outvote

Example Sentences

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They wouldn’t have been able to outvote the majority.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2022

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

Madison argues that the nation would be able to deal with minoritarian factions—the majority can just outvote them.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2018

Prince Bülow's "safe Parliamentary majority" means, of course, a majority sufficient to outvote the Social Democrats, with whom every German Government has to reckon as a permanent opposition.

From The War and Democracy by