outvote

How To Use outvote In A Sentence

• The Government bowed to the inevitable after other countries threatened to outvote it.
• They walked out in protest after being outvoted by the National Salvation Front majority.
• So district councillors, through the casting vote of the chairman, could outvote all other members.
• They walked out in protest after being outvoted by the National Salvation Front majority.
• Ministers on the council must answer to their national constituencies, but they can easily claim to have been outvoted in Brussels.
• Mr. Dodik argues that his first responsibility is to the people who elected him in Republika Srpska, who feel that any move to a centralized state threatens them because Bosnian Muslims will always have a majority to outvote them — the reason why the Dayton accord created such an unwieldy polity in the first place. Bosnian Serb Leader Damps Hopes of Post-Vote Accord
• Once it became possible for the minister to be outvoted, the national parliaments lost even this nominal, negative control over decisions.
• At any time when the Democrats had anywhere from 34 up through 67 Senators present and voting their way, the nominees could be confirmed, e.g., at 4 am tomorrow morning when 40 Democrats are around to outvote 18 Republicans. Matthew Yglesias » What if Bernanke Isn’t Reconfirmed
• They walked out in protest after being outvoted by the National Salvation Front majority.
• Most of the power stays with the member states, although their representatives can find themselves outvoted on a wider range of issues.