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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

Regan says, in response, that because of “outdated governance rules,” unions representing one-third of the members were able to outvote the majority.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

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

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2018

While some of Jefferson’s supporters had once been antifederalists, they had accepted the Constitution’s framework, and determined not to overthrow their opponents but to outvote them.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Should he object to the nomination, he would at once obliterate the unswerving loyalty of Treves, and if this happened, Treves and Cologne, joining, would outvote him, and his objection would prove futile.

From The Sword Maker by Robert Barr

In other words, the majority outvotes the minority.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even if the Fed leader traditionally has played a big role in setting policy, he or she could still be outvoted by other members.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

Mitchell attempted to postpone the start date for the new agency, only to be outvoted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025

“You may have counties where there's a lot of attention right now, like Fulton County, where they most likely will be outvoted, because we understand what certification is,” she said.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2024

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 Frank Albert Fetter