electoral victory
collocation in Englishmeaningsofelectoralandvictory
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electoral
adjective[before noun]
uk/iˈlek.tər.əl/us/iˈlek.tɚ.əl/
relating to ...
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victory
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈvɪk.tər.i/us/ˈvɪk.tɚ.i/
an occasion when you win a game, competition, election, war, etc. or the fact that you ...
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(Definition ofelectoralandvictoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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From this vantage point, it sought to ensure itself anelectoralvictoryby any means necessary.
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They believed that the defence of democratic values was sufficient to guarantee theirelectoralvictory.
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With regard to acquisition of any such non-office benefits,electoralvictoryis unnecessary.
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Through anelectoralvictorya ' grand elector ' showed he had a larger clientele than his opponent.
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From the late 1880s until their landslideelectoralvictoryin 1906 liberals repeatedly found themselves cast in the party-political wilderness.
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In the second instance, elite autonomy depends on the size of theelectoralvictoryor the magnitude of the threat facing state officials.
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The issues which they shaped decisively in the first place, in turn, contributed most to theirelectoralvictory.
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Let us first make clear that this kind ofelectoralvictoryby the social democratic party is not an unreasonable scenario to use for our illustration.
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Put differently, government coalition bargaining that begins only after the votes have been counted cannot influence the probability ofelectoralvictory; electoral coalitions can.
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Electoral politics is widely regarded as a 'numbers game' played by savvy political operatives whose main preoccupation is to calculate margins ofelectoralvictoryand defeat.
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Despite all the monetary, gastronomic and transport resources deployed to attract voters, this could not guarantee anelectoralvictory.
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That would mean that anelectoralvictoryhad greater legitimising power if it was won over another person.
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Welfare blamed the "rentier" circles throughout its ordeal of being unable to secure power despite anelectoralvictoryin 1995.
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Perhaps modesty in the first flush of anelectoralvictoryis hard to expect.
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Price gained theelectoralvictory; there is no denying it.
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I am not concerned with the poll tax, nor with the national curriculum, nor with paving the way to anelectoralvictoryfor my party at the next election.
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The governing party would argue its corner on the strength of itselectoralvictoryand its parliamentary majority.
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He is ready to announce that there is no freedom he will protect, no frontier he will defend if such freedom or frontier stands between him andelectoralvictory.
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They are prepared to put up with the orthodoxy so long as it looks as though it will deliverelectoralvictory.
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When the champagne of comingelectoralvictoryis bubbling in the veins, how many rash commitments are made!
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