Sentence examples for was overriding from inspiring English sources
verb
To ride across or beyond something.
" 'You had sex with that woman in our bed' — that was overriding everything else.
Citing "extraordinary and unusual times," Health Canada announced it was overriding Bayer's patent on Cipro and ordering a million tablets of a generic version from a Canadian company.
Something dreadful was loose in the world, and the urge to stop it, to do something -- to prove something -- was overriding a career-long schooling in the virtues of caution and skepticism.
Some of them have suggested they could bring a federal lawsuit challenging the Legislature's authority if it was overriding the choice of the majority of voters as determined by the courts.
"The imperative to build more homes was overriding anything that might get in the way and I think the housebuilders got at the Department for Communities and Local Government to say all of this is going to be costly and difficult," he said.
But that veto was overridden, overwhelmingly, by the State Legislature.
In wrangling over budget issues, Mr. Levy vetoed the bill, but his veto was overridden.
Governor Johanns, a Republican, also vetoed the proposed study, but was overridden.
But that ambition was overridden by the need to feed a growing family.
