Sentence examples for overbearing actions from inspiring English sources

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"Our protest is directed at the overbearing actions and stance of the government in Beijing, which behaves like an arrogant overlord, even in the homes of its neighbours," rally organiser Loida Nicholas Lewis was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.

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"Transplanting the Pirates Of The Caribbean aesthetic to the Wild Wild West proves disastrous in The Lone Ranger, an indigestible swill of forced humour and oversized, overbearing action sequences," he writes.

We'd all give a lot, I'm sure, to have been spared the overbearing action-and-horror fests of the past 25 summers (including, prominently, Mr. Spielberg's own "Jaws" knockoff "Jurassic Park").

Representative Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia and the House majority leader, has condemned the board's move, calling it an "overbearing action" that discriminates against right-to-work states in the South and makes it "nearly impossible" for Boeing to add additional workers.

According to He, the true sage does not become a hermit in the typical Daoist tradition, but, by careful practice of wuwei, the avoidance of overbearing aggressive action, a man becomes capable of social and political achievements.

Here the dad, Stan Smith, is a C.I.A. agent (and also not all that bright), emotionally vacant, unreflective, and cheerfully overbearing — the personification of America and its actions on the world stage.

They're meant to inspire people to action, but a month of nudging can become overbearing.

Pot activist Jodie Emery told VICE the city's rules are overbearing and that it could expect to be on the receiving end of legal action from dispensary owners.

In this one an oddly muscled-up Jay Mohr ("Action") plays a recently divorced father of two who has to deal with overbearing child-rearing interference from his ex-wife (Paula Marshall) as he navigates a new romance.

The annoyance sits there inside, bubbling away and may result in complaining to the wrong people (think about the times you've moaned to your kids about overbearing Aunt Mary but you've never actually asked Aunt Mary to consider the impact of her comments or actions on you and your family).

How overbearing.

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