In the longer run, the officials acknowledge, any lasting victory over the insurgency will be based on economics, not troop movements or political convictions.

But it is not enough to achieve a lasting victory.

Only in that manner will we achieve a true and lasting victory.

These expeditions were successful, but brought no lasting victories.

But with help, hope and humanity, we just might have a chance at a truly lasting victory against terror.

But the real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

If labor is ever to win a lasting victory, it must include everyone in its ranks.

The battle on the home front wasn't over, but a lasting victory had been won.

It is time we realised that we cannot fight nature, because we can never have a lasting victory.

Her army could occupy territory, but could never win a lasting victory.