| For some the right to a fair trial is trumped by rubber-necking, political opportunism and puerile attention seeking. |
| Fear of litigation, an admittedly necessary concern, trumped a bishop's duty to his priests and to his flock. |
| Players must follow suit, except that a non-trump lead may be trumped even if you have a card of the suit led. |
| If a plain suit lead has been trumped, it is illegal to undertrump unless by doing so one creates a K-Q or K-Q-J combination in the trick. |
| If someone had set about devising a system to kill off the market in non-executive directors, they couldn't have trumped this effort. |
| For too long, the moral and self-interested case against arms exports has been trumped by the apparently invincible economic case. |
