It’s tactics at the cost of strategy, short term trumping long term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why You Should be Ignoring Your Search Results | Impact Lab] Reference

And that, between the loss, losing the war in Iraq and losing our jobs, is kind of trumping other concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2007] Reference

I don't see it as "trumping" the love I have for my nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference

PM-in-waiting Najib Razak has scored a major coup by 'trumping' Anwar Ibrahim in the defection game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malaysiakini] Reference

There was some discussion about some "trumping" tactics and factions that may be present, even beyond "leader rushing".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hushed Casket Recent Posts] Reference

Virtually everywhere, money is trumping tradition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballad of the Old Cafés] Reference

In South Carolina, tactics may be trumping substance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dixie Donnybrook] Reference

"The economy is trumping the environment for some people.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Oily Mess] Reference

It seems to still be trumping it with the general electorate.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008] Reference

O'BRIEN: So in other words, politics is trumping science here?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2008] Reference

Sound policy is often trumping adherence to political orthodoxy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why the Election Mattered] Reference

See if the gut feelings of investors are trumping the statistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2006] Reference

It sounded like business interests were trumping security interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2006] Reference

Critics say the policy reversal smacks of expedience trumping security.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2008] Reference

Critics say, the policy reversal smacks of expedience trumping security.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2008] Reference

ROMANS (voice over): Hu Jintao trumping his country's military ambitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2006] Reference

"What's trumping it is a gut-level unease with the direction of the country.".    From Wordnik.com.  [There Might Not Be a Tidal Wave] Reference

Today's topics: P. Diddy's Broadway, trumping the Donald, and new weekend movies.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2004] Reference

Loyalty has always been the greatest virtue to Giuliani, sometimes trumping all others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Growing Up Giuliani] Reference

FELDSTEIN: In those infotainment culture, the entertainment is trumping the information.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2009] Reference

She won a race there last spring, trumping many of the same skiers she'll face next week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Street's Life] Reference

SANCHEZ: In other words, instead of having 50 yahoos down there trumping all over each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2004] Reference

There -- I do think there is a human interest angle to this, but it is trumping everything else.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2008] Reference

It's a grandiose dream that, so far at least, seems to be trumping mundane bread-and-butter issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Son Falters] Reference

I think it must mean that the national political mood is trumping the sort of local Wisconsin mood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sen. Feingold Faces Tight Race In Wisconsin] Reference

The effort to mimic the Lincoln crest in the design is a clear case of style trumping functionality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pet Peeve: Lincoln’s Keymaster fell asleep at the ignition switch] Reference

The campaign's fear was that the United States would capture bin Laden before the election, trumping Kerry.    From Wordnik.com.  [TALKING THE TALK] Reference

Morality trumping Mammon is one of the few reassuring business lessons to emerge from last week's disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wall Street's Morality Play] Reference

The citizen is not pleading for a new right of access, trumping all physical restraint and tangible property rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

Reality keeps trumping fantasy and life is just one seamless season -- Pats to Red Sox and back to Pats -- of triumph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: Boston's Latest Legend] Reference

Flagrant displays of wealth are common in the south of France, but lately it's hard to keep track of who's trumping who.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter From France] Reference

SA on Wednesday raised its forecast for the current year after trumping expectations with a strong rise in interim sales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richemont Lifts Forecast After Strong Sales] Reference

But since 9/11, the imperative to reduce our reliance on Middle Eastern oil appears to be trumping environmental concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journey to the Center of the Earth] Reference

I wouldn't for the world hint that our clever cashier would dream of doing you any harm, or trumping up a false charge against you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick the Bank Boy Or, A Missing Fortune] Reference

You'd have to have been born in the Manchester riots of 1981 and your dad would have to be Shaun Ryder to even come close to trumping that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mohombi (No 845)] Reference