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Meanwhile, Congressional Republicans keep trying to out-do one another in proving their commitment to a military security state.

Daphne Eviatar: The Absurdity of the National Security State Daphne Eviatar 2011

Basically, the show runners of so many series now days feel compelled to come up with some sort of Earth-shattering cliffhanger ending each season and they constantly try to out-do what they did the last time around.

Sci Fi TV Briefs – Do Season Finales Have to Push the Envelope? 2009

In an exaggerated show of solidarity, the youths tried to out-do one another in the praise of chief Nwakibie.

July « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

Meanwhile, Congressional Republicans keep trying to out-do one another in proving their commitment to a military security state.

Daphne Eviatar: The Absurdity of the National Security State Daphne Eviatar 2011

In an exaggerated show of solidarity, the youths tried to out-do one another in the praise of chief Nwakibie.

chidozie chukwubuike | the decoration « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

Gus Van Sant evidently wants to protect himself from such criticism, so at one point scripts a scene where the lovers out-do themselves in banal assertions of love, until giggling, they admit that for them it is just a script as well.

Karin Badt: Cannes Premiere: Gus Van Sant's Restless Too Calm Karin Badt 2011

Lush's hand-scrawled witticisms in the gallery are similar to his sardonic sticker tags, though using the platform to out-do himself by painting aphorisms appended by his own ridicule.

John Wellington Ennis: Lush Sells Out in LA (Photos) John Wellington Ennis 2011

Lush's hand-scrawled witticisms in the gallery are similar to his sardonic sticker tags, though using the platform to out-do himself by painting aphorisms appended by his own ridicule.

John Wellington Ennis: Lush Sells Out in LA (Photos) John Wellington Ennis 2011

Gus Van Sant evidently wants to protect himself from such criticism, so at one point scripts a scene where the lovers out-do themselves in banal assertions of love, until giggling, they admit that for them it is just a script as well.

Karin Badt: Cannes Premiere: Gus Van Sant's Restless Too Calm Karin Badt 2011

In other words, are the makers of the videos in Kashmir, or in the Jaffna peninsula, aware of, and in some senses seeking to out-do the actions of their peers and predecessors in Abu Ghraib?

Ethan Casey: Marines Urinating on Dead Taliban: How Low Will We Go? Ethan Casey 2012