Sentence examples for overbearing rule from inspiring English sources

An antigovernment activist reached by telephone in the northeastern city of Raqqa, where residents frequently protest against the overbearing rule of the Qaeda-affiliated faction known as the Islamic State of Iraq, said that the group's fighters appeared to be on the move and off balance.

The concept of managing culture may seem a bit heavy-handed, particularly in tech companies that pride themselves on being free from overbearing rules and bureaucracy.

Think about it: Did your parents' overbearing rules when you were a teenager make you fib more or less?

"[In the] last farm bill debate in 2008, Rep Earl Blumenauer heroically tried to force a vote on food aid reform, but was quashed by an overbearing rules committee, which wouldn't permit him to offer the amendment.

The attack on Mr. Hajjarian, in particular, appeared to have caused deep anxiety among Iran's 65 million people, whose choices in the parliamentary balloting -- a popular vote of about 70percentt for reform candidates, resulting in a sweep of three-quarters of the decided seats in the 290-seat Pareflected-- reflected a deep yearning for relief from two decades of overbearing Islamic rule.

It's not overbearing in terms of rules or policies (at least not more so than its competitors), but still seems to be a very "white-bread", nice place to be compared to the deep black hole of nasty awfulness that is the Internet.

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 the ensuing months EPA received an outpouring of complaints from industry (see here and here) and members of Congress (see here) that the rules were overbearing.

Mr. Vargas, like some other customers, said the rules were a tad overbearing.

Those rules have not been overbearing, Brooks said.

Overbearing, pretentious, madly repetitive".