Sentence examples for overstepped a from inspiring English sources

He says the scientists who are making a lot of noise about the bleaching have overstepped a line.

The Nozières, in this view, were a family who overstepped: a child who took too much from her parents; parents who wanted too much for their child.

However, Guru-Murthy doesn't believe he overstepped a mark by asking about the actor's "dark periods", and has defended his antagonistic line of questioning.

The earlier Unscom inspection operation probably overstepped a line by helping the Americans eavesdrop, thus lending some credence to Saddam's anti-American rants.

A succession of other cabinet ministers at the Conservative conference in Manchester professed not to have read the Mail, but many in private thought the Mail had overstepped a boundary.

My rule of thumb is, if I am asking my child advice for which I would otherwise pay hourly or for which he would have been paid a commission, I've overstepped a boundary.

It was a kind of benign tolerance: I was allowed to say and do certain things, because I was Afrikaans, until I'd overstepped an imaginary line".

Serious people disagreed about whether or not Houghton had overstepped an important constitutional point: that the military obeys elected civilian leadership.

She and Nwosu are challenging the fines in an administrative hearing on the ground that the city overstepped an ordinance intended to stop cab drivers from discriminating against minorities.

Other times, standing next to her, I wanted to sink into the earth, my body full of dread – a dead giveaway that my grandmother had overstepped an invisible boundary.

Yet Julavits suggests that as a "cultural guest," I choose plots to avoid overstepping "a hospitality boundary".