outfaced

We had penetrated the multiple rings of security, bypassed the private Monterrey rent-a-cops, outfaced the bureaucracy of the International Olympic Committee and stood our ground to deliver information that the mayor, Pat Ryan, the 2016

Tom Tresser: What Happened in Copenhagen (When We Went to Influence the IOC -- Again) 2009

It may even be that the fund's managers outfaced a team led by Warren Buffett, America's smartest investor (and a board member of NEWSWEEK's parent, The Washington Post Company) and risked setting off a worldwide financial meltdown to get a better deal than a cut-rate Buffett offer that would have ousted them.

What Goes Around 2008

Not to be outfaced is the involvement of the Catholic Church in the scandal, that eventually resulted in the exchange of ginger shots between a popular running priest and a bishop in Nueva Ecija over ABS-CBN's early Friday morning program hosted by Mr. Anthony Taberna.

NBN-ZTE scandal creates mixed emotions 2008

Even more, this anthology proves that people and poets across America have, like Thoreau, refused to be outfaced by irrational things.

Senor Salsa 2007

He, who had never backed away from a challenge, who had outfaced kings of industry and princes of wealth, had flinched from a confrontation with a mere girl.

Mistress For A Weekend Napier, Susan 2006

Pedro denied and outfaced him, and was afterwards hostile to him.

The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

By the time Missy was 6 months I knew I was outfaced and took her to a trainer, who said euphemistically "That's a lotta dog" as she climbed — with some success — a fir tree in his yard to get at a squirrel.

Jim Harrison: The Life of a Sportsman and the Lives of his Dogs 2004

He, who had never backed away from a challenge, who had outfaced kings of industry and princes of wealth, had flinched from a confrontation with a mere girl.

Mistress for a Weekend Napier, Susan 2006

The reproach was merited, and not easy to be outfaced.

New Grub Street 2003

The same doling of cabbage and bacon that had outfaced him at dinner.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002