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Examples of win

win
To be more precise, he runs away from the law by defiantly refusing to win the race as the favourite competitor.
In majoritarian systems, the winning party's leader is inevitably the prime minister.
In other words, voters had good reason to vote strategically within parties to maximize the number of seats their side would win.
Suppose further that, in response to some past wrongdoing, an omnipotent being changes one of the numbers on the winning ticket.
They all gained some position of status, never mind how, sufficient to win the respect of the general public.
In practice, it is unlikely that many in fact won their income by providing day-labour for such a long period.
Then although it is highly unlikely that your ticket is the winner, this cannot make it rational to accept that your ticket won't win.
The underlying idea is that whoever wins the verbal argument will also be ethically right.
This can occur if it is possible for one of the losing candidates to win a seat when the other losing candidate(s) is dropped.
If they both show the same side, the first agent wins, otherwise the second agent wins.
The evidence suggests, therefore, that won has no subject-number feature at all, rather than that it is ambiguous between singular and plural.
And it is not just that music has traditionally won, but along with it, a dramatic and representational vocabulary subservient to the music.
As always in times of retrenchment, elected officials have needed to win the goodwill of voters and interest groups for these unpopular cutbacks.
If a candidate wins a majority of the total votes cast in the district in the first round, he or she is elected.
For this it won international appreciation and prestige.
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