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Quantifying Victory: Napoleon's Armiess Victories and Losses [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
Napoleonic France won a great many of more than 150 battles in which it engaged. There has been much dispute about which, if any, of the many qualitative theories as to why it was so successful is correct; many of them centered on the personal characteristics of Napoleon himself. However, none of these theories appears amenable to statistical analysis.
Chris Tofallis, Lenk Ronald J, Lenk Max
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Community-based ecotourism as a social transformation tool for rural community: A victory or a quagmire?

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 2022
V. Kunjuraman, Rosazman Hussin, R. Aziz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Customer's Victory

1999
It is starting from the debate on globalization, as discussed in the introduction, that one can reach an understanding of what we will be calling the customer’s victory, and how this leads to a revolution in organizations. As we saw, the idea of globalization today is no longer contested, but this is not to say that the concept is accepted everywhere ...
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Victory

, 2019
Victory has historically been regarded as the ‘telos’ or ‘very object’ of war. As one well-placed commentator has noted, war is all about winning. It is baffling to note, then, that contemporary just war theory, the predominant framework for addressing ...
Cian O’Driscoll
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Obama and Bush: their victory and non-victory speeches

Onomázein Revista de lingüística filología y traducción, 2012
This article aims to analyse the use of the first person plural, second person and third person references in Obama’s and Bush’s victory speeches. The contrasting circumstances surrounding the election of both presidents were imprinted on discourse through different patterns of personal refe-rences (martin, 1992) and transitivity structures (Halliday ...
Fernández Martínez, Dolores   +1 more
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Turning Nothing into Something: The Victorious Alchemy of Victory

Conradiana, 2015
Starting from the incongruous juxtaposition of victory, the novel's title, and nothing, the word on which it ends, this article explores the contradictions that characterize Conrad's novel, be it in its polarized critical reception, or in its stylistic and thematic makeup, to show that this tension is seminal to the work's value.
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An Analysis of Figurative Language on Joe Biden's Victory Speech

, 2021
Febriani Nainggolan   +3 more
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Conclusion: the Victory of Dividends and the Dividends of Victory

2001
To return to Max Weber’s quote with which this book began, great banks and stock exchanges are not places for ‘ethical culture’ but weapons for achieving power in a national economic struggle for this-worldly goals.2 The US promotion of direct financing in the postwar period has been fundamental to its extension of structural power in international ...
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Fragile Victory

2023
The liberal democratic order that seemed so stable in North America and Western Europe has become precarious. This book argues that liberalism has never been secure and that since the 1930s the international order has had to be crafted, redeployed, and extended in response to both victories and setbacks.
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