Sentence examples for time overruled from inspiring English sources

Mr. MacPhail, the A.L. president at the time, overruled the umpire, citing "the spirit of the rules," and determined that the home run could stand, even though Brett's bat indeed had too much pine tar on it under major league rules.

Read part one of our investigation of the derailment of the SEC here. .

"With Dream, Shakespeare began his profound exploration of the metaphysical; the human world of Dream appears to be but the surface of an unseen world that affects and often times overrules the lives of those on Earth.

Year after year, the examiners came back with more dire warnings; each time Barasch overruled their judgments and refused to authorize any probe of Stanford.

The referring GP's suggestion or wish for a maximum waiting time was overruled by the consultants' prioritization of these patients.

The referring GPs' suggestion or wish for a maximum waiting time was overruled by the consultants' prioritization of these patients, which puts the consultant in a superior position versus the referring colleague.

Now is the time to overrule this administration's pledge to mediocrity".

One of the earliest documents, an e-mail message from 1999, indicates how the desires of the client could at times overrule best judgments on proper accounting.

It was the official position last time when Ronald Reagan overruled expedient state department advice and helped his friend Margaret in several crucial ways.

But at that time, he was overruled by his two colleagues on the panel, also from the Court of Appeals, Judges David B. Sentelle of the District of Columbia Circuit and Peter T. Fay of the 11th Circuit, in Florida.

His brilliant debut, Forgetting Elena (1973), reads the gay social and sexual rituals of New York's Fire Island in terms of the parallel rituals of 10th-century Japanese court life, "idle and gossipy", "profoundly hierarchical if superficially egalitarian", where decorous social behaviour contrasted with brutal sensuality, and ethics were liable at any time to be overruled by aesthetics.