The dark side and the triumphant side.

It was a moment of triumph, the triumph of sneaking a peek at the streets, the people, after having spent so many days longing for a glimpse of these things.

Soviet propaganda actively fostered a myth of the inevitability of communism s triumph.

The plight of the Palestinians the victims of Zionism s triumph touches another neuralgic point in the European mind.

The world has benefited enormously from the triumph of generosity, professionalism, common decency, and good sense.

Later still, he became the leader of that opposition at its moment of triumph.

All of this occurred very peacefully, with no wave of triumphalism, or even much enthusiasm.

Even to contemplate such a possibility is proof of diplomatic failure, not a triumph of real leadership.

Sarkozy bowed to his European critics and enjoyed a diplomatic triumph.

Indeed, the UN has had two major recent triumphs, with two more on the way before the end of this year.

The fall began with an event that Putin perceived as a mighty triumph his blitzkrieg in August against Georgia.

What we see, two brilliant athletes skating over the surface with the elegance of swans, does not wholly reflect the nature of the triumph.

Moltke wanted to invade and defeat Russia before it was too late for Germany to triumph.

He was savoring a rare moment of triumph when his party spokesman stopped by in the late afternoon of November 9.

The 2008 global financial crisis, the resulting recession, and rapidly widening income and wealth inequality have punctured the glib triumphalism of economics.

From disturbing images to ones meant to document triumph, he also said that staged photography was common practice.

If SARS is brought under control worldwide in the next few months, public health authorities will have achieved a great triumph.

Their inability to unite even in celebrating their shared triumph in World War II is a clear sign of the geopolitical challenges that lie ahead.

And also triumph, this sense of transcendence, this I never knew that. Ah, this is something new.

But this apparently coordinated pushback against global protest movements is not yet triumphant not even in China, as the people of Wukan have shown.

After triumphing at London 2012 alongside Kenny and Hoy, Hindes admitted to deliberately falling to the track following a poor start.

The leaders that brought on failure and the groups that did not triumph become heroes for being able to claim that they courageously fought the enemy without being crushed.

Although President Bush might wish to demonize Lula, the sheer scale of Lula's triumph at the polls means that America won't be able to delegitimize the Brazilian president in this way.

The Middle East is not just facing the possible triumph of a force that seeks to achieve its strategic goals by mass murder and enslavement (for example, of Yazidi women and girls).

TOKYO The current tensions between China and Japan have revived talk about how far Japan has fallen since its glory years of the 1980 s.

But the scale of her triumph is mainly due to the collapse of her liberal coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party (FDP), which for the first time in the German Federal Republic s history will not be represented in the Bundestag.

As the Olympic torch relay itself a creation of the Nazis, first employed in the Berlin Games makes its way down Speer Jr. s avenue of power, the world will once again be made to witness a triumph of the totalitarian will.

From this standpoint, this year s World Cup has not only witnessed the triumph of European nations all semi finalists were European for the first time since 1982 but also the absence of even a glimmer of European emotions.

Two weeks after his triumph, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's resounding electoral victory in Brazil is still raising eyebrows on the right and expectations among Latin America's long dispirited leftists. His triumph represents both the symbols and realities of today's Latin America.

So Blair s concession that he must leave office, a decision so long postponed and so disastrously protracted, represents among other things a triumph of the mundane over the permanent temptation to believe that politics is about anything else.

Two weeks after his triumph, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's resounding electoral victory in Brazil is still raising eyebrows on the right and expectations among Latin America's long dispirited leftists.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.