Sentence examples for overriding respect from inspiring English sources

Take Abraham Lincoln: known as "the Great Emancipator" who freed the slaves, Lincoln's overriding respect for the law meant he started out as anything but an abolitionist.

Republicans have spent the past five years demonstrating that they have no such overriding respect for Senate tradition by demanding an unprecedented 60-vote supermajority to get anything passed, essentially filibustering virtually every piece of legislation and every executive appointment.

If autonomy is merely one value among others, for example, then there will clearly be times when state support of those other values will override respect for autonomy (paternalistic restrictions imposed to promote citizen safety, for example) (Sher 1997, 45 105, Hurka 1993, 158 60).

I failed the audition for my school choir, so next stop was the choir of Pembroke College Cambridge, where, I suspect, respect for the faith overrode respect for the notes.

He was letting his own feelings override his respect for Meredith.

Yet, as local customs, such as the choice of needles and dialysers and fixed settings of treatment time and blood flow, appear overriding in this respect, it seems plausible that in everyday clinical practice the membrane surface area and capillary dimensions of dialysers should meet some minimal requirements.

Hers was overriding.

A movie that can scramble my signals so effectively, overriding deeply ingrained habits of response and judgment, is at the very least doing something interesting, so I approached a second viewing with wary respect.

"overriding a doctor's recommendations".

The moral issue is overriding".

Overriding that veto would require 27 votes.