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Outvote


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The vote marks only the third time since he became governor in 2003 that King has been outvoted and the first time that none of the Bank's internal MPC members have voted with their boss.
  • (2) The problem is political: though home ownership is falling for the first time since 1918 and is expected to keep falling, the 64% who do own vastly outvote the rest – and they want never-ending rises to pay off frighteningly high mortgages and provide everything else a family needs.
  • (3) Briefing journalists at his office in The Hague, Rutte made it plain that he was sympathetic to much of the British case, but said there were two big problems – freezing benefits for east Europeans and successfully negotiating a new deal that would protect Britain from being outvoted by the 19 countries that use the euro.
  • (4) Nobody will be outvoted.” Wednesday’s summit focused on “Fortress Europe” measures to try to stem the flow of refugees and migrants.
  • (5) Outgoing governor, Sir Mervyn King, was again outvoted, with a majority of policymakers leaving the QE programme at £375bn.
  • (6) But Murdoch's company adopted a more defensive tone in responding to MPs' hostile description of its 81-year-old patriarch, noting that it considered the verdict "unjustified and highly partisan" because it was only agreed following a vote that saw Labour and the sole Liberal Democrat outvoting a Conservative bloc.
  • (7) In August, King and two other MPC members pushed for a bigger stimulus than the rest of the committee but were outvoted.
  • (8) But Murdoch's company adopted a more defensive tone in responding to the MPs' hostile description of its 81-year-old patriarch, noting that it considered the verdict "unjustified and highly partisan" because it was only agreed following a vote that saw five Labour MPs and the sole Liberal Democrat, Adrian Sanders, outvoting a Conservative bloc.
  • (9) Cameron's stop-Juncker campaign was further troubled when Merkel's anti-euro opponents, the AfD, were admitted to the Tory-led parliamentary grouping because the Conservatives were outvoted.
  • (10) There was talk of boycotts and threats to take the issue to court from the Czechs and Slovaks who were outvoted on Tuesday, while the EU’s most robust anti-immigration hardliner, Viktor Orban of Hungary, warned Chancellor Angela Merkel against any “moral imperialism” at the summit.
  • (11) The prime minister’s other key demands include giving non-eurozone members, such as the UK, protections to ensure they cannot be outvoted on the single market by eurozone members.
  • (12) Data passed to the Guardian shows that the Scottish Tories helped the Scottish National party outvote Labour in 40% of all the divisions during Salmond’s first term as first minister, from 2007 to 2011, when the SNP had a single-seat majority over Labour.
  • (13) The Czechs, Slovakians, Hungarians and Romanians are deeply indignant at being outvoted on one of the biggest, most toxic, issues in national politics in Europe.
  • (14) Markets were taken by surprise today when minutes of the latest meeting of the Bank's monetary policy committee showed that the governor, Mervyn King, had wanted to pump an extra £75bn into the financial system but was outvoted.
  • (15) But with 41% of shares held abroad and only 17% by pension funds, unseen forces outvote concerned shareholders at AGMs.
  • (16) Its Labour and Lib Dem members outvoted the Tories to include a line declaring Murdoch " not a fit and proper person" to run a major global company, and they have been squabbling ever since over who is to blame for their failure to come up with a conclusion upon which they could all agree.
  • (17) We are being outvoted ever more frequently,” Johnson wrote.
  • (18) The list, which is expected to be ratified before publication at a general meeting at 1.30pm on Friday, also called for: • An end to business and corporate block-votes in all council elections, which can be used to outvote local residents.
  • (19) In terms of pure equity, Mr Malone's company, Liberty Media, now holds 17% of News Corp, exceeding the Murdoch family's 14%, and if it chose to swap more of its stock for voting shares it could get to a point where it could outvote the Murdochs.
  • (20) Cue much handwaving by both Miles and Carney: It’s about this big..... 10.21am GMT Carney: outvoted over the output gap Carney then reveals that he would personally like to publish a measure of the output gap, but he couldn’t persuade the rest of the MPC.

Overvote


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To outvote; to outnumber in votes given.

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