"But really, he only beat out a tomato".
They got men behind the ball and defended for their lives and although £8m summer signing Jordan Rhodes did not add to his 20 goals, his header allowed Martin Olsson to power in a shot that Wojciech Szczesny could only beat out to Colin Kazim-Richards, the former Arsenal schoolboy scoring with a shot that looped in off the post.
Next up was the PS3, but it only beat out the Xbox 360 by a very small margin.
Maduro only just beat out Capriles in the 2013 election, and it is widely thought that if either Capriles or López were allowed on the ballot they would have trounced Maduro.
Per Mertesacker produced a header from Özil's cross that Howard did extremely well to reach, let alone beat out, only for his clearance to find an unmarked Müller waiting on the edge of the area to thump a shot unstoppably past the goalkeeper for his fourth goal of the tournament.
Fletcher's film just beat out the only other new movie to make the top 10 this week, star-studded crime thriller Triple 9. John Hillcoat's film, the tale of a team of bank robbers entangled with the Russian mafia, scored $6.1m on debut in sixth.
Nevertheless, he not only beats out Gehry (65 hits), actor Johnny Depp (44) and conductor and composer Andre Previn (24), but totally trounces Jonathan Franzen, author of the critically acclaimed novel "The Corrections," who scored a mere 15 hits--even fewer than bodice-ripping publicity pawn Justin Timberlake (31).
Last week, the show grossed only $286,148, beating out just one other musical, "The Rocky Horror Show," which is in previews in a much smaller house.
If the Mayor's epic farewell-to-the Senate news conference set a new standard for weirdness in New York politics, it was only by beating out his farewell-to-Donna news conference, nine days earlier.
It was a clash of civic titans — London, Paris, New York, Madrid and Moscow and New Yorkrk came in fourth, beating out only Moscow.
