Mr. Thompson repeated the Bush administration's position that there was no need to increase production of Cipro by overriding or challenging Bayer's patent on the drug, the brand-name version of ciprofloxacin.
"On behalf of the state, I have no intent or desire to override or challenge local zoning regulations or powers relevant to the location or reconstruction of the Lyman Beecher House," Mr. Blumenthal wrote in a Sept. 1 letter to First Selectman Craig Miner.
Challenging or overriding his or her authority disrupts the climate of openness and insinuates totalitarianism.
But what if you could cheat the system and override the habitual challenges that cause you to break your new year career resolutions?
In an interview with the Telegraph Mr Blunkett said: "If public policy can be always overridden by individual challenge through the courts, then democracy itself is under threat".
Some of them have suggested they could bring a federal lawsuit challenging the Legislature's authority if it was overriding the choice of the majority of voters as determined by the courts.
Clitomachus had taken this as just an ad hominem argument, designed to challenge the Stoic defense of the view that the overriding principle of rationality is avoidance of any possibility of error (see Cicero Ac. 2.67 8).
But both agreed that overriding a possible mayoral veto, which requires 34 votes, would be a challenge.
Equally hysterical Republicans, fearing a British-style aristocracy, challenged voters to choose between "peace or war, happiness or misery, opulence or ruin!" When Republicans won in New York, some Federalists considered overriding the results, preferring civil war to Jefferson as president.
