What's the difference between outmanoeuvre and surpass?
Outmanoeuvre
Definition:
(v. t.) To surpass, or get an advantage of, in maneuvering; to outgeneral.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was a damning final match for a West Ham manager completely outmanoeuvred by his opposite number, Roberto Martínez, who salvaged this match with a double half-time substitution.
(2) That is the most frustrating aspect of the current political debate, because in an effort to outmanoeuvre one another, our leaders are making promises to enact a policy for which the benefits are dubious.
(3) • Forces across England did not know how to respond to social media networks, particularly encrypted BlackBerry messaging, which enabled rioters and looters to organise and at times outmanoeuvre police.
(4) There are already signs that he is being outmanoeuvred by Cruz when it comes to recruiting delegates.
(5) Having already outmanoeuvred James Tomkins, Moyes’s prize asset shot low beyond Steve Mandanda’s reach, leaving Ledley staring at the floor.
(6) But the regime's counterattack has outmanoeuvred the poorly disciplined and ill-trained rebels who barely made a stand at Brega before fleeing toward Ajdabiya.
(7) Vlad flashed a half-hearted smile, keen not to look outmanoeuvred by such third-rate power games.
(8) Tearing up the rules of Brussels conduct, Tspiras and Varoufakis, his finance minister-cum-field marshal, have outmanoeuvred and divided the surplus states by constantly re-engaging, over five months, from unexpected, demanding and outrageous battle positions.” It is, of course, possible that Tsipras has overplayed his hand.
(9) The game against Liverpool was supposed to be pivotal in itself, a chance for Chelsea to copy the blueprint that was so successful when they outmanoeuvred Manchester City at the Etihad in February.
(10) Desperate public bodies were gulled and outmanoeuvred with the blessing of central government, which sought only to keep the corporations off its back and the liabilities off its balance sheets.
(11) The west is being "outspent, outmanoeuvred and out-strategised" by violent Islamic extremism, Tony Blair has warned.
(12) They would eventually get a consolation goal, Omar Gonzalez heading home a Camilo Sanvezzo free-kick in injury time, but they had been thoroughly outmanoeuvred.
(13) Well, he certainly outmanoeuvred the so-called Hotmail plot of Blairite ministers and backbenchers.
(14) By the time of the show he had upped the rhetoric to claim that Boeing was outmanoeuvring Airbus: "We've got them boxed and bracketed."
(15) Netanyahu has also refused to give ground on Jerusalem; has yet to endorse the US-backed road-map concept of a two-state solution; insists the Palestinian leadership must first accept his definition of Israel as a Jewish state; and has refused to contemplate returning the Golan Heights to Syria, another crucial part of the Arab-Israeli peace jigsaw.The only issue that Netanyahu and Obama appear to have agreed on is the threat posed by Iran, and on this, the US leader was outmanoeuvred.
(16) Ever since taking office in 2006, Mr Maliki has failed to be the national leader he should have been and, instead, has devoted himself to propping up his own Shia base, outmanoeuvring or subordinating rivals, and, increasingly, to excluding Sunnis from political power.
(17) Dusan and [Steven] Davis were fantastic.” Fraser Forster had palmed away a Raheem Sterling shot after Iheanacho had outmanoeuvred Virgil van Dijk on the touchline but Southampton were into their stride early on and within eight minutes of that chance for Sterling, City were two down and blue shirts in defence wore vacant stares.
(18) Europe and the US sat on the sidelines of the Syrian conflict, again outmanoeuvred by Russian intervention.
(19) If they promoted positive lesbian- and gay-rights policies, the Tories could outmanoeuvre Labour and win over more gay voters.
(20) Can this bruised and battered army, ridiculed for abandoning its promises on tuition fees, outmanoeuvred by its Tory partners over electoral reform, and struggling under a leader who went from national hero before the election to national hate figure after, really recover to its pre-election heights of 20% and more in the polls?
Surpass
Definition:
(v. t.) To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.
Example Sentences:
(1) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(2) Thereafter, donor type cells expressed an intermediate Thy 1.2 brightness; this population then persisted and surpassed the other subsets.
(3) Funding for Title X declined during the 1980s and is now surpassed by Medicaid as the largest source of family planning dollars.
(4) Results demonstrated that community clients surpassed institutional clients in social and cognitive skills, but not in daily living skills.
(5) Studies show that professionals often fail to reach reliable or valid conclusions and that the accuracy of their judgements does not necessarily surpass that of laypersons, thus raising substantial doubt that psychologists or psychiatrists meet legal standards for expertise.
(6) Liberia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Niger have already reached or surpassed the MDG target.
(7) Some 59.29 % had opposed the remuneration report, a rebellion only exceeded by one at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) at the height of the banking crisis, and surpassing the 59% that voted against the £6.8m pay deal for Sir Martin Sorrell at his advertising company WPP in 2012.
(8) The hyperglycaemic response to nickel of female rats was more marked than that of males, with an increase in intracellular glucose, more marked during pregnancy, which even surpassed the plasma concentration of glucose.
(9) Their hearty laughter far surpassed any private hopes of entertaining this endearingly stodgy bunch.
(10) In hepatitis B patients no coincidence of the results has been observed: the count of theophylline-sensitive E-RFC on conversion to the total E-RFC count surpassed the count of T gamma-cells.
(11) The results surpassed all expectations and the change process has instilled a new sense of pride among nurses at the hospital and sparked the development of training sessions for other nurses in the region.
(12) More than 50% of excessively subnormal motility indexes improved to a level approaching or surpassing normal, making motility the single most significant aspect of the effects of ligation on semen quality.
(13) The men and women between them can now boast four medals at this Games, surpassing their targets (they had hoped for one or two), not to mention the British women's best placing in 84 years in the team final.
(14) It is suggested that though competition with the maternal-nurturant rival may be worked through, often there is incomplete resolution of the surpassing and separation from the protective, loving, but dominant oedipal father, thus limiting true professional autonomy.
(15) Although there are several complications, myocutaneous (MC) island flap surpassed the deltopectoral (DP) flap in the reconstruction of the pharyngo-esophagus, tongue, oral cavity, mandible, and of a massive defect.
(16) What an inspiration: teaching us all to embrace life, look after each other, and have love and compassion no matter what May 14, 2014 Comedian Jason Manford, who championed Stephen's cause and helped him surpass his fundraising goal, released a statement on Wednesday afternoon: Guardian readers have also added their tributes in the comments of the article about his death, with one reflecting on the way Stephen mastered social media in order to raise money for charity and document his story.
(17) When continued success was not forthcoming, and as later-maturing peers caught up to and surpassed his athletic accomplishments, the student sought to protect his sense of self-esteem by rationalizing that his lack of success was due to a physical problem.
(18) Two main arguments have stimulated the development of hydrogel and silicone lenses: flexibility allows folding and thus insertion through a small incision, and inertness promises excellent biocompatibility, possibly surpassing that of PMMA.
(19) This prompted Cameron to warn that the danger posed by Islamic State (Isis) extremists presented the biggest security threat of modern times, surpassing that of al-Qaida.
(20) Against vincristine, the cells showed a greater than 5,000-fold increase in resistance, far surpassing their resistance to the selection drug.