And the selectors, or even the chair (Omar Henry), can overrule from that great distance.
Once Henman threw his spindly arms up in the air to protest, and as the Union Jack crowd hissed along with him, the voice of the chair umpire Jorge Dias turned the mood -- and the match -- around by overruling from the opposite side of the court.
Ministers overruled advice from senior civil servants and handed a £3m grant to a controversial children's charity that has been accused of financial mismanagement.
Earlier this month, it was revealed that ministers had overruled advice from senior civil servants and handed a £3m grant to Kids Company despite allegations of financial mismanagement.
But a court suspects her of complicity in misusing public funds when, as Finance Minister, she overruled objections from advisers to go ahead with the arbitration.
Tuesday's decision overruled objections from Jackie's lawyers that probing questions would be traumatizing for a survivor of sexual assault.
Gandhi had overruled objections from independence hero Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who had objected to Bose's appointment.
In the tie breaker, Stosur had five match points, two of which were overruled by challenges from Kirilenko, prompting Martina Navratilova, who was commentating on the Tennis Channel, to say, "I've never seen anything like it".
Under their limited form of home rule, in place only since the early 1970's, the City Council, the mayor, the budget and even citizen-passed ballot initiatives can all be overruled by congressmen from states whose constituents' firsthand knowledge of the capital may be limited to the compulsory school trip.
You write that "in the pell-mell race to Baghdad the generals in the field were overruled by directives from Washington, where military decisions were being made by men who were guided not by reality, but by their own beloved myths about what Iraq was like and how the war was going to be won".
(One of Barnett's proposed amendments would do the opposite, protecting Citizens United from being overruled by a future Supreme Court).
