outvote
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Eventually, Lennon organizes a meeting with Klein and he, Starr and Harrison outvote McCartney, who does not want Klein to manage the group.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2021
Thus, the small minority of the population that consisted of nobles and clerics could always outvote the majority of the population in this traditional system of voting.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Regan says, in response, that because of “outdated governance rules,” unions representing one-third of the members were able to outvote the majority.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2019
McCormack also agreed to hand over to each new director a quarter of his shares in Dulwich, empowering the trio to outvote him and, in general, steer the club around his worst instincts.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2018
If there were but one representative for the mass, his poor neighbors would outvote him by an hundred to one for that single representative.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
In other words, the majority outvotes the minority.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frankly, I had wanted to name him Willie, but I was outvoted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
They were outvoted, but departing Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged at the news conference that their position could command a majority as soon as June.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
"I voted against awarding a DD degree to Rev Poots but was outvoted," Prof Kirkpatrick said.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
He was outvoted 427-1 in the House, unanimously in the Senate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
The Antifederalist opponents of the Constitution made precisely these points, but they were outmaneuvered, outargued, and ultimately outvoted by a dedicated band of national advocates in nine of the state ratifying conventions.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
That was brought into focus this week when the RBA decided to raise interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.10%, with five of its board members outvoting four other officials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
But “when you look at the raw votes, we’re still outvoting them 3-to-1.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
The foundation had the right to receive preferred shares that allow it to block any deal, outvoting other shareholders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2015
Votes are weighted according to subscriptions in the bank's capital stock; big members have sometimes irritated national pride by outvoting the numerical majority.
From Time Magazine Archive
Classes A and B are elected by the member banks by a system of group and preferential voting designed to prevent the large banks from outvoting the smaller ones.
From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Fetter, Frank Albert
