Mr Sharon won a convincing election victory on a platform to secure Israel's defence, defeating the incumbent, Ehud Barak.

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When Kearney took Jones' neat pass to brush off the weak challenges of Brett Kimmorley and Robbie Ross to claim a third try on 19 minutes, the platform for victory was complete.

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It helped establish the platform for a vital victory on a night when England's World Cup heroes put their false start against Sweden behind them.

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But Varun Chopra (36) and Maddy laid the platform for the Bears' victory.

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The National Union (Republican) Party had won a sweeping victory in the 1864 elections on a platform that explicitly called for a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.

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It was great that he got a clean sheet today and that, of course, was a platform for us to get a victory.

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And so we must step back and ask ourselves: Is the point of the cloud that we continue our victory of standardization that leads to choice, or is the cloud going to become the next proprietary platform?

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