Sentence examples for had overriding from inspiring English sources

Grayling wishes to return to a time when the state had overriding power to regulate and control citizen's lives through unscrutinised decision-making.

It was the first time in almost 50 years that the National Assembly had overridden a presidential veto.

One source of the growth in 1936 was that Congress had overridden Mr Roosevelt's veto and passed a large bonus for veterans of the first world war.

A report last year said that the meeting had overridden the school's preference on how to repair a crumbling part of a building.

Mr. Hirshon noted that the majority, "often a champion of state's rights," had overridden the views of most states on how to structure their judicial election systems.

The Canadian health ministry had overridden Bayer's patent and ordered a generic version of Cipro from a Canadian drug maker.

Congress had overridden a veto by Mr. Bush on only one other bill, legislation authorizing $23 billion in water projects that was sent to the president in November.

Several home care officials voiced dismay that 1199's rank and file had overridden its leaders and insisted on continuing the strike for two more days.

Journalism's amour propre had overridden a clear-eyed assessment of what exactly the paper really was.

Within three weeks, Congress had overridden his veto, the first time that had been done on a major bill in American history.

But the narrative of revolution has overridden any reality.