Some players allow "royal pontoons" - the decidedly unregal hand of three sevens, which beats even a pontoon.
A nurse who coordinates organ donation must diplomatically set in motion a medically and morally complicated process that will convey Simon's heart, which beats even after his brain has died, into someone else's body.
An exception to the general rule that banks are expensive: a Bank of America account called Merrill Edge, which beats even the discounters on trading commissions.
I used to reread George Eliot's "Middlemarch" to be astonished by the complexities of virtue, which beat in difficulty even the windings of malice.
Yesterday, Qualcomm reported its earnings, which beat analyst expectations even as the company's profits dropped 90percentt year-over-year.
That is, in part, because only 30% of Americans think porn is morally acceptable (according to a recent Gallup poll; the death penalty is more than two times as popular, which beats out even premarital sex by five points).
The category's nearest equivalent to a Pearl S Buck is The Will Rogers Follies, which beat Miss Saigon, possibly because, even by 1991, not all US theatre-prize voters were quite ready for a musical about the Vietnam war.
Wales has won one of its three games and is even with Italy, which beat Scotland, 16-12, in Rome on Saturday.
BHP Billiton showed why it is the granddaddy of the mining world with its latest results, which beat many analyst expectations and surpassed even its most successful competitors.
Yes, even mighty Goldman Sachs, which beat expectations for fiscal fourth-quarter earnings, says deal making and capital markets activities will be slower in the near term, as banks try to wiggle out of their problems in the debt markets.
