Sentence examples similar to overrule permission from inspiring English sources
He overruled the Army Corps of Engineers, which had granted permission to developers to build a mall on 32 acres of wetlands in Massachusetts.
Two weeks ago, Hazel Blears, the secretary of state in charge of planning, overruled Northumberland county council to grant permission for an opencast mine at Shotton, on the grounds that the scheme - which will produce 9.3m tonnes of CO2 - is "environmentally acceptable".
But the London mayor has the power to overrule boroughs' decisions to approve or refuse planning permission.
DeConnick gave Marvel and Cain permission to use the term, but Marvel eventually overruled the idea, according to Cain, going with a backup idea that would eventually become just as popular.
Judge D. Michael Lynn of Federal Bankruptcy Court in Fort Worth, gave Mirant permission to borrow the money from the GE Capital Corporation and overruled the objections of some Mirant creditors who argued that terms favored the lenders at their expense.
On Feb. 23, a ruling preventing Doria from painting over graffiti without permission from the department for historic and cultural preservation was overruled.
The government's turnaround, from prohibition to permission, came after a USDA program manager was lobbied by the formula makers and overruled her staff.
In documents filed in a US district court in Washington DC on Monday, lawyers for Energy Transfer Partners argued that the denial of permission by the US army corps of engineers represented a "transparent capitulation to political pressure", which they implored the court to overrule and grant them permission to complete the pipeline.
Silvia is sure that she'll fall and kill herself, and refuses to grant permission for her to ride; Ginger, delighting in Velvet's skill and the transformative potential of her obvious excellence, secretly overrules her.
