As far as Mercado was concerned, triumph over adversity easily trumped test-score meritocracy.

As Summitt acknowledged, the Huskies' experience easily trumped Tennessee's celebrated depth.

When the Sharp Wizard was introduced in 1988, it easily trumped the Psion in design.

He thrives and argues with different characters about his goal of becoming a stereotypical old grouch, trumped easily by most people around him.

He said the human ability to adapt to circumstances and limitations was equally hard-wired, and that fascination with a field could easily trump innate abilities.

It easily trumps the Kodak in speed, size, resolution, low-light photography, battery life, touch-screen features and price.

This was Miami, and in Miami, as the roughly 7 percent of the area's Cubans who are black quickly learn, skin color easily trumps nationality.

A house on Burton, now listed at $6,925,000, would easily trump the record of roughly $5 million set last year.

She could easily trump any contemporary celebrity with exoticism and egoism.

Politics could easily trump economic arguments.