Sentence examples for or overridden from inspiring English sources

But there will occasionally be times and places when the protections of the law are ignored or overridden, and in those times, the darker tendencies of our nature will be given expression.

The memo says that in future no executive editor will be "hired, fired or overridden" unless both Denton and the company's president agree and no advertising staff will be involved even in an advisory position.

They concluded: "In our judgment, the clear and necessary implication from these provisions taken separately and cumulatively is that parliament intended EU rights to have effect in domestic law and that this effect should not be capable of being undone or overridden by action taken by the crown in exercise of its prerogative powers".

When sufficiently strong evidence becomes available, it turns out that prior plausibility assessments may be "washed out" or overridden by the evidence.

It's true that the rule can be waived at any time by a majority of lawmakers, or overridden if legislation is designated an "emergency," allowing big-ticket items to come to the floor for a vote.

President Enrique Peña Nieto has been leading the traditional charge, though he has also said that he is open to being proved wrong or overridden by the upcoming national debate.

This is a particular concern when a patient's preferences (e.g., online communication, use of alternative sources of personal health information) are generally overridden or ignored by the clinician, or, alternatively, when the rare patient overuses the access feature and ignores the policies and procedures set out by the practice.

On this model, "paternalism" may be defined as the intentional overriding of one person's known preferences or choices by another person, where the person who overrides justifies the action by the goal of substantially benefiting or avoiding harm to the person whose preferences or choices are overridden.

A more plausible and common version of practical moral skepticism denies, instead, that there is always an adequate (or non-overridden) reason to do what is morally required.

That keeps them nice and safe: these properties cannot be overridden or deleted.

Worse still, where are the voices on the left who share my outrage that Greek democracy is overridden or ignored by the EU authorities?