Sentence examples for as a relative outsider from inspiring English sources

Brand was viewed as a relative outsider to N.C.A.A. politics.

His appeal seems to stem from his status as a relative outsider, his prominent role in Miss Megawati's government notwithstanding.

Thompson says he was determined that his second play would utilise his position as a relative outsider to the "cushioned world of theatre".

My view as a relative outsider - although I was editor-in-chief of The Independent for 13 years, I was never invited to serve on the PCC, even though editors with less experience were - was that unless the public had confidence in the process of self-regulation, it was ultimately doomed as a concept.

Laverty, 31, arrived from the British Championship as a relative outsider but has impressed in his debut races.

But his status as a relative outsider on the island itself has also led to controversy.

Unfortunately, but entirely predictably, Thompson went to the BBC and Johnson named Andy Duncan, formerly of BBC marketing and Unilever and thus a relative outsider, as his replacement.

Using himself as an example, he said that a relative outsider had the advantage of not being part of the tradition of thinking that management was always right.

And in the presidential election due next year, all the obstacles that make it nigh-impossible for a relative outsider, such as Mohamed ElBaradei, a former head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, to compete, should be swept away.

His successor is Ray Ozzie, a relative outsider who joined when Microsoft bought his company in 2005.

A relative outsider to the parks department, Ms. White is not new to city government.