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But Mr. Kabila, who has been in power since 2001, suggested that the Carter Center, an American pro-democracy group, had overstepped boundaries.

As seen in "Cinema Verite" the clash between the Raymonds and Mr. Gilbert revolved around the couple's belief that Mr. Gilbert instigated drama and may have overstepped boundaries — rumors circulated of a relationship between him and Ms. Loud, which both parties denied and which "Cinema Verite" portrays as a flirtation.

They felt the U.S. had overstepped its boundaries," he said.

The Labour leader said the newspaper had overstepped the boundaries of civilised debate by deliberately "besmirching and undermining" his father, a Marxist academic who died in 1994.

Mr. Castro said the top American diplomat in Havana, James Cason, was sent to Cuba last year with instructions to stir up opposition to his government and had overstepped the boundaries of diplomatic conduct.

The initial challenge to Obama's executive action was brought by a coalition of 26 Republican-led states, which argued that the president had overstepped the boundaries of his authority by going around Congress and acting unilaterally.

The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, a former senior member of the House intelligence committee, criticized the NSA on Friday, saying reports that it had overstepped its boundaries "extremely disturbing".

But the civil liberties lawyers insisted that the documents — even without the sensitive materials — were needed to show in court that the police had overstepped legal boundaries in arresting, detaining and fingerprinting hundreds of people instead of handing out summonses for minor offenses.

Might the Supreme Court Justices believe that a Senate led by an obstructionist had overstepped its boundaries and is tainting the sanctity of the Court?

A succession of other cabinet ministers at the Conservative conference in Manchester professed not to have read the Mail, but many in private thought the Mail had overstepped a boundary.

Ketchum acknowledged in the exchange that he had overstepped Allison's stated boundaries: "It wasn't part of the deal..