In North America, it is outstripped by Apple and Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry.
But in the death penalty stakes it is outstripped by Iran, which executed more than three times as many people in 2014 and uses similar arguments to those justifying Nimr's execution.
Although the overall budget for social care in England rose fractionally last year from £13.65bn to £13.82bn, it was outstripped by the cost of demographic changes that have seen the number of people needing help grow, and the £600m cost of introducing the "national living wage".
While no figures for the game have been released, the game was the company's most successful project, until it was outstripped by Back to the Future: The Game, which was released a year and a half later.
For years, Google maintained a wall of silence worthy of a government security agency on how much electricity the company used — a silence that experts speculated was used to cloak how quickly it was outstripping the competition in the scale and efficiency of its data centers.
It was Outstrip's third win in five lifetime races.
They engaged in a spirited duel, but it was Outstrip with a clear path and a strong kick that flew by on the outside.
Water has not become so scarce that it has been outstripped by demand.
Deathly Hallows, at the time it was the fastest-selling book - it's now been outstripped by Fifty Shades of Grey - but people around you say, "it's a cert, blah, blah, blah," but it's not.
But it's possible they are outstripped by the muscles that kept a suggestive smile plastered on her face for much of "In the Trail of the Ghawazee," the 90-minute show she performed with the Gypsy Musicians of Upper Egypt at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday.
