Stephenson's entry was Rocket, and its performance in winning the contest made it famous. |
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| Fox's new game show, The Chamber, lets people suffer to their hearts' content, with the hope of winning some long green, too. |
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| These were also included in the Academy Award winning film of the same name starring Anthony Hopkins as Col. |
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| David Sainsbury won the election taking 2,893 of the 5,888 votes cast, winning on the first count. |
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| The series was successful, performing extremely well commercially and winning numerous Oscars. |
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| Jade Ewen won the right to represent Britain, winning with It's My Time, by Lloyd Webber and Diane Warren. |
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| The Royal Ballet company is a multiple Laurence Olivier Award winning company. |
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| He also made an adaptation of The Moon and Sixpence in 1960, winning an Emmy Award. |
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| Although largely indifferent to awards, Gielgud had the rare distinction of winning an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. |
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| Following this, Sellers provided the growling voice of Winston Churchill to the BAFTA award winning film The Man Who Never Was. |
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| Home chronicles her early years in Britain's music hall circuit and ends in 1962 with her winning the role of Mary Poppins. |
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| The Crown Film Unit completed many classic wartime documentaries including Roy Boulting's Academy Award winning Desert Victory. |
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| Based on the bombing of 1998, the film was a critical success, winning British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama. |
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| He has also received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Sherlock. |
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| She was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2014, winning for British Artist of the Year. |
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| Watson was nominated for five awards for her performance in Philosopher's Stone, winning the Young Artist Award for Leading Young Actress. |
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| The winning team is the one that scores the most runs, including any extras gained, during their innings. |
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| New Zealand are the current champions, winning the 2016 title with two rounds to spare. |
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| Typically, a player wins a set by winning at least six games and at least two games more than the opponent. |
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| If a boxer simply quits fighting, or if his corner stops the fight, then the winning boxer is also awarded a technical knockout victory. |
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| Ray Reardon became the dominant force in the 1970s winning six titles, with John Spencer winning three. |
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| The 2016 season began in dominant fashion for Nico Rosberg, winning the first 4 Grands Prix. |
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| British drivers have achieved success in the World Rally Championship with the late Colin McRae and the late Richard Burns winning the title. |
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| Scotland finished their qualification section by winning three of their last four matches, including two victories against Croatia. |
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| The Africans felt that winning their zone was enough in itself to merit qualification for the finals. |
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| They also became the first World Cup winning team not to win its first game in the tournament. |
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| England's total of eleven goals scored in six games set a new record low for average goals per game scored by a World Cup winning team. |
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| England's total of three goals conceded also constituted a record low for average goals per game conceded by a World Cup winning team. |
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| They were the only team to beat the 1974 FIFA World Cup winning West Germans in the only meeting of the two sides of the divided nation. |
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| It took Germany 28 years to participate at the Olympics again in 2016, this time reaching the final and winning a silver medal. |
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| In 2003 Hurst was included in The Champions, a statue of 1966 World Cup winning footballers, by sculptor Philip Jackson. |
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| The Wanderers operated from 1876 to 1879, winning the cup in their final year. |
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| The club first played in the FA Trophy in 2007 after winning promotion to the NPL, but have so far failed to advance past the qualifying rounds. |
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| In 2004, a special gold version of the trophy was commissioned to commemorate Arsenal winning the title without a single defeat. |
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| This meant that Forest had played in six cup finals in four seasons, winning four of them. |
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| Villa were back among the elite as Saunders continued to mould a winning team. |
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| Graham made some astute purchases and also helped blood youngsters from Leeds' successful youth cup winning side. |
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| But England dominated, winning the next three series to 1896 despite continuing player disputes. |
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| The team continued its success on the 1921 Tour of England, winning three out of the five Tests in Warwick Armstrong's last series. |
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| The team was widely considered unstoppable, winning nine of its next ten Tests. |
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| Australia ended winning by 45 runs, an identical result to the first Test match. |
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| A replica differing only in the inscriptions is permanently awarded to the winning team. |
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| West Indies are the current World T20I holders, beating England in the 2016 final, winning their second title. |
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| Pyrros Dimas, winning a bronze medal, became the most decorated weightlifter of all time with 3 golds and 1 bronze in Olympic Games. |
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| Five events were contested, with the United States winning four total medals. |
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| During the Games, Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, winning his 22nd medal. |
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| The United States finished at the top of the table winning 46 gold medals and winning 103 medals overall. |
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| The early Five Nations competitions of the 1950s were unsuccessful for England, winning one match in the 1950 and 1951 championships. |
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| England commenced the new decade by winning the inaugural Six Nations title. |
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| Although the 2002 Six Nations Championship title was won by France, England had the consolation of winning the Triple Crown. |
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| Silverware was still secured in 2012 though by winning the LV Cup against Northampton at Worcester's Sixways Stadium. |
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| The cup sponsor changed to Pilkington, and Bath after a blip in 1988 dominated that cup as well winning it a further six times. |
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| England won their first ever International Origin series game after winning game 1 of the 2012 series held in St Helens by 8 points. |
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| In the end England survived a shock result occurring after winning by 6 points. |
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| This supposed grudge match did not eventuate, and the series faded out with Britain again winning with consummate ease. |
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| Great Britain surprised everyone by winning the first test, but lost the next two. |
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| Winning all Four Cups refers to winning the Super League, League Leaders Shield, Challenge Cup and World Club Challenge in one season. |
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| In 1996 it was replaced by the Super League although winning the Super League is still regarded as winning the Championship. |
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| Wigan extended their record to 30 Challenge Cup Finals, winning 19 of them. |
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| The two contested consecutive Challenge Cup finals in 1996 and 1997, and later in 2001, St Helens winning all three. |
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| In Super League Grand Finals, St Helens and Bradford met twice, in 1999 and 2002, St Helens again winning all encounters. |
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| Leeds then retained the Super League championship by winning the Grand final. |
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| The Rhinos did however, successfully defend their Super League title by winning the 2012 Super League Grand Final. |
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| However, dark days continued, the team struggled to compete, winning only a handful of games. |
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| The club went unbeaten for the entire league season, drawing only one match and winning a record equalling 29 games. |
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| Rose did not enjoy the same success at the Tour Championship though, when a second round 75 ended his chances of winning. |
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| The Challenge Belt was retired in 1870, when Young Tom Morris was allowed to keep it for winning the tournament three consecutive times. |
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| So, despite losing the International Match, the American team achieved its main objective, winning the British Open. |
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| To win the cup, the American team needed Irwin to win or tie the match by winning or tying the hole. |
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| Perry competed in a total of 20 Davis Cup matches, winning 34 of his 38 rubbers in singles, and 11 out of 14 in doubles. |
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| The national team would go on to dominate the competition, winning the next three tournaments. |
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| The American team, of which Dwight Davis was a part, surprised the British by winning the first three matches. |
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| From 1950 to 1967, Australia dominated the competition, winning the Cup 15 times in 18 years. |
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| She was also a powerful lawn tennis player, winning the 1954 and 1955 British junior championships. |
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| She rounded off that year's Wimbledon by winning the mixed doubles championship with Australia's Fred Stolle. |
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| Fitzsimmons entered the tournament, and knocked out four opponents on his way to winning the competition. |
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| Moving on to the United States, Fitzsimmons fought four more times in 1890, winning three and drawing one. |
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| After that, he managed another winning streak against some obscure boxers, but by 1958 it was clear his best days in boxing were long over. |
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| Benn then went on a winning streak of six fights leading up to another world title challenge. |
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| Bruno kept winning fights, helping him to retain his spot as one of the world's leading heavyweights. |
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| After winning his first 21 fights, he defeated Donovan Ruddock in 1992 to take over the number one position in the WBC rankings. |
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| Lewis played in the World Series of Poker in both 2006 and 2007, and was knocked out without winning any money. |
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| Hamed's popularity grew, his unorthodox style winning a large fan base and his boxing antics generating a large group of detractors. |
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| Medina would go on to have many more tough title fights, remarkably winning versions of the featherweight world title another three times. |
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| He was Britain's sole representative in boxing at the Athens Games, winning a silver medal at the age of 17 in the lightweight boxing category. |
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| On 5 December 2009, Khan defeated mandatory challenger Salita in 76 seconds, winning by TKO in the first round. |
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| Haye then defeated heavyweight Monte Barrett at The O2 Arena in London on 15 November 2008, winning via TKO in the fifth round. |
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| Despite winning on the undercard, a fight between Briggs and Haye didn't materialize. |
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| In the six runnings of the Epsom Derby between 2008 and 2013, Irish horses filled 20 of the first 30 placings, winning the race 5 times. |
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| At the 2009 National Games, Hubei won both the gold and silver medals, with Inner Mongolia winning bronze. |
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| For example, in a race with seven or less runners in the UK, only the first two finishers would be considered winning bets with most bookmakers. |
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| Boxing is a tactic that increases the odds of winning an exotic wager by removing the need to choose the exact order. |
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| Longevity is no guarantee of success, however, as 13 of the 34 never tasted the glory of winning the race. |
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| He was buried at the winning post of the Aintree Racecourse, which is still a destination for his fans. |
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| Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton delighted the 120,000 Formula One fans by winning the 2014 British Grand Prix. |
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| Moss raced from 1948 to 1962, winning 212 of the 529 races he entered, including 16 Formula One Grands Prix. |
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| Mansell was quick again and on the back of winning two titles, he was still hot property. |
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| Hill came back into contention for the title after winning the British Grand Prix, a race his father had never won. |
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| Hamilton began karting in 1993 at the age of eight, at the Rye House Kart Circuit and quickly began winning races and Cadet class championships. |
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| Hamilton moved to the reigning Euro Series champions ASM for the 2005 season and dominated the championship, winning 15 of the 20 rounds. |
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| However he extended his lead to 12 points after winning the Japanese Grand Prix in heavy rain after Alonso crashed. |
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| By winning the United States Grand Prix, Hamilton secured his third Drivers' Championship with three races left to run. |
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| On 2 December 2016, just five days after winning the World Driver's Championship, Rosberg announced his shock retirement from the sport. |
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| Scheckter ended the Williams winning streak when he won Ferrari's home Italian Grand Prix, Regazzoni finishing third behind both Ferraris. |
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| The team started well in the championship, with Jones winning the first round of the season in Argentina. |
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| Boutsen finished 5th in the championship with 37 points after also winning in Australia. |
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| Williams then ran a streak of victories, with Mansell winning the French Grand Prix, five seconds ahead of Alain Prost's Ferrari. |
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| Senna ended Williams' run of victories by winning in Hungary, finishing five seconds ahead of Mansell. |
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| Mansell dominated the first round in South Africa, qualifying in pole position and winning the race by 24 seconds from his teammate, Patrese. |
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| Prost won three of the next four Grands Prix for Williams, Senna winning the other race. |
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| Ferrari dominated for a third consecutive season, winning 15 of the 18 races. |
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| A switch to the new Ford Cosworth DFV, designed by former Lotus employee Keith Duckworth, in 1967 returned the team to winning form. |
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| Chapman was also successful at Indianapolis with the Lotus 29, almost winning the 500 at its first attempt in 1963 with Clark at the wheel. |
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| The Lotus 78, and then the Lotus 79 of 1978 were extraordinarily successful, with Mario Andretti winning the F1 World Championship. |
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