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"It's crucial that Britain's interests on financial services, on the single market, on competition are protected, that we're not out-voted by the euro zone, that there is not an in-built euro-zone caucus in the system," Mr. Osborne said.
Support Grows for New EU Treaty to Boost Fiscal Ties in Euro Zone Ainsley Thomson 2011
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Latinas, like white, black, and Asian women have out-voted their male counterparts for 30 years.
Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto: Latina Moms in the 2012 Election Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto 2012
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Latinas, like white, black, and Asian women have out-voted their male counterparts for 30 years.
Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto: Latina Moms in the 2012 Election Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto 2012
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People like Yarborough need to be overruled and out-voted by members of the council who still have functioning brains and a sense of right and wrong – giving him public time to put on this kind of show legitimizes him and his ilk.
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But suppose that the out-voted minority is necessarily always a minority?
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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One member of the committee who was out-voted on the final guidelines publicly castigated NICE and accused the committee of misusing statistics, failing to involve the proper specialists, and seeking mainly to decrease costs.
In Defense of Physician Autonomy Saul Greenfield 2010
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It will only get worse with time as the modern, urban, European minded Turks whose world view is largely Western and Secular as ours is, are being out-bred and out-voted by the retrograde, rural, and Islamist Ottomans.
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Women have out-voted men in every election since 1964.
Obama Campaign Memo: "Does McCain Have A Woman Problem?" 2009
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As one-half of a couple, each person is matched by one other, so neither can be out-voted.
Robert Fuller: Why Marriage Matters (to Straights and Gays Alike) 2009
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I was on the street and headed to the David Cone no-hitter but my dad and my brother Chris out-voted me and my brother David because they were in no mood to sit in the drizzling rain.
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