Sentence examples for defeating more from inspiring English sources

Is Jay Z's performance-art piece, Picasso Baby, going to win the best music video award, defeating more traditional nominees?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has fought her way to the final heat of the £30,000 Orange award, defeating more than a dozen highly tipped and experienced authors.

Garibaldi was faced with the problem of defeating more than 20,000 Neapolitan troops of the Bourbon king Francis II in Sicily with an untrained force armed only with rusty rifles.

The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and Clarifications column, Friday April 30 2004 The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and Clarifications column, Wednesday April 28 2004 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has fought her way to the final heat of the £30,000 Orange award, defeating more than a dozen highly tipped and experienced authors.

After evading traps and defeating more enemies, including the Kraken, Kratos encounters an unseen foe, revealed to be a loyal Spartan soldier also in search of the Sisters.

Coaches also rank teams they defeated more favorably, thereby making their own team look better.

Both men defeated more established figures (David Davis, David Miliband) to become the leaders of their parties.

Nor does any other sport require you to defeat more than 5,600 other competitors to win.

Both are 39, representing a generational shift, and defeated more moderate opponents.

In 1997, he defeated more than 300 competitors to take home a $1.1 million pot.

Jesse Jackson Jr. was already a sensation: at just 30, he had defeated more established politicians for a Congressional seat.