Sentence examples for overruled with from inspiring English sources

But it's clear, from elliptical hints, that a lot occurred in that bank: that at least one hostage may have known one of the robbers; that both the bank manager and his teen-age daughter underwent something nasty; and that Nick, the cop (the pod-person-handsome Tim Daly), tried to be a hero but got overruled, with bloody consequences.

The nature of these "abuses" vary: examinations pregnant women haven't asked for, inductions they haven't fully consented to, home births that are refused on shaky grounds, midwives sent to jail for attending home births (yes, really) or simply a woman's voice being overruled with the increasingly used threat of a child-protection order.

McNish proposed building a smaller craft from the wreckage of the ship, but was overruled, with Shackleton instead deciding to head across the ice to open water pulling the ship's three lifeboats.

"They overrule, with impunity, the constitutionally mandated administration of equality in favour of women," the Verma Committee wrote about the khap panchayats in its influential report.

When Lord Burns overruled them with the proxy votes, one shouted: "We've lost our democracy".

When the system's managers have sought to pare uneconomic routes or to stand up to union wage demands, they've been overruled by Congress-with Republicans as guilty as Democrats.

This summer, Oliver Letwin and Matthew Hancock, two supposedly hard-headed, pro-market ministers, overruled their officials with the taxpayer's chequebook rather than upset Cameron.

He did not think he was getting any kind of home-court advantage when the chair umpire, Jorge Dias of Portugal, overruled a call with Roddick serving, trailing by 4-5 in the fifth set against Hewitt.

The GWAS is a step beyond, as it is not the correlation with a certain, candidate locus that must be established or overruled, but any association with any of the genomic markers, irrespectively of physical distance, is sought for.

A replay overruled the touchdown call, with officials saying Coale had not controlled the ball with his outstretched hand before it hit the ground.

He may not have convinced his audience, but he can overrule them with less bad feeling than Mr Stals provoked.Mr Mboweni's appointment is part of a broader strategy employed by Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's president.