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But for the time being, self-interest has trumped efforts to clean up company law.

The bank's failure to do enough to fight deflation, the across-the-board fall in prices, profits and wages that has sapped the strength from Japan's economy since the late 1990s, has trumped all other efforts by Japan to grow, he said.

Politics has trumped economics.

But politics has trumped prudence.

But austerity has trumped rivalry.

Competition has trumped value-creation.

NEW DELHI — Having trumped a government effort to defuse his anticorruption movement, the protest leader Anna Hazare announced that he would leave a city jail on Friday and begin a mass demonstration and hunger strike at a public ground in the national capital.

In western capitals counter-terrorism efforts have trumped all other aspects of the crisis.

What has Trump done right?

Researchers studied a variety of sources – including the censuses of 1841 1911, records of births, marriages, probates and baptisms, apprentice contracts, ship passenger lists and newspaper announcements – and concluded that, down the generations, the "iron law" of inheritance had consistently trumped all efforts to improve social mobility in England and Wales.

Had Trump put even half the effort into infrastructure that Obama did, he might be in a position to take advantage of that Democratic cooperation ― and pass a bill that would not only be popular, but might also be good for the economy.