Sentence examples for was overstepped from inspiring English sources
verb
To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
- That color scheme really oversteps the bounds of good taste. *
The mark was overstepped two years ago when he was struck on the head by a golf ball while playing for Bayern Munich at Freiburg.
Such a tribunal could be accountable and have the independence to deride spurious claims, protect personnel acting within rules of engagement and yet provide justice where it was overstepped by the individual or state.
In addition, the reaction entropy ΔS r for the garnet-forming reaction is required to estimate the extent to which the Gibbs free energy ΔG r was overstepped.
But this time the limit was overstepped where I am no longer able to judge, and that was a certain danger, since I live alone.
Maybe I was overstepping?
"He was overstepping the mark".
Some board members argued that he was overstepping his authority.
Some higher education experts questioned whether the administration was overstepping its authority.
He accused the agency of trampling on due process and said it was overstepping its bounds.
But when told of it, some lawmakers said the agency was overstepping its authority.
Instead, Judge Barkett said, the appellate court was overstepping its bounds.
