Sentence examples for overruled some from inspiring English sources

A few weeks later, he overruled some BP officials and ordered the company to stop the "top kill" effort, citing "very, very grave concerns" that it could backfire.

Mr. Ashcroft has issued warnings of new terrorist threats, based on vague but credible intelligence information, overruling some reluctant F.B.I. officials.

Overruling some of his angrier aides, he drafted a temperate reply to Nixon's letter, noting that it gave him "serious difficulty".

He made the apology in a solemn Mass last March, overruling some cardinals who had argued that such a step could confuse the faithful and give ammunition to the church's critics.

The Second Circuit affirmed, but two of the judges urged the Supreme Court to overrule some of its tribal sovereign immunity precedents.

But the judges who were preparing to overrule some of Morsi's decrees were holdovers from Mubarak's regime.

When Microsoft announces that it's going to increase its patenting 50% next year, everybody wonders, "why aren't we doing that?" Fortunately, the Supreme Court has recently stepped in to overrule some of the excesses of the patent appeals court -- in particular, its low standard of obviousness and automatic injunctions (even against complex products with one infringing function).

When Mr. Gore turns his sights on managed care, he laments that doctors' decisions are being "overruled by some bean counter" who "doesn't have a right to play God".

That objection was quickly overruled when some negotiators defended the right of public access.

The ruling by the federal bankruptcy court judge, Arthur J. Gonzalez, overruled objections by some Chrysler lenders and staved off what Judge Gonzalez described as certain and immediate liquidation.

In his first major labor move, Mr. Goldsmith overruled the advice of some longtime city officials by announcing plans to demote 100 supervisors from the Sanitation Department and return them to the front lines.