| But the whole thing was such a cynical mix of half-truths, untruths and twisted logic that it ended up besting me. |
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| The delight he takes in besting his father at ping pong suggests that even he has not been immune to the old man's poison. |
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| But they keep coming back because the only way to earn a reputation is by besting him. |
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| Neither group forms a monolithic bloc, of course, but women are besting men in registering and voting. |
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| With natural gas prices so low due to huge new supplies of shale gas, besting the current energy system has become tougher. |
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| He takes understandable pleasure in besting his brother on the polo field and on the ski slopes. |
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| Still, besting the opposition Democratic Party of Japan and its uncharismatic leader, Naoto Kan, is practically beside the point. |
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| He sang, he danced and read scenes of Max and Franz, eventually besting more than a dozen other hopefuls to become a swing. |
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| After besting the cream of the MLS crop in a remarkable run to their first title, Kreis's coaching theory looks like a stroke of genius. |
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| They handed King's their first defeat of the season, besting them by 4 last week. |
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| You are a poncho-wearing Clint Eastwood clone who scurries about, taking cover behind a wagon or boulder, besting bad guys with your six-shooter or rifle. |
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| There were times when even he had trouble besting her in duels. |
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| One of the most effective ways of besting an opponent in an argument is to show that the very argument he makes leads to a conclusion he is anxious to deny. |
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| The Ochapowace First Nation achieved a score of 77.2 per cent, besting a total of 78 Prairie First Nations that participated in the study. |
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| In it, droids are inevitable, robots will be commonplace and humans will become cyborg-like with internal robots besting our genetic heritage with engineered biotechnology. |
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| By besting an overrated Duke, little-respected Lehigh showed that quantitative methods can indeed identify teams that are stronger or weaker than their seeds would indicate. |
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| Viewed from a distance, the JAR sapphire earclips might be a pair of especially gaudy Christmas baubles, while legend has it that the ping-pong diamond rings were Taylor's reward for besting Burton in a game of table-tennis. |
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| PolyCase's 74-grain Inceptor ARX scorched past the chronograph at 1,416 fps, besting the other two loads by an average of 373 fps. |
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| Still others can know the feeling of besting this tough fighting fish on fly. |
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| The Massaro Ballistic Laboratories 140-grain Homady boattail, my handload bullet, printed five-shot groups besting at. |
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| In foreign policy he is best known for battling and besting Russia. |
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