Finally,the two parties agreed to form an electoral committee to decide who had won the disputed votes.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

The terrible job of clearing the battlefield fell to the Union soldiers who had won the battle.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

But he had won the equally important fight to keep the presidency independent from Congress.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

So it was not clear at first who had won the presidential election.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

By nineteen sixty, Arthur had won the National Junior Indoor Championship.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

The South had won the battle of Chancellorsville.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

The announcement came after the state Supreme Court declared, in a unanimous decision, that Franken had won the race by a margin of 312 votes.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

The popular,Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV broke into its regular news programming to make the announcement that President Obama had won the prize,noting that the President had taken "many extraordinary steps in trying to achieve a rapprochement with the Arab and Islamic world."

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

But because of the way election areas had been organized, the Douglas Democrats won a majority of seats.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

It was the first time an African-American man had won one of the four major competitions in tennis.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

It was not until three days after the voting that election officials announced Cleveland had won.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

The North had not won a decisive victory in Virginia, the heart of the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

The United States had won twenty-five medals at the last Olympic Winter Games in Turin,Italy.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

The only time the United States had won more was on its own territory, in two thousand at the Salt Lake City, Utah Winter Games.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

Two summers had gone by since the start of the American Civil War, and the North had not yet won a major battle in Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

But the Bulldogs had never won the state championship -- until this year.

VOA: special.2010.11.25

She had won a year-long fellowship at Harvard University for writing about the homeless.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

He won the election. Grover Cleveland had mixed feelings about his defeat.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

The Union army had won a major battle at Gettysburg,Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Under his leadership, the Union had won.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

It seems hard to believe that it had been 62 years since the Americans had won Olympic gold in the four-man bobsled.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

Larijani read out the vote tallies for each of the 21 Cabinet posts, indicating which ministers had won approval and which had not.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

If the crash had not happened,he says, Komorowski would almost certainly have won in the first round.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

Mr.Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan won the August 30 elections, unseating the Liberal Democratic Party that had led Japan almost continuously since 1955.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

The Goran,or Change list, said on its website that it had won a majority in Suleimaniyah, the traditional bastion of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26