Sentence examples for she overruled from inspiring English sources

During Mr Yeltsin's first trip to the United States in 1989, she overruled the advice of the American embassy in Moscow on how to treat him.

But a court suspects her of complicity in misusing public funds when, as Finance Minister, she overruled objections from advisers to go ahead with the arbitration.

She overruled one of the country's leading experts in child abuse, Eleanor Laws, QC, who said he could be charged with 22 offences against nine alleged victims from children's care homes in Leicestershire between the 1960s and 1980s.

Aides say privately that they warned her there would be a cost to the trip, but she overruled them, insisting it was a rare chance to spend time with Sasha and with a friend whose father had died.

Several influential members of the National Advisory Council, a kind of kitchen cabinet that advises Mrs. Gandhi on social policy, were deeply wary of the project, but she overruled them.

In that role, in September 1975, she overruled doctors who wanted to sterilise an 11-year-old girl with Sotos syndrome, which made her physically advanced despite learning difficulties.

She is famous for her advocacy for women's rights, perhaps most notably her blistering dissent in the Hobby Lobby case, and her strong opposition to the court's Citizens United decision, which she said she wished she could overrule.

She has overruled other subjects who she thought were willing to take too great a risk.

But she was overruled and today, that's something she's happy about.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has also expressed regret over the court's 2010 decision, saying in September that it is the one decision she would overrule if she could.

Three years ago, after the Picasso Administration, run by Claude Picasso, decided to sell the use of the Picasso name for use on a Citroën car, she alone among the heirs objected to the $20 million contract, but she was overruled.