Succeeding with great difficulty

Usage examples of winning.

Worse, traditional accounting provided benefits to companies that sold winning positions while holding on to losers.

Tange Kenzo, who began winning prizes in architectural competitions during the war and later was for a time associated with Maekawa.

Unhappily, the baronet, who by some fatality never could see when he was winning the battle, thought proper in his wisdom to water the dryness of his sermon with a little jocoseness, on the subject of young men fancying themselves in love, and, when they were raw and green, absolutely wanting to be--that most awful thing, which the wisest and strongest of men undertake in hesitation and after self-mortification and penance-- married!

It is hard to stay calm and casual in a crowd of potential bettors when you feel absolutely certain of winning any bet you can make.

He thought of her as his last fleeting glimpse had shown her, beautiful, not with the blossomy prettiness that passes away with the spring sunshine, but with a rich vitality of which noble outlines and winning expression were only the natural accidents.

While we were eating the soup the winning numbers from the lottery were brought in.

No slouch, the senior legate Gaius Verres had assessed Malleolus accurately before the party had got as far as Tarentum, and cultivated the quaestor with such charm and winning ways that Malleolus deemed Verres the best of good fellows.

Another quick glance told him that Mank was wrestling a smile though he seemed to be winning.

Her parents had told her that those were much more important than winning popularity contests, but Marcie was smart enough to know better.

There again was no long tale to tell of, for Hiarandi was just winning the gate, and the wall was cleared of the Roman shot-fighters, and the Markmen were standing on the top thereof, and casting down on the Romans spears and baulks of wood and whatsoever would fly.

And even then, we harbor little hope of winning if Nugaril and Mentes take an active role in the fighting.

Lord Havard might have replied to this was lost when Sir William Trevayne peevishly demanded that Milord accept his winnings or continue the game.

Sharp allowed the monoplane to proceed under its own power, while he raced on to the finish mark, winning, of course, by a large margin.

In the campaigns against Morillo, the Spanish commander-in-chief, his daring activity and success were striking, and to him was largely due the winning the last great battle of the war, that of Carabobo.

My ambitions were satisfied by winning the civil war here, and overfulfilled by the Sierran territory we have occupied.