Sentence examples for overriding power from inspiring English sources

The episode exposed the moral weakness of the council majority, which failed to reprieve Nand Kumar, and convinced the Indians of Hastings' overriding power.

However, overriding power asymmetries have prevented a structural change in both the energy/transport and the agricultural sectors.

Lincoln explicitly recognized the overriding power of Congress.

Grayling wishes to return to a time when the state had overriding power to regulate and control citizen's lives through unscrutinised decision-making.

He was one of the first to observe the overriding power of the Cabinet in the party that commanded an effective majority in the House of Commons.

Nevertheless in a comment that hinted at the overriding power of politics, she said: "I am a prosecutor, not a politician".

On the other hand, the Constitution also reserves major, overriding powers for unelected, military-controlled bodies — for example, the one tasked with overseeing a vast 20-year development plan.

First, he supported the unpredictable use of federal power to override state power.

But this is hard to take seriously from a man who voted not once but twice for a constitutional amendment overriding the power of states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, demonstrating that for all his brave talk about freedom and federalism, he is not completely serious about either.

After exercising override power, a JPMorgan employee sent a report in May 2006 to a ratings agency that showed only 5.3 percent of the mortgages were defective.

In addition to other humiliations for Democrats — President-elect Donald J. Trump won North Carolina, and Republican Senator Richard M. Burr cruised to re-election — the Democrats, despite their pre-election confidence, failed to pick up enough seats in the State House of Representatives to undo a veto override power of the Republicans.