In the affairs of man, wounded pride and xenophobia often trump economic reason.
When you're in the right mindset, your best day of coding can trump weeks of frustrated keyboard-tapping.
Still, many parents enroll their kids in private schools for the trump card that top prep schools have long held: the powerful, highly connected college counselor.
When all other Satanic programs failed to halt them in their march toward the promised land, the enemy played his trump card, and assailed their senses with wine, women and nakedness.
Germany's trump card is its Labour market.
The quality and stability of baboon relationships trump quantity, the researchers say.
The government rushed out its reform to trump a lousy Tory plan and then chopped and changed it.
We all like feeling good about ourselves. But can a little praise really trump a slice of pizza, a great party or a wad of cash?
Draw your opponent's trump.
She was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.
My mother was livid. My grandmother had that self-satisfied look of someone who has thrown down an unbeatable trump card.
Joan Durbeyfield always managed to find consolation somewhere: 'Well, as one of the genuine stock, she ought to make her way with' en, if she plays her trump card aright.
Its writ can trump that of national governments when the single market is thought to be at risk.
If the court orders a new round of bidding or increases the lenders' take, it will establish a precedent that MLB's prerogatives cannot trump those of an insolvent club's creditors.
For Hearts, you may want to know how many trump CARDS are still in play.
It is horrific to think that an industry known for its dirty tricks and dirty laundry could be allowed to trump what is clearly in the public's best interest.
To beat Mr McCain in November, Mr Obama must persuade Americans that youth and intelligence trump age and experience.
But can a little praise really trump a slice of pizza, a great party or a wad of cash?
Since December, the editorial team has been housed in a nearby skyscraper, where they have yet another reminder that marketing cannot trump reality forever.
Even the occasional government is accepting that properly analysed data trump ideological conviction.
Mr Assad has one military trump card left.
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