| I may be outvoted on that, but at least I will have had the chance to stand up for people who do not get a voice in the workplace. |
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| If you don't do something now, you're going to be outnumbered and outvoted in your own country. |
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| It seems unlikely that simply being outvoted would deflect them from their path. |
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| Once it became possible for the minister to be outvoted, the national parliaments lost even this nominal, negative control over decisions. |
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| He demurs, is outflanked and outvoted and finally gives grudging agreement to the match. |
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| Military and economic giants will not be outvoted or pushed around by hordes of pygmies. |
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| At party congresses, the revisionists, who argued for a reconciliation with the existing social order, were regularly outvoted. |
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| The meeting turned to farce as Conservatives staged a walkout, having been outvoted on their amendments to the budget. |
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| She, apparently, also has noticed that I am hopelessly outnumbered and outvoted. |
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| Students often feel that their voice really doesn't matter and that they'll be outvoted in matters of municipal politics anyway. |
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| Most of the power stays with the member states, although their representatives can find themselves outvoted on a wider range of issues. |
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| Ministers on the council must answer to their national constituencies, but they can easily claim to have been outvoted in Brussels. |
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| In fact, though the proposal to award him the degree was challenged, when the dons voted, the placets outvoted the non-placets. |
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| Mr Carney will have less sway over monetary policy than he did in Canada Sir Mervyn has been outvoted several times on interest-rate decisions. |
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| That prevents any scrutiny by the national parliaments, whose decisions can, of course, be outvoted by the respective majorities in the Council. |
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| As you will have seen, those who sometimes regard themselves as such are subsequently outvoted here in plenary. |
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| While this arrangement in theory meant that he could be outvoted on a policy issue, in practice this situation never arose. |
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| On most decision-making bodies there is parity, for nobody likes being outvoted by their neighbour. |
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| Germany argued that despite its 80 million population it could be easily outvoted by the 54 votes of Poland and Spain, whose combined population is also 80 million. |
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| The committee Democrats were simply outvoted on the rules change. |
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| For the Democrats, being outvoted means they are living in a police state. |
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| I cannot, however, say that of Amendment 10, on which the committee outvoted me and adopted a form of words that supports the production of new embryonic stem cell lines and research on embryos themselves. |
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| The 'Social Chapter' does not constitute a blank cheque for a heavy legislative agenda, which would see the UK outvoted and forced into legislative rigidities to which it is opposed. |
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| Among the difficulties, the USA's absence from the UNHRC has left the EU with a greater burden of responsibility but the EU Member States are often outvoted by the African and Asian regional groups. |
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| I won't prolong this, because I know we're going to be outvoted, but I want my colleagues across the way to know that as an ally on this bill, I'm offended by the way this has been done. |
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| One or even several countries can be outvoted, but the Polish public is opposed to a reform of this kind, and objects to being constantly cheated. |
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| In one Tajik province, women outvoted men 58 percent to 41 percent. |
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| I think we'll potentially be outvoted on this. |
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| However, Kosovo Serbs did not see any merit in participating in the Kosovo Assembly plenary meetings, given that in that venue all minority proposals were consistently outvoted by the majority. |
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| While only the majority opinion is considered precedential, an outvoted judge can still publish a dissenting opinion. |
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| These members also emphasize that the smaller and medium sized Member States do not act as a block and that there is little if any prospect of Governments representing a majority of the Union's citizens being outvoted. |
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| That was a considerable achievement when we consider what a sensitive issue it addressed, coupled with the fact that the EU can now be easily outvoted in the Human Rights Council. |
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| It is of additional concern that the Bosniak parties outvoted their Croat counterparts, both in the Government and in the parliament, to approve the increase in payments to veterans. |
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| From the perspective of the United States, it developed because, in the mid-1980s, the United States was repeatedly and overwhelmingly outvoted in the Fifth Committee on important budget questions. |
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| The Riel case had painfully brought home the fact that Canadiens remained a minority in all Canada, to be outweighed and outvoted on the deepest issues. |
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| Indeed the mayor could be outvoted by two thirds of this cabinet. |
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| Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, boneless fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors. |
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| On both occasions they were outvoted after the other committee members said there was insufficient evidence of inflationary pressures to justify an immediate increase. |
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