| Over the years, I have seen him tested thrice, and thrice has he been bested by this simple and inexpensive item. |
| But this crabbed, Hobbesian spirit of social Darwinism has been bested before, and we can overcome it again. |
| In opposition, he took the scalps of many ministers and in government he was rarely bested. |
| They did not like being bested, but it was precisely his obstinate redamancy that kept them going in all its forms. |
| This rests on the bizarre idea that he was bested by his old sparring partner. |
| The Soviet Union then fielded a huge army that had bested the Wehrmacht and was fully capable of gobbling up large chunks of Western Europe. |
