Advocates of limited government, it is said, have lost the battle of health care, but won the war of the commerce clause.
However, the conventional wisdom was that Comcast had won itself a battle but would ultimately lose the war in spectacular fashion, since the obvious move for the FCC would have been to reclassify broadband access as a Title II "telecommunications service, " which is the same way the agency regulates wireline phones, and ISPs would have suddenly found themselves in a regulatory nightmare.
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Many of those polled said they believe the U.S. has the ability to win the war, but won't.
Williams agreed with what Ahmed Rashid said just a few moments ago, that the battle has been won in the southern village - for now - but the war, he thinks, is far from over.
But in the coming months of war and bad economic times it won't be the only company that will try to wiggle out of contractual obligations.
Some were upset that the New York Giants received a ticker-tape parade in New York city less than a week after they won the Super Bowl, but that there were no set plans for the Iraq war veterans.
But everyone realises that ultimately the war cannot be won on the battlefield and a dialogue with the Taliban is needed.
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"We're happy about the peace agreement but sorry, because these kids won't get the change to see the end of the war, " said one young girl.
Wigan started the day as favourites for the drop, but manager Paul Jewell is an expert at engineering a last-day survival and he won the war of nerves again.
Not because special interests will turn back the clock (which need not happen) or because the world is heading for another Great Depression (most unlikely) but mainly because the war of ideas has not yet been won.
Edison won the battle, but until recently he appeared to have lost the war.
Edison may have won the battle, but until recently he appeared to have lost the war.
But we are also heirs to those who won the peace and not just the war, who turned sworn enemies into the surest of friends, and we must carry those lessons into this time as well.
Forty years later, when Ronald Reagan approached the cold war as a battle to be not only fought but also won, he was following a Churchillian strategy.
But Mittal would then split off Dofasco , the company Arcelor won earlier this week after a heated bidding war for 3.95 billion pounds.
But critics say the rise in drug-related violence shows the war against organised crime is far from won.
Russia has won the Southern Corridor battle, but in doing so, stands even greater chance of losing the larger gas market war.
But that no longer matters much: the browser war against Netscape that started the current fuss has in effect been won by Microsoft.
America's Bill Tilden, one of the game's greatest players, won back-to-back post-war titles, but within three years French men were following Lenglen's lead in dominating their event.
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