The key moment for her was the Terri Schiavo case, in 2005, when the President and congressional Republicans mobilized overnight to intervene in the case of a Florida woman who was in a persistent vegetative state, and attempted to overrule her husband's request to remove her feeding tubes.
Two other board members attempted to overrule the chairman, but their motion was defeated.
Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, for instance, companies including Exxon Mobil, Dow Chemical and Eli Lilly have attempted to overrule Canadian regulations on offshore oil drilling, fracking, pesticides, drug patents and other issues.
Companies including Exxon Mobil, Dow Chemical and Eli Lilly have attempted to invoke NAFTA to overrule Canadian regulations on offshore oil drilling, fracking, pesticides, drug patents and other issues.
To the extent that Brown's harshest critics operated within the law, they were within their rights to object that the Court mangled the Constitution, and to use political channels to attempt to limit or even to overrule Brown.
Concern about the biggest changes in the planning system for 60 years centres on a controversial presumption in favour of development which could be used to overrule community attempts to protect their land.
On Tuesday night the FCC voted to overrule Chairman Kevin Martins attempt to use what is called the 70/70 rule, passed in 1984, which found that if at least 70% of U.S. households have access to cable systems with 36 or more channels and 70% of those households subscribe, then the FCC would be given the power to ensure program diversity.
In dictatorships or monarchies no one would been able to overrule this pernicious attempt at excluding people for their religion.
The recent decision by the Department of Health and Human Services to overrule the Food and Drug Administration's attempt to make the emergency contraceptive known as Plan B available without age restrictions was focused primarily on concerns about access by teenagers younger than 17.
