"overreach" is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It is used to describe an attempt to exert more authority or influence than is appropriate or permissible. Example Sentence: The politician's ambitious proposals were seen as an overreach of his authority.
I hope that their comments will further strengthen our longstanding call to reverse the overreach of these pieces of legislation.
The government's intense secrecy is an overreach, conducted at the expense of international law, human rights and popular notions of fairness.
All of them have ignored – or blissfully forgotten – that privatization, not government overreach, lies at the heart of America's suppurating arrest and deportation policy.
Putin accused the US of "meddling" abroad and an "illegal overreach" of its powers after the US attorney general announced fraud charges against nine senior current or former Fifa officials on Wednesday.
Though Obama critics can reliably add the NSA's overreach to their litany of complaints about the administration, it does not fit easily into the "angry socialist Muslim" narrative that winds through the other scandals they use to gin up support.
Both opponents and supporters of the RTBF are concerned about overreach.
Certain tweets, comments and press releases suggest Republican presidential hopefuls have made water the latest issue in a campaign to denounce government overreach, setting up good old H20 to play a role in the 2016 elections.
Some opponents hope that the SNP will overreach.
Some £40m ($66m) spent on software has been written off and another £91m worth will be out of date within five years.The entire project has been "a classic case of ministerial overreach", says Colin Talbot, an expert in policy-making at the University of Manchester.
It took an executive willing to substantially overreach amidst a civil war to knit states that still saw themselves as sovereign into something like a coherent union.In times of crisis, identity can't help but shape the resolve to fight or flee.
Haunted by the imperial overreach of the Bush era, they are drawn to a different model, Ronald Reagan.
