be overtaken by events

But all this may well soon be overtaken by events.

I did my best to tell them that events had overtaken me.

Everything is changing and I am being overtaken by events.

But today it did say for the first time that "the $270 million figure has been overtaken by events."

To some extent, this study has been overtaken by events.

The three other issues raised in addition to the election question have been overtaken by events.

We cannot afford to be overtaken by events any longer.

Finally, this report seems to me to have been somewhat overtaken by events.

Events overtook the project and it was never carried out.

These plans were overtaken by events, as peace was declared.