At first, the character is winning a little more than he's losing.

The series and character have won several awards over the years, including:

In any given fair conflict between two characters, the character with the higher score in the relevant attribute will eventually win.

What's the sense in Lane's being the writer and director if he can't let his own character win that war?

His honest and trustworthy character and medical skills do however win him a few staunch friends.

But I remind them that an unreasonably strong character doesn't win respect.

And it didn't matter to him if his characters won or lost in the end.

Justice Brennan's character won him affection on the Court across ideological lines.

Throughout the stories, disaster hovers, with despair in the wings, but sometimes the characters do win through, and when that happens we are glad.

It was only the reputation which his high character had won for him which save him from prosecution.