Sentence examples for attempt to outwit from inspiring English sources

Osborne has an unearned reputation for tactical genius, but his attempt to outwit the opposition may yet be his undoing.

He knows, too, that the orthodox economics that he was trained in dismisses any attempt to outwit the invisible hand by meddling in rates of pre-tax wages.

So not only does Trapattoni possess little quality to attempt to outwit opponents in an open game of football, he would also be going down a route which has few, if any, notable recent success stories.

On Wednesday night in Amsterdam, Jorge Jesus will attempt to outwit Chelsea's Rafael Benítez as Portugal's most glamorous club strive to win their first European prize for 51 years.

If Nolan's success has in large part depended on an audience of little Nolans, notepads out, faces scrunched up as they attempt to outwit the master from the front row, the film-maker found himself, as he approached the release of Interstellar, in the unusual position of pivoting towards encouraging a more limbic, left-brained response to his work.

In an attempt to outwit Tung, Đính claimed fresh troops were needed, opining, "If we move reserves into the city, the Americans will be angry.

His other attempts to outwit Siri: Me: "I have a flat tire".

In the movie's most amusing sequence, Cross attempts to outwit a missile by using a hungry wolf as a warm-bodied lure.

And yet these two thinly sketched lovers, and their attempts to outwit Kitri's father, Lorenzo, and her wealthy suitor, Gamache, make a feeble narrative engine.

I couldn't match his physical strength but when I became a teenager I attempted to outwit him verbally: playing devil's advocate or putting forward the counter-argument to whatever he was shouting about".

This show is one of his best: sly, witty and inventive, it tells the story of hero Richard Hannay's attempts to outwit foreign spies with little more than a stiff upper lip at his disposal.