Sentence examples for overridden as from inspiring English sources

President Bush's veto was easily overridden as Republicans in droves abandoned his misguided effort to help the insurance industry hold on to its large subsidies.

That is left to the Office of Professional Responsibility, which has no independence and can be far too easily overridden as it was in its investigation of the Bush administration's appalling memos authorizing the drowning technique known as waterboarding and other torture of detainees.

The requirements of professional confidentiality, for instance, can be so overridden, as when medical confidentiality regarding a doctor-patient communication stands in the way of saving a life.

A more recent study addressed the question implied by Zimbardo's findings: Can race be overridden as a visual cue of group membership?

Noting the May 2015 vote was not the first time the legislature had overridden a gubernatorial veto, Ricketts believed that his "political prestige and his authority as the governor was being challenged by legislature," Dunham said.  . "So he chose this issue, among the various times he'd be overridden, as the one on which he would make a personal stand and stake his political reputation".  .

Mutations in two loci were overridden as problematic signals (see shaded 'PS' signals in Tables S4a b, discussed in Text S1).

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.

Since we aimed to maximize the number of true positive alerts (i.e. alerts predicted as overridden which would actually be) and to minimize the number false positive alerts (i.e. alerts not overridden the next day which are predicted as overridden), we respectively maximised positive predictive value and specificity introducing weighing factors of misclassification.

Two alerts which were not overridden were predicted as overridden by the tree (false positive) and 27 overridden alerts were predicted as not overridden (false-negative).

The prescriber can choose to ignore the alert and maintain his/her order along with the pharmacist symbol: in this case we considered the alert as overridden.

The alert was considered as overridden if repeated on following days for the same order, consecutively to the absence of any modification of prescription neither evolution of clinical context.