Edward Kennedy never won the presidency, but became a long- serving and important member of the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

He then won a big victory in the general election over the candidate of the Whig Party, General Winfield Scott.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

But the Turkish government invited a Hamas leader for talks in two thousand six after the party won Gaza elections.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn also experienced a sweet victory when she won the gold medal in the womens downhill ski race.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

In nineteen fifty-seven, he won a special award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the best continuing performance.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

Earlier this week, President Obama won a major political victory with congressional passage of his health care reform plan.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

I won't stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

She won easily. She was the first woman and first black to be elected to Congress to represent Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

And when this happens,sir, the U.S.will be importing food, only there won't be any place from where to import it."

VOA: special.2009.11.10

In South Carolina, state representative Nikki Haley won more votes than the three men who sought the Republican nomination for governor.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

On election day, the legislative candidates supporting Lincoln won four thousand more popular votes than the candidates supporting Douglas.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

They saw Grant as a strong and silent soldier a great leader who had won a long and bitter war.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

But in nineteen seventy-five, two pitchers in Major League Baseball, Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally, fought the system and won.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

Three scientists based in the United States have won the two thousand nine Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

VOA: special.2009.10.07