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  • Dalton and Harvard provide a good pedigree to kick underpaid and over-matched teachers.

    Matthew Yglesias » LA Teacher’s Union To Get Its Shot 2010

  • It also makes the threat all the more over-matched.

    *Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka Book 4 — Recommended » Manga Worth Reading 2009

  • Europe has never produced and never will in our day bring forth a single human soul who cannot be matched and over-matched in every line of human endeavor by Asia and Africa.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • “Europe has never produced and never will in our day bring forth a single human soul who cannot be matched or over-matched in every line of human endeavor by Asia and Africa.”

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • The outcome could have been worse for over-matched Barbados.

    USA routs Barbados in World Cup qualifying game 2008

  • Rust had a scare from a very over-matched Democratic candidate in 2007 and throwing this kind of fire onto the ballot around him in such a Democratic district probably dooms his hopes of being re-elected in 2011.

    FCRC About To Cost The GOP Two House Seats in Fairfax? 2010

  • Is the extradition of more than a hundred drug gang defendants to the United States an encouraging sign of inter-American cooperation, or simply a sign than an over-matched Mexican government is afraid of the attacks that holding or prosecuting the accused narcos could bring?

    Ray Suarez: Mexico and the U.S. 2010

  • The Rams clearly are over-matched, but they won't simply let the Redskins run all over them.

    Redskins-Rams keys to the game: the offense 2010

  •  The gay-rights movement has traditionally been viewed as the underdog in most legal battles, but here it is their opponents who say they are over-matched.

    ‘David and Goliath’ 2010

  • Is the extradition of more than a hundred drug gang defendants to the United States an encouraging sign of inter-American cooperation, or simply a sign than an over-matched Mexican government is afraid of the attacks that holding or prosecuting the accused narcos could bring?

    Ray Suarez: Mexico and the U.S. 2010

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