Sentence examples for overbearing order from inspiring English sources
Or perhaps we are to see reason as the predator, the overbearing order of the industrial age.
Yet amid the obvious chaos that 38 million people moving around causes, there is a sense of almost overbearing order.
He's urbane, but also overbearing, ordering red wine when Pella would prefer white.
Cue ominous music". He's urbane, but also overbearing, ordering red wine when Pella would prefer white.
In the 17th century a jury endured two days' imprisonment without food or water at the hands of an overbearing judge in order to vindicate their right to return a true verdict, Grieve recalled.
There's a Sheryl who wields great authority over large numbers of employees, who risks being overbearing at meetings ("In order for me to speak the right amount in a meeting, I have to feel as if I am saying very little"), who has "a tendency to get impatient about unresolved situations" and who runs a tight ship.
Thus the "pain" induced from the introduction of a surcharge — exactly the medicine the doctor ordered — is not overbearing.
Indeed, many of them were telling me how they never wish to make the Arab population feel intimidated by their presence and are given strict orders never to appear overbearing.
The election of Erdoğan and the AKP in 2003 was initially welcomed by some pro-democracy elements as a means of weakening the military's overbearing influence, breaking up the old corrupt oligarchic order, and challenging U.S. hegemony.
Overbearing regulation tends to cement in place the existing order because large firms have the financial and technical means to comply with complex new rules.
