For too long, the moral and self-interested case against arms exports has been trumped by the apparently invincible economic case. |
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Fear of litigation, an admittedly necessary concern, trumped a bishop's duty to his priests and to his flock. |
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For some the right to a fair trial is trumped by rubber-necking, political opportunism and puerile attention seeking. |
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If someone had set about devising a system to kill off the market in non-executive directors, they couldn't have trumped this effort. |
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If a plain suit lead has been trumped, it is illegal to undertrump unless by doing so one creates a K-Q or K-Q-J combination in the trick. |
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Players must follow suit, except that a non-trump lead may be trumped even if you have a card of the suit led. |
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In 1950 the US government withdrew his passport on a trumped up pretext, effectively confining him to internal exile. |
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Bradford has trumped Los Angeles in the race to mount a major photographic exhibition. |
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They have been calling for free trade zones to be established in Kurdish border regions but security issues seem to have trumped the idea. |
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The Southern judiciary countered the argument of natural law by evoking the argument that, within a democracy, positive law trumped natural law. |
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He was subsequently sentenced to 15 years in jail over corruption and sodomy charges that he claims were trumped up. |
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A White House spokesman denied the nomination was lost and said the accusations had been trumped up by opponents of the president. |
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He is serving a 15-year jail term for corruption and sodomy, charges he claims were trumped up to end his political career. |
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He has claimed the charges were trumped up to prevent him from challenging the former Prime Minister. |
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He has denied all charges, which he claims were trumped up to end his political career. |
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But last night his wife said through friends that the charge had been trumped up by the interim regime. |
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He had maintained that the charges were trumped up by the man and his cronies to prevent him from challenging the prime minister's rule. |
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Since then he has done everything possible to politically destroy his opponent and blacken his name through a series of trumped up charges. |
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In England, the utilitarian doctrine of a higher public good trumped the idea of intellectual property rooted in natural right. |
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With hindsight, we know how his moral instinct trumped the evidence for the war and its legality. |
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He simply trumped it six days later with his incontestably magnificent fifth symphony. |
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She'd had this disagreement many times with Andy, and he'd always trumped her with what he called her pretensions to commonness. |
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In that case, community of interest could be said to have trumped the principle of population equality of the districts. |
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In the end, Shay, dressed in a sundress, trumped Hoff, who was dressed in a business suit. |
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As morning broke in the windowless Bedsit, Emma peered wearily out of the bed they'd shared as Michelle trumped loudly and proudly into the already stale air. |
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You cannot braggingly proclaim that your tyranny has trumped me. |
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The DOJ disagrees, saying that these are existing procedures in place that are not trumped by the Farm Bill. |
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No issue better captures the dysfunction of Washington than the trumped up debate over the Keystone XL pipeline. |
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She puts such power on the tennis ball, and she trumped Sharapova because of her sound movement. |
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The gloveless intervals are shorter — the cognitive distraction of an activity is trumped by the extreme cold. |
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A boy of 11 has been suspended from school for making a lewd gesture at a teacher, and she thinks the whole affair has been trumped up by kids who don't like him. |
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This has resulted in the use of trumped up charges ranging from terrorism, subversion and hooliganism to fraud, defamation and tax evasion. |
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The answer was to ensure that individual liberty was not trumped by religion or government or corporations. |
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Arguments rooted in abstract principle are increasingly trumped by fuzzier appeals to empathy and fairness. |
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In the end Cameron did not fulfil his predicted promise, and was narrowly trumped by Miliband who showed more conviction. |
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The interests of ordinary citizens have been trumped by the interest of ensuring higher corporate profits. |
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Nevertheless, this type of advantage is not an enduring one and can be easily trumped. |
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The fourth to play after a non-trump card has been trumped by his partner, when unable to either follow suit or overtrump, must undertrump even if his partner holds the trick. |
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Supporters said the charges against the activists were trumped up. |
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But there was nothing Robby could do to help in his own defense, since the charges were trumped up and the only witnesses had been blackmailed to lie. |
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Such disdain is trumped only by the sempiternal public contempt for Congress and car salesmen. |
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Kaufman has trumped this by going for an unpronounceable abstract noun denoting a classical rhetorical device. |
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But the question is: How long before the Liberal Party uses that trumped up question to fill its war chest? |
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But when West trumped, South overtrumped in the dummy, played a spade to his ace and continued with top hearts. |
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This new wall tells us that, once again, the rule of force has trumped the rule of law and the rule of reason. |
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He learned that uniformity would always be trumped by initiative, and that a man who does not think for himself does not live long to think at all. |
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In the his presidency, geopolitics trumped economic politics. |
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I think it was trumped up, but I can't tell you who forged it. |
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Their families had always insisted that the charges were trumped up. |
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Bertukan Mideksa was put in prison by the Ethiopian authorities at Christmastime under trumped up charges. |
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Further, his support obligations trumped personal expenses associated with smoking, drinking, and driving a new vehicle. |
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Think back to Strauss being castled by Warne and England being trumped yet again. |
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Leading international human rights groups accused Hanoi of applying trumped up charges to silence political speech. |
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Perhaps a culture of excessive partisanship has trumped ethical values. |
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Two magnificent films by Zhang Yimou, Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern – which helped put modern Chinese cinema on the map – were trumped by since-forgotten Swiss and Italian titles in 1991 and 1992 respectively. |
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That is what spawned the question about whether this was an issue where economic priorities trumped environmental priorities, and it is very troubling to me. |
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Their choices can therefore be trumped by events. |
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Progress has been stalled by political interests that have trumped public interests, compounded by conflicts between the state's security sector elites. |
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There are a number of non-Québec decisions that were rendered before the Supreme Court of Canada's decisions in Dell and Rogers in which courts held in effect that a class action trumped an arbitration clause. |
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In many cases, individuals are the victims of trumped up charges. |
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Amnesty International has urged the Azerbaijani authorities to free a journalist jailed on trumped up charges of terrorism and defamation after the European Court of Human Rights ruled he had been wrongfully imprisoned. |
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In October 2007 he was sentenced to five years in prison on trumped up charges of endangering Iran's national security and criticising the regime. |
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Members of the Guatemalan congress reported pressure to change their votes, under fear that those in political power can bring trumped up charges and influence a politically pliable Supreme Court to remove their immunity. |
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He was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison on trumped up charges of terrorism, defamation, incitement to racial hatred and tax evasion, all of which were quashed by the European Court in April. |
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The sole good thing about the morning's shittery was that Mom's concern for my wellbeing trumped last night's argument. |
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In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues. |
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And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed. |
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This will provide a defense to any argument that the employment policies created an implied contract that trumped at-will employment. |
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Even in the cemeteries, however, sectionalism trumped mourning. |
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Executive orders, they said, are trumped by federal law and certain court rulings suggest the executive order would have no real teeth. |
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As Ms. Passlof told The Times, for more than 40 years there had been three of them in the marriage — he, she and art — and by mutual agreement the demands of art often trumped those of connubiality. |
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Then, as now, ancestry trumped lived experience. |
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With Basnett's help, he managed to prevent the unions continuing their path towards isolation when they threatened to withdraw from tripartite bodies, a move which Thatcher later trumped by scrapping many of them. |
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He'd conquered the highest landmass on Earth, raised thousands for Comic Relief – and he'd trumped the other 145 climbers with him by making the world's first live videocast into a smartphone on the top of the world. |
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A serially underachieving economy, repeatedly trumped by dynamic Brazil? |
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Efficient economic management trumped humanitarianism. |
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The idealism that provoked the liberating thrust of 1992 has now been trumped by a certain cynicism-reflecting a disappointed idealism-now threatening to suffocate every major conference on the environment. |
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The country you live in, the parliamentary democracy that ruled it, for good or bad, has been trumped by a plebiscite of dubious purpose and unacknowledged status. |
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It really does make a nonsense of the much trumped knife amnesty which resulted in trayfuls of weapons of all shapes and sizes being displayed in local police stations. |
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Military expediency trumped aristocratic privilege when it came to securing the Empire and a series of professional military emperors followed as a result. |
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They asserted that Henry's claim to the lands trumped hers because of the custom of gavelkind, an ancient form of land tenure that still survived mainly in Kent. |
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