The groups urged the winner to be magnanimous as he will face immense challenges as the new president "that should transcend partisan politics."
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This would involve no concessions by the authorities but, as an official put it, "in true Churchillian style we can afford tobemagnanimous in victory".
Mr. Obama gets to put her in a subordinate position while appearing tobemagnanimous, and her seat in the U.S. Senate will likely be filled by a more malleable Democrat who won't be plotting from day one to get to the White House.
He included whites and opposition figures in his Cabinet and he appeared tobe a magnanimous leader who was going to really be very wise in his leadership of Zimbabwe.