63 collocations for override

" "There he lies," continued the other, "an innocent child,there he lies dead, his little life snuffed out like a candle, because you and a handful of your friends thought you must override the laws and run this town at any cost!and there kneels his mother, overcome by grief.

For most men in most countries it would be a convincing argument, strong enough to override considerations of right and wrong.

No person was above the authority of the laws; no one class could subvert the liberties and prerogatives of another class,even the senate could not override the constitution.

We would neither of us, I am sure, wish to override her own inclinations.

"Say it be lost, say I am plunged again in poverty, shall one part of me, and that the worse, continue until the end to override the better?

We, however, are not content that a majority of the Legislature shall override inviolable individual rights, about which the judiciary is empowered to throw the solemn circle of the law.

Each of the professors in question overrides these objections, and Frank remarks, p. 13: "Lawyers and diplomatists refuse, and rightly so, to accept this view."

But the times are such that patriotismnot free from solicitudeurges a claim overriding all literary scruples.

The tendency in India is to override local authority, and to force administration to run in official grooves.

It is true that there may be a common feeling of justice in the minds of ignorant people which shall override the decisions of a learned Chief Justice.

The Rabbis felt that Mahomet and his warrior heroesAli, Omar, Othman, and the restwould in time dislodge from their high places their own peculiar saints, just as they saw Mahomet with Abu Bekr and his personnel of administrators and informers already overriding their own councillors in the civil and military departments of their state.

Saturninus, as we have seen, had overridden this custom, and the only way in which the Senate could maintain its old privileges would have been either by proclaiming a justitium, as it did on that occasion, or by picking out some technical informality in the passing of the plebiscitum, had not Sulla thus made its previous authorisation absolutely indispensable.

We have got thus far, that no two people who do not love each other should be compelled to live together, except where the welfare of their children comes in to override their desire to separate, and now we have to consider what may or may not be for the welfare of the children.

For the triumph of love had overridden the despair of death, and her face was flooded with its colour and in her eyes was its glory.

But it is the part of original genius to override the dictates of experience, and nothing in these pages is designed to discourage original genius from making the attempt."

Washington's first task, therefore, was to bring order out of confusion; to change the disposition of the forces; to have their positions adequately fortified; to effect military discipline, and subordination of men to their officers; to cultivate a large and general patriotism, which should override all distinctions between the Colonies.

And through it all her love for the man throbbed at the very heart of her, overriding all doubt.

We want a lowering of barriers and a unification of interests, we want an international control of these disputed regions, to override nationalist exploitation.

"Secession" was the invention of ambitious leaders, who overrode the forms of law, and have not dared to submit their votes and their doings to primary meetings of the people whom they have driven with a despotic tyranny.

The common proverb, "He hath sown his wild oats," needs no comment; and the inclination of evil to override good is embodied in various adages, such, as, "The weeds o'ergrow the corn," while the tenacity with which evil holds its ground is further expressed in such sayings as this"The frost hurts not weeds."

The meaning of words is so unavoidably associated with the sight of them, that I think this association rather overrides the primitive impression of the colour of the vowels, and the word 'violet' reminds me of its proper colour until I look at the word as a mere collection of letters.

It presupposes gardeners of the mind, who are quite aware that they have as little power to override the characteristic individuality of a child, or to predetermine this characteristic, as the gardener of plants to say that a lily shall be a rose.

His sense of what was becoming naturally overrode his acquired instincts as a skilled instrument that might help the race.

A railway parliamentary bill, however, overrides founder's intentions and Episcopal consecrations.

There were complaints too in the country of the endless lawsuits that now sprang up, probably from the infinite confusion that grew out of the attempt to override Irish by English law.

63 collocations for  override