Sentence examples for overridden from inspiring English sources

A study by the Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative found that Alabama judges in capital cases have overridden jury recommendations more than 100 times since 1976, and 92% of those decisions overruled life recommendations to impose death.

"If a safety interlock has been overridden, it's a big no-no.

Such traditions are all too often overridden by governments.

The idea that competition law should be overridden by industrial policy to create a local champion that exploits economies of scale has often been used in merger cases.

After all, the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act of 1985, designed to balance the American budget, was eventually overridden.

A couple of the smaller items are almost certain to be overridden, such as a cut in Medicare fees and the effects of the non-indexation of the alternative minimum tax, both of which routinely get "fixed" and "patched" respectively.

The new French constitution, approved this week, retains a provision for referendums in France for any new country that aspires to join the EU (though this can be overridden).Yet the alternative to EU membership for countries like Serbia, Bosnia and, ultimately, Kosovo, is not a tidy Swiss-style association.

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.

Whether or not these obligations are both all-things-considered-non-overridden obligations is a further issue.

In other words, Dretske grants that S has (non-overridden) grounds that make it sufficiently likely that the animals are zebras, but he holds that S does not have (non-overridden) grounds making it sufficiently likely that the animals are not cleverly disguised mules because S's evidence for the former has been "effectively neutralized".

The reason for including "non-overridden" in the supposition is that it would not be sufficient for S to be entitled to believe something if S only had good enough grounds to render a proposition sufficiently likely to be true because S might also have counter evidence that overrides those positive grounds.