The combative mayor is now having to make compromises that undermine his outsider status.

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It's highly imaginative thinking for a designer who still feels some level of outsider status after all these years.

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Obama's supporters say that his outsider status and recent exposure to national politics make him an ideal choice for instituting change.

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It's interesting to contemplate why he didn't seem to take advantage of that outsider status to forge a critical view of the subjects he painted.

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Tsujihara said his relative status as an outsider helped him challenge the status quo at a time when the industry began suffering from the collapse of DVD sales.

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For all this, Romualdez still feels a bit like an outsider, a status that fuels his work.

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The company needs someone that's not entrenched, an outsider with little interest in pandering to internal big company politics and the post-Zander status quo.

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