outvote
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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
In turn, voting was done by estate, not by proportional representation, with the first and second estates generally joining together to outvote the third.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
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
“It’s rotten, but you can’t do anything unless you outvote Hiram.”
From Baseball Joe on the School Nine or, Pitching for the Blue Banner by Lester Chadwick
In other words, the majority outvotes the minority.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He was outvoted 427-1 in the House, unanimously in the Senate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
The other five Dodgers finalists — second baseman Tommy Edman, shortstop Mookie Betts, third baseman Max Muncy and outfielders Teoscar Hernández and Andy Pages — were outvoted and won’t start.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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
But when it came to a decision, I was often outvoted.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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
