| If both ended up on the same committee, she would outrank him if there were an opening for chairman or ranking member. |
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| They did not make loud noises as they were very aware that I had a very high rank in the chain school and that they could never outrank me. |
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| When he asks you for an answer to a question, you almost feel as though you outrank him, he is so polite. |
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| In spite of this custom, the special exemptions from following suit still only extends to the trumps that outrank the king. |
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| I do not see that you would be able to patronise or outrank an independent person. |
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| The five card hand must outrank the two card hand or the player will automatically lose their bet due to a foul. |
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| I figure it's just my imagination, but then in another moment he lifts his hand, the one not holding his drink, and, as if I outrank him, gives me a salute. |
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| The system decouples age and seniority, allowing younger people to outrank and outearn their elders. |
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| So you outrank us on that standard, and we pay appropriate homage. |
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| Two months after the medal was announced, Mr Hagel scrapped it. Hawks were angry that the DWM was to outrank such battlefield medals as the Bronze Star or the Purple Heart. |
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| On some criteria, John Major and Alec Douglas-Home might outrank some of the scene-shifters and manipulators. Where then are we left in the prime ministerial government debate? |
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| Promising to outrank oil in economic importance to the province is potash. |
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| In the case of numerous States that outrank Québec, the percentages do not result from a natural progression, but rather from radical changes made to their electoral process and political system. |
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| In the Tongan social structure women outrank their male relatives. |
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| Although the rheumatic diseases are a minor cause of death, they far outrank every other chronic disease in frequency, and they are second only to nervous and mental disorders in the amount of disability they cause. |
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| Sea products outrank the products of the soil in a fishing community such as this, although in this case second choice is by no means second-rate. |
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| The papal or major basilicas outrank in precedence all other churches. |
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| In the Russian Orthodox tradition, metropolitans outrank archbishops. |
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