Sentence examples for outsider before from inspiring English sources

Blake was a 20-1 outsider before the event, with the Birmingham-born singer-songwriter Laura Mvula the runaway favourite.

And since the SEC introduced regulation fair disclosure (FD) in 2000, prohibiting firms from disclosing material information to one outsider before the market as a whole, the main source of competitive advantage for analysts—namely, access to privileged information through meetings with the companies' managers—has supposedly been destroyed.

The Ahn effect has done wonders for Mr Park's chances: a rank outsider before the endorsement, he is now the front-runner, according to a poll conducted by the newspaper Seoul Shinmun.Quite possibly, Mr Ahn has his eyes on a bigger prize.

It's easy to forget that the establishment similarly disliked Reagan, whom they viewed as an outsider, before he became a Republican hero.

The outsider before Deasy was retired Navy Vice Admiral David Brewer, who was fired midway through his four-year contract because he never managed to get beyond declaring himself "a champion for the children, teachers and staff" — all of whom floundered under his regime.

Bookmakers generally made Japan 50-1 outsiders before the match.

Rated by the bookmakers as 1,000-1 outsiders before their warm-up victory over England, Italy are certainly the World Cup's surprise package.

England's preparations for their World Cup opener against Australia next Saturday were dealt a major blow following a humiliating defeat to Italy, priced at 1,000-1 toutsiders outsiders before this remarkable result.

England's preparations took a severe hit following a miserable display at Salford on Saturday when they were beaten 15-14 by Italy, ranked by the bookmakers as 1,000-1 toutsiders outsiders before the match.

There is no shortage of pulse and finesse in that vision; "Drive" marks the first occasion on which Refn has shot a film in America, and, like countless outsiders before him, he casts an eye that is at once entranced and stunned.

Rank outsiders before the event, the young, strong and ambitious Chinese team, none of whose members is currently rated even in the top 50, had somehow coalesced into a unit hugely stronger than the sum of its parts; and in the first seven rounds swept away all before it.