First, should the success of the victor be measured in votes or seats?
Rules, moreover, determine which officials count the votes, certify the victor, and declare the election to be legitimate.
We then coded each story as either accepting or denying the mandate claim made by the victors.
Writers recounted stories and traditions circulating at the time of their visits, all obtained from victors, ruling classes and traders.
Sometimes, of course, the victor simply imposes a new core belief on the loser (though this is likely to lead to further war).
This mechanism would induce losers to automatically cease resisting and, at the same time, successfully communicate surrender to the victor.
The ' ' weeds,' ' echoing ' ' words,' ' represent a deathly counterpart to the laurels of the victors.
Suppose it turns out that what he did in fact leads him to swift victor y and that he planned it that way.