The results from last Saturday's elections show Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's coalition won a strong victory over Shi'ite religious parties.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Grant had led the Union army of the North to victory over the Confederate army of the South during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

He had led the Union army of the North to victory over the Confederate army of the South.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

The year before,he first played with the United States National Team in a victory over Costa Rica.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

His decisive victory over Republican Senator John McCain brought down the last racial barrier in American politics.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Grant was a military hero. He led Union troops of the North to victory over Confederate troops of the South in the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

The election was in November. Pierce,the Democrat, won a crushing victory over Scott,the Whig.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Artillerymen fired their guns to salute the victory over Lee.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

His owner says he has correctly predicted the World Cup's four quarterfinal games and Spain's semifinal victory over Germany.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

Both the president and the general are highly popular figures in wake of the victory over the Tamil rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

They have won three matches and drawn with Portugal, and are coming off a convincing three-nil victory over South American rival Chile.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

He has been ruled out of the game against the Netherlands after bruising a bone in his right ankle during a victory over Ivory Coast.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

involvement in Afghanistan. On one hand, congressional Republicans are pressing the president to beef up U.S.forces to ensure a victory over al-Qaida and the Taliban.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Chambliss and other Republicans hope to tap the energy of the Tea Party movement to sweep them to victory over Democrats in the congressional midterm elections.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The general,credited with leading his troops to victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels, in his letter to Mr.Rajapaksa, accuses senior government politicians of spreading rumors about him being a "traitor."

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

The powerful council, which supervises elections and has wide-ranging powers in the Islamic government, said a random recount of 10 percent of the ballot boxes nationwide upheld Mr.Ahmadinejad's landslide victory over reformist challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

Their 27-23 victory over the Arizona Cardinals gave the Steelers a record sixth Super Bowl championship, one more than the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers have won in the 43 seasons the game has been played.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

This victory gave Japan control over the economy of the southern part of what was then called Manchuria, in northeastern China.

VOA: special.2011.03.03

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

So,to get a sense of what the regional moisture patterns have been, dryness and wetness over such a long period of time in great detail, I would call it a kind of victory for paleoclimate science."

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Biden expressed surprise over President Ahmadinejad's reported margin of victory especially in urban areas where Iran's opposition appeared strongest.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

The win is the Canadians third consecutive women's ice hockey victory, with two of them coming over the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

"The American people had a victory in Massachusetts. And they were sending us the message stop and start over,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

As a result of Russia's victory, Moscow now has firm economic and political control over South Ossetia and over another Georgian separatist region,Abkhazia.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01