Sentence examples for have beat out from inspiring English sources

Other days on Nickelodeon the Baha Men have beat out Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, Aaron Carter and other teenage idols.

The Bank of New York's bid appears to have beat out competing offers from Bear Stearns, Automatic Data Processing Inc. and Fidelity Investments, the Boston-based mutual fund company.

Giants General Manager Ernie Accorsi conceded that Holmes had an equal chance to make the team, but added, "If he wins the job, he will have beat out a heck of a kicker".

Citigroup and its partners appear to have beat out a group of investors led by the French banking giant Société Générale, which was also bidding to acquire a stake.

Hopeful signs for women: Our fifth annual ranking showcases women who have beat out men for top posts this year, including Lynn Laverty Elsenhans (No. 39), the new chief of Sunoco ; Gail Kelly (No. 11), who heads Australian bank Westpac; and Jane Mendillo (No. 42), who was just named to run the $35 billion Harvard University endowment.

Hamp Lindsay and his sister Carole Lindsay Miller, who own Wade's, were tickled pink to have beat out Paula Deen.

"Invisible Man" had beat out Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" to win the 1953 National Book Award.

In the three episodes of "The Apprentice" that have been broadcast, the women's team has beat out the men's three times.

They were there for the prom they never had — at least, not unless they graduated from high school in the late 1980s or early '90s and had beat out the jocks and the cheerleaders for control of the party-planning committee.

Over two years, X5 will convert the Kopeika stores to its Pyaterochka brand, the company said in a statement that also obliquely noted that it had beat out Wal-Mart in the acquisition.

While the PGP expects to eventually enroll 100,000 subjects, Dr Church is already dreaming much bigger: "We're constructing it a little like Wikipedia, which has beat out all the proprietary closed systems.