1.   Drum Major Alan McBride pushed World Champion John Noble all the way to the winning line and snatched victory on M and D preference.

2.   Will Cleveland turf out its only Tory or could Tim Devlin again snatch victory?

3.   At the same time, he snatched victory from the Bears.

4.   He finally succeeded in February of last year, when he seemed to have beaten undefeated countryman Erik Morales only to have victory snatched away by curious scoring.

5.   If the federalists somehow snatch victory against all odds, Bouchard will almost certainly resign from politics.

6.   It was the sort of situation in which the favored team makes a last march to snatch victory from valiant underdogs.

7.   She cornered Mary Pierce and then snatched victory by forcing Pierce to beat herself.

8.   The Sixers waited until the fourth quarter to try and snatch victory.

9.   There was no magical rally, no hero du jour that snatched another victory.

10.   This plight might be moderately palatable if the Angels were going down blazing, if they were having victories cruelly snatched away from them at the last instant.