France needed an outright victory to qualify for the tournament.
Napoleon and most French leaders were confident of an outright victory.
A long civil war followed, but neither side was strong enough for outright victory.
In short, he is only eight shots from having five outright victories.
Neither candidate broke any new ground or appeared to win an outright victory.
The first miss, from 20 feet, cost him an outright victory and his second consecutive major championship.
They posted their second outright victory of the week amid some consistent top six places.
He was trying to talk people into voting for a third party that offers little hope of an outright victory.
As they all came to seed at different times of the year none ever won an outright victory.
Contemporaries did not consider it an outright victory for hard money.