And it has already had some victories.

Neither an arrogant triumphalism nor a learned helplessness will do.

It is in the realm of ideas that China s political economic model, regardless of its environmental consequences, is scoring victories and looking like an attractive alternative to liberal democratic capitalism.

Besides Fontenoy he added Rocoux (1746) and Lawfeldt or Val (1747) to the list of French victories.

But these victories were all temporary and the balance of power between the two states continued up to 20th century.

The victories in the battles of Ivankovac, Mišar, Deligrad and Belgrade, led to the establishment of the Principality of Serbia in 1817.

Despite the fact that the victories of Felipe Calderon in Mexico, Alvaro Uribe in Colombia and Alan Garcia in Peru put a stop to a supposed tsunami of Socialist victories, the trend toward the left is unmistakable.

Overall, and despite the regime s recent victories, the fighting remains at a stalemate.

In the 1620s and 1630s, Joseon suffered from invasions by the Manchu which eventually extended to China as well.

These were among the many incremental victories Zhao won to help China s people break out of the suffocating stagnation of Maoist socialism.

Today s despots view near unanimous Soviet style electoral victories as vulgar and old fashioned.

Some of the past century s greatest intellectual triumphs, such as those related to the expanding universe and continental drift, have not been celebrated.

Russia must now ask itself about the relationship between short term military victories and long term economic prosperity.

His grandfather, Wilhelm I, had presided over Prussia s military victories, which enabled Bismarck to create the unified Reich in 1871.

The naysayers victories show that sovereignty based arguments that oppose any kind of European political union are on the march.

These victories create an opportunity for the government to reach out to the opposition and to minority groups to build a truly inclusive and democratic Sri Lanka, but this has not yet happened.

In arguing for his candidacy, Ortega wants supporters to believe that his presidential campaign is part of the wave of recent victories won by the Latin American left.

Remarkably, responsible macroeconomic policy has followed a wave of populist socialist electoral victories in recent years.

What victories has Russia s army achieved in these years? It could not even subdue Chechnya, a small republic within the Russian federation.

LONDON France s new president, François Hollande, has achieved a remarkable series of political victories at home and in Europe since his election in May.

These victories, as time transpired, would dramatically transform the distribution of power in East Asia, resulting in a reassessment of Japan's recent entry onto the world stage.

Although he achieved important victories over the Ottomans, Corvinus took him prisoner, and he was killed in 1477 in renewed fighting with Ottoman troops.

This was combined with British victories over the French at Madras, Wandiwash and Pondicherry that, along with wider British successes during the Seven Years' War, reduced French influence in India.

The problem is that the AKP s victories, together with America s courting of Erdogan and Gul, have triggered a crisis of direction among Turkey s once dominant secular and pro western elite.

Recent history has witnessed a series of triumphs that humanity can justly take pride in. These have involved the ending of colonialism, the limiting of autocracy, the strengthening of democratic values and institutions, the rise of liberalism and enhanced partnership between Governments and civil society in development.

Unfortunately, his streak of success will inevitably call forth an economic reckoning that will shock France s apparently unsuspecting citizens and doom the French elite s approach to the construction of Europe.

Serbia repelled three consecutive invasions by Austria, securing the first major victories of the war for the Allies, but was eventually overwhelmed by the combined forces of the Central Powers and forced to retreat through Albania to the Greek island of Corfu.

SÃO PAULO The recent opposition victories in Venezuela s municipal and state elections, together with the international financial crisis, have begun to set limits on the powers of President Hugo Chávez for the first time in the decade he has been in power.

So influential have medicine s triumphs over bacteria been that the war on cancer continues to be driven by the assumption that magic bullets will one day be found for tumor cells if the search is sufficiently clever and diligent.

LONDON One of the few liberal victories in a conservative age in the United States has been the formal acceptance of homosexuality. Same sex marriage is now recognized by the federal government and is legal in 35 out of 50 states.

For the Kremlin, Iran s nuclear program is only one chapter in a campaign to reassert Russia s role as a great power. Indeed, the interim agreement should be viewed as another in a string of recent Russian diplomatic victories over the US.

By 1460, the confederates controlled most of the territory south and west of the Rhine to the Alps and the Jura mountains, particularly after victories against the Habsburgs (Battle of Sempach, Battle of Näfels), over Charles the Bold of Burgundy during the 1470s, and the success of the Swiss mercenaries.