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He was alone and outnumbered at least five to one only spurred him on to greater feasts of scornful oratory.

Surrounded and outnumbered, with casualties mounting, Azuma led seventy men in a last ditch attempt to break the enemy encirclement.

Lord Wu asked: "If I encounter the enemy in a deep valley that has dangerous terrain all around and I am outnumbered. What should I do? "

Agents used to be so outnumbered by the crowds flooding across that they could not give chase to all of them.

This was later known as the famous Battle of Guandu, in which Cao Cao defeated the Yuan army when the Yuan army outnumbered his greatly.

The enemy outnumbered them almost three to one with superior weapons and defensive shields.

Being outnumbered , they were defeated by the enemy in that battle.

We were completely outnumbered by the enemy.

be outnumbered The girl was brave enough, but as being outnumbered, she was finally knocked into the middle of next week by the gang.

But the snag was that the Manchus were outnumbered by Han troops in Beijing.

Although this was organised with public money, it was outnumbered by a rival protest demanding justice in the Rosenberg case.

Elspeth slew many, but they were outnumbered and manage to escape further into Mirrodin's underground through a meat shaft.

We are a bit younger to protest strongly , but hopelessly outnumbered , have to drop .

Despite Alexander's army being considerably outnumbered, to astrologers of the time, the eclipse foretold Darius's defeat.

Even though corrupt officials outnumbered honest ones, and even emperors can be replaced, Confucians as a group still held on to power.

The Russians outnumbered the enemy two to one.

Chinese soldiers were cascading across the border into Korea. The Americans in their path were helplessly outnumbered.

They were ringed by police officers in black berets, and outnumbered by them, as well.

They try to help fight the merciless warriors that Makuta has unleashed, but they are vastly outnumbered.

Dutch soldiers have said they were outnumbered and not able to halt the Serbian invasion.

The outnumbered Sunnis feel locked out of a new Iraq dominated by Shias.

As prospective fishing places outnumbered fishermen, the committee needed to determine priorities.

Sri Lankan soldiers are battling torrential downpours as well as the Tigers, outnumbered but resilient.

But English-speaking films have outnumbered foreign ones , so far, by three to one .

Why is the crushing of a single peaceful rally, at which heavily armed riot police far outnumbered the protesters, so significant?

The girl was brave enough, sods outlets, but as being outnumbered, she was finally knocked by the gang.

His forces outnumbered Alexander's men by at least a 2 to 1 ratio, but Darius was still outflanked, defeated and forced to flee.

At sea the Persian armada of 800 vessels bore down on the retreating Greek fleet who were hopelessly outnumbered.

In some parts of the capital the police were outnumbered, outmanoeuvred and unable or unwilling to prevent looting.

As the night wore on, London's police force seemed outnumbered in clashes with rioters and simply absent from some major looting incidents.

Outnumbered twenty to one, the defending Tang forces soon ran out of arrows.

Government regulators will always be outnumbered and underpaid compared with those whose interest it is to circumvent the regulations.

Her 1979 election manifesto remains a monument to vagueness, and she was outnumbered within her own first cabinet by Tory moderates.

It's about the outnumbered defenders of a city prevailing against terrible odds , and fighting off attacks from an evil army.

Notable differences were found between the sexes: women outnumbered men and had more disease and disability.

The surveys at the bus stations and on the Sina microblog both revealed that happy residents outnumbered unhappy ones in every city.

GM also retains the design and engineering resources to develop competitive cars, although the good ones are still outnumbered by the dross.

Those hybrids appeared better at surviving eutrophication and soon outnumbered the original species.

Vastly outnumbered, they challenged the modern Japanese "Zero" fighters with antiquated Russian bi-wings.

The number of advancing stocks has steadily outnumbered decliners.

Although outnumbered, the Spartans and Athenians were more tactical, heavily armed, and had higher morale.

They met the advancing German army at Mons , a town in southern Belgium, and heavily outnumbered were soon forced to retreat.

Government regulators will always be outnumbered and underpaid compared withthose whose interest it is to circumvent the regulations.

In Sanjiazi, descendants of the Manchu troops who settled the village during the Qing period outnumbered Han residents.

In 1900, the number of electric cars outnumbered the gasoline cars by almost a factor of two.

Being far outnumbered, the four dragons could not defend themselves, and they were soon arrested and brought back to the heavenly palace.

Lithuanians (once a superpower, now outnumbered ten to one by Poland) think it brought linguistic and cultural decline.

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That year the number of foreign listings outnumbered domestic.

They were also opposing and vast outnumbered a far-right rally, as Steve Evans reports.

Again fighting outnumbered Texans, this time Santa Anna would lose the battle stunningly.

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The problem is worse now that journalists are outnumbered about six-to-one by public relations folk.

The soldiers in Puebla were greatly outnumbered and suffering from a lack of supplies.

Yet, protesters were outnumbered by onlookers and journalists. The streets were not even closed to traffic.

An occupying army will always be outnumbered by a civilian population.

Will he go with a midfield diamond because he doesn't want to be outnumbered again?

Payments by cheque easily outnumbered cash transactions.

Testers are generally outnumbered by developers during IT projects.

Women have long outnumbered men in earning master's degrees, especially in education.

Pinstriped suits and silk ties are outnumbered by checked shirts and silver belt-buckles; pickups are prized over Porsches.

Many UK-resident FT subscribers fail to realise that they are outnumbered by overseas subscribers.

The usual pro-democracy demonstrators were outnumbered by crowds of ordinary people cheering on the Chinese celebrity torchbearers.

In education, there are areas like math and engineering where women are vastly outnumbered by their male counterparts.

Pompey's strategy was working, Caesar's army was tired, low in morale and vastly outnumbered.

"Dollar bears are clearly outnumbered now, " he says ruefully.

Seven against plus the three abstentions would have outnumbered the nine favourable votes.

V. O. : A Fire Nation scout ship was approaching. It wouldn't be long before they outnumbered us four to one.

But supporters are vastly outnumbered by opponents.

Of course, the winners are far outnumbered by the losers.

The Thai workmen were hopelessly outnumbered.

A Gallup poll published on September 20th found that those who supported raising the taxes of the rich outnumbered opponents by 66% to 32%.

Mobile telephones have outnumbered the fixed ones.

They are certainly outnumbered by the Social Democrats.

If we are outnumbered, concentrate our troops and keep on attacking the enemy. Then even though he is numerous, he can be forced to submit.

Ishida is outnumbered but supported from in front by Renji. Till next week.

Women have outnumbered men in many countries.

Clearly i'm outnumbered here. But could i just saye thing? Please?

We were outnumbered from the start.

Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones by a ratio of about 8-to-5 on both the NYSE and Nasdaq exchanges.

As recently as 1990, working-age Japanese outnumbered children and the elderly by seven to three.

The first stewardess was hired in 1930, and by 1937 women outnumbered men almost two to one among those working in the cabin.

His intense concentration betrayed no hint of doubt, though he was outnumbered.

Lord Wu asked: "What if our troops are outnumbered? "

I may be outnumbered, but not even the odds can stand against me.

Advancing stocks outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE and Nasdaq by a ratio of more than 2 to 1.

On Tuesday, declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE and the Nasdaq by a ratio of about 8 to 5.

In addition, security experts are far outnumbered by developers.

November 1, 1592, At the Battle of Busan, the outnumbered Korean navy defeats a larger Japanese army.

In 2009, people over 65 were outnumbered ten to one by the working-age population.

This means that forkfeeders are outnumbered two to one.

With 1. 7m more women than men convention went by the board: for the first time women's advertisements outnumbered those placed by men.

Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones by a ratio of about 7 to 2 on both the NYSE and Nasdaq.

Decliners outnumbered advancers on the NYSE by a ratio of about 3 to 2. On the Nasdaq, eight stocks fell for every five that rose.

They outnumbered us three to one.

As being outnumbered, we failed.

Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE and the Nasdaq by a ratio of about 5 to 1.

We'll be lucky if we can hold this position against the Scourge. We're outnumbered, injured and have no escape route.

But they are far outnumbered by the 12, 000 security personnel guarding against any Taliban attack.

Outnumbered a thousand to one, but you didn't stop. You just.

In the first place, we are almost hopelessly outnumbered.

Luftwaffe air support would be crucial, but the fighter squadrons of Jagdgeschwader 54 and 52 were outnumbered 20-to-1.

The first year that women college graduates outnumbered men in the US was 1982.

Declining issues outnumbered advancers by more than 2 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange.

ONS records go back to the 1840s, when first-time marriages for women under 20 outnumbered those for women over 30.

In Asia, safe procedures outnumbered unsafe because of the large number of legal abortions in China.

A second problem is that any hybrid will usually be vastly outnumbered and outcompeted by one or both parent species.

I dislike being outnumbered, it makes for too much stupid in the room.

In the past, female teachers far outnumbered their male counterparts and now the picture has changed.

We will alomst certainly be outnumbered.

Closed -end funds in China are far outnumbered by open -end funds.

Retail investors outnumbered institutions 2-to-1 in the take-up, but Fidelity had expected a 50-50 split.

Advancing stocks outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by about 3 to 1 and by about 2 to 1 on Nasdaq.

Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by 5 to 3 and, on Nasdaq, by 5 to 2.

China's Internet users have outnumbered the U. S. population,

Pinstriped suits and silk ties are outnumbered by checked shirts and silver belt-buckles;