Sentence examples for Overriding from inspiring English sources

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Overriding

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Present participle of override

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But it may not be right for everyone and I'd hate to have a system in which pushy parents demanded home births, overriding the professionals' advice.

Improving people's life chances was the coalition government's "overriding social policy goal", he added.

Yet overriding popular local politicians would take bravado from the government and the utilities.Besides, the LDP itself contains many more critics of nuclear power than it did before March 2011, countering the influence of nuclear backers such as the economy minister, Akira Amari.

He is one of the centrists whom Mr Bush will need if he is to work across party lines, so this ritual hazing hardly boded well.The Republican senators then gave their leader, Bill Frist, an instrument for enforcing party discipline: he may now fill some vacancies on committees himself, overriding traditions of seniority.

Congress, should it so choose, can pass a law overriding them in favour of whatever alternative immigration policies it wants.

Overriding objections from pious constituents, the ruling Justice and Development (AK) party has just restored an ancient Armenian church in eastern Turkey.

This one set of numbers, in other words, does little to prove that speculators are overriding market fundamentals to influence prices.

Mr Eggers puts most of the blame for this, however, not on the mayor but on the unruly city council, which routinely opposes any reform that might upset the public-sector unions and is currently bent on overriding the mayor's veto and securing a minimum wage for city employees.The city's antiquated constitution puts a great deal of power into the council's hands.

The ECJ ruled in Santa Casa's favour, stating that "restrictions on the freedom to provide services may be justified by overriding reasons relating to the public interest".

Far from using the Social Security surplus to pay down debt or restructure America's pension system a goal both parties claimed to be overriding only nine months ago Mr Bush's budget uses the surplus to pay for defence spending and, particularly, tax cuts.

It also did well because many would-be Fatah candidates grew so sick of the old leadership's habit of overriding internal primaries and imposing its own people that they ran independently, thus splitting the vote for the party.

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