Examples of won

• There is a substantial can-pay-won't-pay brigade.

• Local reform had neither changed women's behaviour nor won their hearts, but it had defeated mass anti-colonial labour politics for the time being.

• Would these candidates have won without the electoral advantage accorded to them because of their states' partisan compositions?

• I began reading it with some reservations but by the end a text closely supported by carefully chosen illustrations had won my admiration.

• Among claims and counterclaims of faulty ballots and fraudulent tallies, supporters of both camps claimed that their man had won.

• If more seats can be won by nominating more candidates, then the original strategy is an undernomination.

• Leaders on both sides of the political fence recognized that national legitimacy had to be won to ensure the health of the new federal union.

• He said he was ' the first and only to have won his confidence, free access to him and a place to stay in his palace '.*!