His victory made him a hero.

Its victory has now made it a fixture on the political landscape.

After winning a number of local surfing competitions, he began training professionally.

How, then, did his victory help to fuel the financial growth of the subsequent decade?

Since his victory in 2004, Yushchenko s popularity ratings have plummeted to around 8 .

Barack Obama understands this indeed, it helped to secure his victory.

After winning the vote in the early hours of 31 January 2009, Ahmed was sworn in later in the day at the Kempinski hotel in Djibouti.

And there s the question of how Dylan, with his twin aversion to formal dress and formal speeches, would react to receiving the Nobel.

His victory shows that it is possible to succeed in politics through decency, honesty, and high intelligence.

Once in power, he essentially shut them out of the grabbing game, preserving it for himself and his cronies.

Qatar's World Cup delegation reacts to FIFA's announcement on Thursday (BBC screen grab)

I've read all of Haruki Murakami's novels, and I know the novelist himself really dislikes all of the hype .

After winning the race, Putin kept the proxy program active, and Krasnorutsky still regularly contributes expertise on education issues.

Since winning the presidency, Hollande has won a parliamentary majority and pushed Germany toward accepting joint liability for eurozone countries debts.

Hezbollah may be quite comfortable with the returns. Winning would have placed Hezbollah in a challenging position.

Such an alliance would make Yushchenko's rule, if he wins, more difficult and he knows it.

Papadopoulos assumed the Presidency on 28 February 2003 after winning a first round majority with 51.51 of the vote.

He took office after winning the March 2006 presidential election and was re elected to a second term in March 2011.

Unchallenged in his second and last term, will he retain even that slight democratic instinct?

The last champion was Hacksaw Jim Duggan, who claimed the title after Scott Hall threw it in the garbage and he found it in a dumpster.

Indeed, after Thomas Sargent won the Nobel Prize in Economics last year, he cited it as a precedent in his acceptance speech.

In his speech on the occasion of winning the Nobel prize, Saramago spoke about his childhood and remembered his grandfather's death He went to the garden of his house.

The most famous event of Samo's career is his victory over the Frankish royal army under Dagobert I in 631 or 632.

After winning two Hungarian Championship titles in individual competitions he participated as part of the Hungarian National Fencing Team 130 times between 1965 and 1977.

Upon re election, Roosevelt immediately set about implementing a new method of providing military hardware and shipping to Britain without the need for monetary payment.

Following the operation, Bagapsh died on May 29, 2011 and Ankvab served as Acting President until winning election in his own right later in 2011.

NEW DELHI President Barack Obama s first foreign trip since winning a second term highlights Asia s new centrality to America s economy and security.

Less than a year after his narrow victory over opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko in the 2010 presidential elections, Tymoshenko was arrested on trumped up contempt charges.

A perceived change in American behavior under the Obama administration may facilitate Khamenei s support for, or at least acquiescence in, an electoral victory by Mousavi.

After winning the presidency, Chen could have risen above theatrics by focusing on two Taiwanese strengths its economy and its unbroken humanist Chinese cultural tradition.

When President Mwai Kibaki first ran for election in 2002, he promised that, if he won, his government would deliver a new constitution within 100 days of taking office.

By leaving Pinchuk off this list, Yushchenko may be hinting that he wants a truce with Ukraine's most powerful magnate should he become president.

McCain appears to embrace the view that such meetings are something of a reward, to be offered when preconditions are met (Iran comes to mind) and withdrawn when certain lines are crossed, as Russia was judged to have done this August in Georgia.

After winning the Estonian War of Independence against both Soviet Russia and the German Freikorps and Baltische Landeswehr volunteers, the Tartu Peace Treaty was signed on 2 February 1920.

For example, in 2012, the Socialists obtained nearly 50 of the seats in the National Assembly, despite having won only 29 of the vote in the first round.

A lawyer by profession, Rajapaksa was first elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka in 1970, and served as Prime Minister from 6 April 2004 until his victory in the 2005 Presidential election.

The US Supreme Court has interpreted the US Constitution in a way that vitiates all restrictions on campaign spending, essentially allowing wealthy American individuals and corporations to buy elections.

Obama swung into action, now not just a suspect candidate but a trusted president whose services were sorely needed by the battered population of the East Coast.

After winning the presidency in 2002, Álvaro Uribe vowed to defeat the guerrillas who have added terrorism to their repertoire mounting an offensive that employed all of the power of the state and its law enforcement authorities.

However, after winning a bet from Cuddy by not taking the drug for a week, he concedes that he has an addiction, but says that it is not a problem because it does not interfere with his work or life.

But, even if he does, as seems likely, Chávismo without Chávez implies a more subdued role for Venezuela in Latin America and the world and perhaps a thaw in relations with the comandante s imperialist bogeyman.

Throughout his campaign, Toledo insisted that he would do so, but he admitted his paternity only two years later, after the girl's mother turned to the Supreme Court for help.

Yanukovich s record of violence and disdain for democratic norms is too entrenched to think that, should he win, he will ever allow his position to be challenged again.

After winning the elections on October 7th 2012, which secured his mandate from 2013 to 2019, he announced in December that he had to return to Cuba for another operation.

ISTANBUL Turkish democracy is at a turning point, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced after winning a crucial vote in a referendum to change Turkey s constitution. We are sitting an important exam.