She compares his resurrection to Jesus's, who Mulder outdoes "by staying in the grave for three months instead of simply three days".
As for the war historian mother, I tried to outdo her by stooping lower.
In the 1932 presidential campaign, Franklin D. Roosevelt vowed to outdo Herbert Hoover by balancing the budget.
Reversing his previous skepticism toward Mr. Obama's growing portfolio of foreign commitments, Mr. Romney now implied he would outdo him by advocating a more muscular foreign policy.
At TED in 2007, Dr Rosling managed to outdo himself by adding an astonishing theatrical twist to the end of his presentation.
Hours later, Palmer managed to outdo himself by announcing a second shock bid: this time to harness the latest technology and build Titanic II.
Sometimes a set will outdo itself by accident, such as a set that produced a sort of color due to a defective tube and a film of furniture polish on the screen.
Tanier, who covered six events for The Times in 24 hours last year, was aiming to outdo himself by sampling every event on the metropolitan area's Saturday calendar -- while blogging about it on nytimes.com.
Van Heemskerck's earliest works Ecce Homo and St . LukePainting the Portrait of the Virgin, both dated 1532 while adhering closely to the Romanist style of Scorel, seek to outdo it by dramatic lighting and illusionistic effects of plasticity.
Mr Wynn, meanwhile, bought the legendary Desert Inn casino, where he is living with his art while he plans his next move.Across the strip at the Venetian, a rival casino billionaire, Sheldon Adelson, respects Mr Wynn's vision so much that he is trying to outdo it, by importing art from the Guggenheim and Hermitage museums.
