She is "one of the rare examples of a female protagonist in pulp adventure stories," Mr. Penzler notes, and is indeed quite a girl, capable of swimming naked from a wrecked ship and outwitting and outfighting her father's dastardly enemies. ❋ Allan Massie (2011)
In this he threw away half his chance of winning, but he knew if he was to win at all it was with the outfighting that remained to him. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The big question now is, do the 49ers have a QB on their roster — Shaun Hill, Alex Smith or Damon Huard — who can take advantage of Crabtree's skills, which include awesome run-after-catch ability and a penchant for outfighting defensive backs for most balls. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Sixty-seven per cent of the Iraqi population lives in urban areas and much of the conflict of the past six years has been focused within cities, in contrast to the rural outfighting in Afghanistan. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Am I missing something, or did she successfully push through a national program after her health plan failed due to secrecy, infighting and outfighting and inability to have various group meet and reach a consensus and change how health care is delivered for the people! ❋ Unknown (2008)
Sharpe is a "Johnny Jump-up," a person with no family, no background, no breeding who keeps getting promoted over the heads of his betters doing the unforgiveable---outfighting them. ❋ Unknown (2005)
At Austerlitz, the greatest of all the Emperor's victories so far, Marshal Soult had covered himself with glory, far outfighting Marshal Bernadotte who, nevertheless, was now Prince of Ponte Corvo. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
He won as much by intimidating the enemy as by outfighting them. ❋ Turtledove, Harry (2002)
As for outrunning or outfighting you—even given your engines and armaments, we might have a surprise or so for you. ❋ Diane Duane (1993)
After a shaky opening, Napoleon demonstrated all his old talents at both the strategical and tactical levels, and ended by outmaneuvering and outfighting two superior opponents. ❋ DAVID G. CHANDLER (1966)
One suspects that this accident of geography has made the Afghans very good at outlasting and outfighting, or both, invaders from many parts of the globe. ❋ Jon Carroll (2011)
As a character, Bayonetta is completely self-absorbed, and her dialogue is comprised only of thoughtless irrelevancies; she out-glamorizes runway models with her impossibly leggy figure while outfighting everybody, including angels as big as buildings. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But Danny Ainge sent the Celtics into the locker room on the proper note, outfighting Griffith on a long lead pass and deflecting the ball over his shoulder to a streaking Rick Robey for a buzzer-beating dunk that restored the ❋ Unknown (2009)
The emphasis here was also very supersized (a worldwide uprising to be countered), but its main emphasis reflected the desire to change technique in Iraq: from outfighting to outgoverning the enemy, from killing their way out of an insurgency to protecting and fostering the population. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Duran was a picture of almost uncontained violence, pressuring and outfighting the game Scotsman before a low blow at the bell ending round 13 punctured Buchanan's title reign (and other sensitive areas). ❋ Unknown (2009)
For at least 90 minutes they could bask in the intense satisfaction of their club, paupers by comparison with their affluent opponents, outfighting and outplaying players expected to make a surge for promotion to the Premier League. ❋ Unknown (2009)
