Sentence examples for Trumped from inspiring English sources
That was in time trumped by Respublica's DevoManc project, which the Greater Manchester Combined Authority commissioned, and had a contented seal of approval from the most powerful figures in the city region, the Labour leader of Manchester City Council, Sir Richard Leese, and his head of civil service, Sir Howard Bernstein.
Two magnificent films by Zhang Yimou, Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern – which helped put modern Chinese cinema on the map – were trumped by since-forgotten Swiss and Italian titles in 1991 and 1992 respectively.
On investigation, the rules of the republic turned out to be diktats like: 'you have to pay to get in', 'don't sell drugs or you'll be thrown in prison by the private security' and 'don't pee in the sea', so it was obvious the whole 'rave republic' thing was just a bunch of corny nonsense trumped up to make the whole thing, and him, look more important than it was.
With Basnett's help, he managed to prevent the unions continuing their path towards isolation when they threatened to withdraw from tripartite bodies, a move which Thatcher later trumped by scrapping many of them.
In the end Cameron did not fulfil his predicted promise, and was narrowly trumped by Miliband who showed more conviction.
The Liberal Democrats achieved better value for money at just 28p per vote, but all parties were trumped by Dr Richard Taylor's Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern, which spent no money but still managed to get Dr Taylor elected to parliament.
Many journalists are in jail on trumped-up charges.
Authorities in Belarus are threatening to take into custody the three-year-old son of a journalist who has been under arrest since 19 December on what are regarded as trumped-up charges.
Employers have also be known to file trumped-up charges of theft against workers who have fled.
British Council offices in St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg defied an order yesterday to close down on the trumped-up charge of tax violations.
But he roused Putin's ire by refusing to stay out of politics and served 10 years in jail in what were widely seen as trumped-up charges.
