Sentence examples for overstep by from inspiring English sources

In any other story, such a twist would send tremors across the pages, yet here, set against the novel's grand scope, it feels unnecessary, either a misstep by a young author or an overstep by a persuasive editor.

Since this June, he has been railing against the measure, calling it an overstep by the federal government.

"WOTUS [Waters of the United States] is a major overstep by the federal government, and I am pleased to see that the administration is acting to withdraw this rule".

This creates an environment where even the harshest critics of what's seen as Sharia overstep by PAS-led governments also refuse to publicly state their support for the LGBTQ community.

They showed that Wood had overstepped by perhaps a millimetre, but it was enough.

Your impulse is right, Beth: You overstepped (by about a mile).

Then it transpired that the umpire Aleem Dar had unaccountably failed to call Finn for overstepping by about three inches.

Yet the no-balls transpired, with Mr Amir, then 18 years old and one of the sport's brightest talents, overstepping by a huge distance.

But Judge Henry Hudson, of a Federal District Court in Virginia, ruled on Monday that Congress had overstepped by prohibiting a form of inactivity — that is, not buying insurance.

And in a place of superlatives, the school would probably not be overstepping by taking at least some credit for the improvement in the SAT scores last year.

This oversteps, by my count, seven or eight crucial social boundaries, at least three of which are use of the word "cellphone".