Nick Clegg and the business secretary Vince Cable signalled that the existing review of Israeli arms export licences would shortly be turned into suspension on the basis that some of the terms of those export licences have been breached by the Israeli army – in his words "overstepping the mark".
He and his senior colleagues have not explicitly accused Israel of overstepping the mark.In contrast, most of the Labour Party and almost all Liberal Democrats consider the offensive disproportionate.
Republicans compromised with pro-trade Democrats on an environmental and labour trade agenda, without overstepping concerns about sovereignty and protectionism.
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.
His props were as few as possible: in his "Boris Godunov" two chairs, a crozier, a plank and a bucket (quite enough for a coronation), and in his "Crime and Punishment" just a moving door, symbolising the hero/murderer Raskolnikov's dream of overstepping the bounds.
Second chambers, like Britain's House of Lords, could be given the right to put issues to the people in a referendum when they thought the lower chamber, or unelected bodies, were overstepping their powers.Unfortunately, none of this will happen in 2014.
Doing so now would be rife with political dangers allowing the Republicans to accuse the Democrats of overstepping their constitutional authority and, perhaps, enabling them to blame Democratic tight-fistedness if and when the war is lost.
Given such a mish-mash of expectations it is hardly surprising that the BBC is occasionally accused of overstepping its bounds.Under attack, the BBC has clung to a core principle: the public licence fee must stay, and must not be used to pay for programmes on other channels, no matter how worthy.
TEPCO denies any plan to abandon the Daiichi plant.The Sankei has picked on Mr Yoshida's taped criticism of Mr Kan to reinforce its case that he worsened the crisis by overstepping the limits of his authority.
WOMEN'S groups were outraged: but when the Supreme Court this week sharply rebuked Congress for overstepping its authority and struck down a key provision of the six-year-old Violence Against Women Act, even congressmen were not surprised.
On July 4th the centre-left coalition government filed a motion in Parliament to impeach President Traian Băsescu on grounds of violating the constitution and overstepping his authority.
