"Is that wicked, mediaeval powerin the hands of the few, but still strong enough to overrule the natural tendencies of peoples towards peace and friendship and to turn their likings into hatredsis it going to continue when this war is over?

So between the new constitutions, which exclude the legislatures from power, and the Referendum, by which the people overrule what they do, and the Initiative, by which the people legislate in their place, the legislative representatives who were formerly honored, are hampered, shorn of power, relieved of responsibility, discredited, and treated as unworthy of confidence.

With far more acuteness, penetration, and fertility of imagination than are usually given to women, or to men either, she had still in some degree the defect common to her sex, of being prone to confine her views to one side of a question; and to overrule her reason by her feelings and prejudices.

V. abrogate, annul, cancel; destroy &c 162; abolish; revoke, repeal, rescind, reverse, retract, recall; abolitionize^; overrule, override; set aside; disannul, dissolve, quash, nullify, declare null and void; disestablish, disendow^; deconsecrate.

The educated Greeks were tolerant because they were friends of reason and did not set up any authority to overrule reason.

That would depend upon her interests; if she had the right of determining that, I do not see why she would object; if it were to her interest to admit these people to vote, that might overrule any other objection that she had to it.

The reason isthat he allows his understanding to overrule his eyes.

Here then is one instance out of many, in which not only the understanding is allowed to overrule the eyes, but where the understanding is positively allowed to obliterate the eyes as it were, for not only does the man believe the evidence of his understanding in opposition to that of his eyes, but, (what is monstrous!)

We have seen how, in the early part of the reign of George III., the House of Commons threw the sheriffs of London into prison, on account of their performance of what they conceived to be their duty as magistrates; and in 1840 it subjected the same officials to the same treatment on a question of the same characterthe extent of the privilege of the House of Commons to overrule the authority of the courts of law.

If there be a single measure which can overrule objection, subdue opposition, and command exertion, this is the measure.

And now the fool's wise saying of vindictive Herodians came true, for 'twas the king's mind to have mercy on his old servant, and tender him a qualified oathe, but Queen Anne, by her importunate clamours, did overrule his proper will, and at four days' end father was committed to the Tower.

By the will of Henry VIII., as well also as by an Act of Parliament, the ladies Mary and Elizabeth had been pronounced as heirs to the crown; this claim, however, he hoped to overrule, as the statutes passed by Henry, in the twenty-eighth year of his reign, declaring their illegitimacy, had never been repealed.

"You mean that Paris has a criminal able to overrule the wishes of a chief of police?" "Is that harder than to influence the Brazilian Government?

" "Wiser people than either you or I have been led to wonder at these things," said Mrs. Melvyn; "but the Christian sees in all the wisdom of God, who allows us to be tried here, and will overrule all for our good.

I am ashamed to believe it, all I say and do seems so flat; but our Lord can overrule incompetence.

At the outset of an inquiry how far existing facts ought to be allowed to overrule ideas and principles that are at variance with them, a preliminary question lies in our way, about which it may be well to say something.

They overrule all in favour of cue of the worst grammars extant;of which he says, "it is now studied by more than one hundred thousand children and youth; and is more extensively used than all other English grammars published in the United States.

"If the foregoing objection be admitted, it will not overrule the design.

We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Mrs. Scudder was calculating consequences; and, shutting her eyes on the too evident world about her, prayed that the Lord would overrule all for good.

To Thee, Oh Saviour, will I look to overrule 'my every weak, though good, design.'

"The policy which you will pursue in the United States is the following one: "Make them understand that whatever may be their intention towards us, it is not possible for them to overrule the sentiments of the people represented by the government, and they must first recognize it if we are to come to an agreement.

Providence will overrule it all for good, I believe.

"No reason can overrule my orders!"

ERASTIANISM, the right of the State to override and overrule the decisions of the Church that happen to involve civil penalties.