Ten years later, you might think that reformers would be feeling triumphant.
The “free Catalonia” camp took a triumphant 95% of the vote. Yet only 27% of potential voters turned out.
The American singer Diana Ross, the main performer at the introductory ceremonies, led an elaborate song-and-dance number that was to culminate in a triumphant shot.
The triumphant success of NASA's Apollo 11 moon landing 40 years ago is a familiar story to most Americans, but it may be a surprise to some that then-President Richard Nixon was ready for disaster.
The army made a triumphant entry into the enemy's capital.
Then came stagflation, taxpayer revolts, fiscal crisis and a triumphant revival of free-market ideas.
The campaigners knew that either way they would win. If they had got through, it would have been a triumphant breaching of the blockade.
Faith triumphant; knowing not defeat or fear.
They tried to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action.
Yet there was no hint of triumphant jubilation in President Bush's voice as he reacted to news that the long-standing U.S. Nemesis is stepping down.
Albert was triumphant in his harlequin costume.
The next four, or eight, years may be a disappointment, a triumphant renewal or something in between.
At the end, with a wide, almost triumphant grin, he declared, “The work you are doing exceeds the amount of calories you take in. Every day, every trip you take—you are slowly killing yourselves.”
Evenings were spent at the theatre. This ballet told the story of the triumphant building of a hydroelectric dam.
There was a positively triumphant note in her voice.
A triumphant smile appeared on his face.
This ballet told the story of the triumphant building of a hydroelectric dam.
It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns.
When they are not tawdry opportunities to air grievances, settle scores or rationalise errors, they tend to be tales of adversity with a triumphant twist.
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