Sentence examples for has to outdo from inspiring English sources

Now, though, every group has to outdo what has gone before; and each exploit by a group has to outdo what it did before.

Call of Duty is a series built around spectacle and with every new release we sense that the spectacle has to outdo the previous game's efforts.

But that means that to avoid disappointing fans, Nolan has to outdo himself and somehow top not one, but two of the greatest movies ever made.

But in my head it's like, oh God, we have to outdo that, again.

Stanley Crouch, who was Ellison's friend, has backed this up: Ellison was convinced he had to outdo himself, and outdo Melville, too.

IN the past, when an automaker wanted to distinguish itself, it simply had to show up its competitors: Ford had to beat Chevy, BMW had to outdo Mercedes, Morgan had to.

"I'm not sure what I'm going to do next summer," he said, "but I think I'm going to have to outdo myself".

But we recognise that his positions have evolved as the campaign has moved from the primary stage, where politicians have to outdo each other in their appeal to their party faithful, to the general election.

And it has placed Ms. Rowling, already the golden goose of publishing, in the dicey position of having to outdo herself with a sequel written under huge commercial pressure at twice the length of any of her previous books.

On the other hand, there's the pressure of having to outdo oneself every time, and it feels as if Muse are reaching the point where there's nowhere left to go.

Hussain and Atherton vied with each other to describe his effortless display: "You have to outdo my 'calmness' with your 'serenity'," said Hussain as the gentle sparring continued between two old batsmen who were not exactly renowned for their aggressive intent back in the day.