(1) "Virgin Trains has not been liked by the DfT because the department holds the view that it has been outsmarted and outgunned in commercial negotiations in previous years.
(2) "If you want to get on, certainly in tabloid journalism, then you have to outsmart the criminals and outsmart all these lawyers who are in it for the money.
(3) For more than a month, Russians around the country have been buying up candles and matches, salt and torches in an effort to outsmart the apocalypse some believe will come when the Mayan calendar runs out on Friday .
(4) Luckily for the viewer, if not for Breslin, he's not so easily outsmarted.
(5) In the process, he must figure out how to outsmart his captor and escape.
(6) There are no easy games in this competition.” South Africa’s Fourie du Preez, who plays his club rugby in Japan, described the result as the low point of his career and said the Springboks had been outsmarted.
(7) The reflex reaction to an act of mass terror was not to outsmart, out-think and marginalise the new enemy – it was to get even by being even more violent, lawless and vicious, leading Nato into the Afghan quagmire, and the coalition in Iraq.
(8) Murdoch, who knows how to outsmart his enemies, moved to gain control of events by saying he would withdraw his undertaking to spin off Sky News 30 minutes before Hunt spoke.
(9) There’s another Gypsy world champion.” Billy Joe Saunders outsmarts Andy Lee to win WBO middleweight title Read more He had just dethroned his fellow Traveller Andy Lee over 12 tense rounds, decking him twice in the third, but he was aware, too, that the media have been hunting down every squeak and indiscretion of the first member of their community to win a world heavyweight title, Tyson Fury.
(10) "Not even a big agent like Jorge Mendes can outsmart me," Zahovic told DNvevnik.
(11) It wasn't that I was being outsmarted necessarily, but I just felt different.
(12) Sherlock outsmarted the competition with almost 8 million viewers tuning into watch the climax of the super sleuth's battle against arch nemesis Moriarty in the final episode on Sunday night.
(13) Yet the teetotaller, a traditional Zulu with four wives and 21 children, has outsmarted and outmanoeuvred every political rival to retain an iron grip on the governing party.
(14) The studios are normally in the running; but they've been outsmarted in the recent past."
(15) They just outsmarted us.” The Springbok captain, Jean de Villiers, told the BBC that South Africa could still bounce back.
(16) "I feel sorry for him, the other parties outsmarted him," Narayan said.
(17) Interview Part two: On Lionel Messi, Teddy Sheringham and outsmarting defenders Guardian US sports has live minute-by-minute coverage of all MLS playoff games, including the second leg of LA Galaxy vs Real Salt Lake
(18) Even when Lawson became chancellor and Peter Walker succeeded him at energy, Lawson still played a crucial role in trying to outsmart Rooke.
(19) But it is still being outsmarted by Aldi, Lidl and domestic chains such as Musgrave’s SuperValu.
(20) A ll but lost in the excitement of Everton not only winning at Manchester United for the first time in more than 20 years but having a left-back in the opposition penalty area in the 86th minute looking to score a goal was the consideration that Roberto Martínez outsmarted David Moyes in the transfer window as well as on the Old Trafford pitch.
Outwit
Definition:
(v. t.) To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
(n.) The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alex Song was the provider, and Van Persie improvised to outwit John Ruddy with a deliciously delicate touch.
(2) Plans to pursue a second appeal against HMRC come despite MPs on the Public Accounts Committee citing the pub group's scheme as one example of "an illegitimate game to outwit the taxpayer".
(3) The Napoli midfielder Marek Hamsik gave Slovakia the lead after 24 minutes, outwitting his marker to slot home left-footed.
(4) Rosenthal himself was busy by then on a script for The System, a Granada anthology series dedicated to the theme of management, or the outwitting of it.
(5) So was the sense that she had outwitted the oil industry.
(6) An untold truth is that we use a tiny fraction of each computer's capacity: you could say we're already outwitted by them.
(7) Fortunately for the Guardian, the paper was able to retain barristers who outwitted the government’s lawyers.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Diane James’ acceptance speech from 16 September In her acceptance speech, she promised to bring a new professionalism to the party, saying: “We are going to confound our critics, we are going to outwit our opponents, we are going to build on our election success that we have achieved to date and do more.” But questions were raised about her commitment to the post after she declined to take part in hustings debates around the country with rival candidates.
(9) And finally, the carnage in Paris revived the reflex to slam doors, build walls and trust no one.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Angela Merkel consoles teenage refugee brought to tears Merkel was described as a political climber, a practitioner of “the politics of baby steps”, either outlasting or outwitting rivals.
(10) Vincent Kompany and Martín Demichelis never truly nullified his nuisance value, outwitted as they were by canny centre-forward play.
(11) But though a brilliant tactician who ran rings around his peers and rivals in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, confounded the Serbian opposition and outwitted an endless array of international mediators, Milosevic was a lousy strategist.
(12) They showed footage of Cruise as a soldier who dies and must relive events over and over until he cracks a way to outwit pesky aliens hell-bent on destroying earth.
(13) The Twitter hashtag #KarametWatan ("dignity of the nation") has been used with stunning effect to organise protests and outwit the government.
(14) Even as he found himself discussing how England might look to outwit an opposing lineout whose locks are 6ft 2in and 6ft 3in tall respectively, though, he will be uncomfortably aware his side could rack up a century of points and still depart the tournament with tails between legs.
(15) The series opener of Sherlock – watched live by almost 10 million people – updated Arthur Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia , the short story in which Holmes is, unusually, outwitted by an acute American adventuress in possession of a compromising picture of the Bohemian king.
(16) Outwitted in that first international by the veteran Irish centre-forward Dave Walsh, of Aston Villa, Charles's massive physique, 6ft 2ins and 15 stone, availed him little that day.
(17) We – civil society – have been co-opted into economic and institutional processes in which we are being outwitted and out-manoeuvred.
(18) He can’t take it that we’ve out-tactic-ed him and outwitted him.
(19) For Merkel, Juncker is also a liability, a fellow Christian Democrat she has been outwitted into reluctantly supporting for the top job in Brussels later this year.
(20) For the riots were not the work of mostly disaffected teenagers but a "feral" , "uneducated" "underclass" who somehow managed to outwit the police for the best part of a week using new technology.