124 examples of overriding in sentences

But how is this to be watched and prevented if there is no overriding body representing civilization to say "Stop" to the beginnings of any such militarization?

We need, and Labour demands, a fair, frank treatment of African trade, and that can only be done by some overriding regulative power, a Commission which, so far as I can see, might also be the same Commission as that we have already hypothesized as being necessary to control the Customs in order to prevent gun-running and the gin trade.

Man immediately proceeded to discover means of overriding the limit.

The low bass and the light high treblethey reached him alternately, cutting into each other, overriding each other, clashing in agitated dissent.

The difference between the proposed practice of overriding the constitution by a vote and amending the constitution is vital.

Nor, so far as our national system is concerned has there yet appeared any reason to suppose that suitable laws to meet the new conditions cannot be enacted without either overriding or amending the constitution.

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.

It would be absurd to blame Ibsen for overriding theatrical prudence in such a case; I merely point out to beginners that it is wise, before relying on an effect of this order, to make sure that it is, not only possible, but convenient from the practical point of view.

And she wondered if Jack Fyfe had attained that degree of economic power which enabled him to spend several thousand dollars on a winter's pleasuring with her by the exercise of a strong man's prerogative of overriding the weak, bending them to his own inflexible purposes, ruthlessly turning everything to his own advantage?

Of course, it is possible to suggest that the Hague Tribunal is conceivably the germ of such an overriding direction and supreme court as the peace of the world demands, but in reality the Hague Tribunal is a mere legal automatic machine.

And when you come to look into the circumstances of these two Presidents you will discover that neither of them is any more free than anybody else to embark upon the task of creating a State-overriding, war-preventing organisation of the world.

They, too, will be forced to create some overriding body to prevent so suicidal a possibility.

But they will be overriding alliances, not overriding rulers.

But they will be overriding alliances, not overriding rulers.

This war has brought back into the everyday human life of Europe the great and overriding conception of devotion to a great purpose.

There, I think, is the overriding argument that will burst the proprietorships and divisions and boundaries, the web of ineffectiveness that has held the world so long.

And so the discussion of the future of the overseas "empires" brings us again to the same realisation to which the discussion of nearly every great issue arising out of this war has pointed, the realisation of the imperative necessity of some great council or conference, some permanent overriding body, call it what you will, that will deal with things more broadly than any "nationalism" or "patriotic imperialism" can possibly do.

It has been a rather heart-breaking processto sort out the scruples, admitting the just and overriding

His common quality with the Individualist lies in his repudiation of and antagonism to plans and arrangements, in his belief in the overriding power of Law.

It involves a sense of function and a sense of "place," a sense of a general responsibility and of a general well-being overriding the individual's well-being, which are exactly the senses the American tradition attacks and destroys.

Another point of interest was the manner in which the overriding ice sheets had scraped the under floes.

Undoubtedly, however, the Ottoman sultanate can count on its religious prestige appealing widely, overriding counteracting sentiments, and, if it rouses to action, rousing the most dangerous temper of all.

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

There you see extinction and survival, the perpetual going under of the weak, the perpetual overriding of the strong.

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

124 examples of  overriding  in sentences