Politicians and generals must resist the temptation to view this strategy as a model that will assure success in every conflict.
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They could not stop the deal going through: the buyout group and its allies held 71% of the shares, so were assured success.
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Winning it often assures success for an artist who might have been hard to place, but it rarely curries favour with the critics purported to have made the choice.
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