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Example sentences for "override"

Lexicographically close words:
overrating; overreach; overreached; overreaching; overridden; overrides; overriding; overripe; overrode; overrule
  1. We have seen that a Utilitarian may sometimes have to override these rules; but then the case falls under the head discussed in the previous section.

  2. He and Gregg were not on speaking; terms, but such an emergency as this was allowed to override their estrangement.

  3. The added power cleared Camari's image and speech for override into all open aud-viz transmitters and receivers throughout the system.

  4. We'll be moving through comm-override chatter until he switches it off.

  5. He tapped the channel traffic override to the Depot's spunnel booster.

  6. But, if the generals chose to ignore his suggestions and to override his representatives, after the march had once begun he was powerless.

  7. With the spirit that claims to dominate in its "will to power," to override the eternal laws of justice, there can be no compromise.

  8. The good of the party must override the claims of justice.

  9. The rights of the constituency of Northampton and their member were strictly legal rights; but it lay with the House to override them if it would.

  10. Franklin and Jay, though they did not advocate the policy of confiscating debts, hesitated, chiefly on the ground of a want of authority in the existing national government to override the acts of the States.

  11. The opposition of wealthy and populous Amsterdam was again and again sufficient to override the decision of the majority, for there was no power to enforce its submission, except the employment of armed force.

  12. But he had the defects of his qualities, being self-opinionated, stubborn and inclined, as in the matter of the vote of the Belgian notables, to override opposition with a high hand.

  13. So Leicester came back with the determination to override the opposition of the Estates of Holland and compel their submission to his will.

  14. The prince was far too prudent to allow his personal inclinations to override his political judgment as a practical statesman.

  15. Nevertheless the prince, although he was able to override any active opposition at home, did not venture, so long as England and Brandenburg were on friendly relations with France, to put pressure upon the States-General.

  16. An increasing willingness to override on the part of the white governments and an increasing personal hatred and contempt on the part of individual pioneers, account easily for the danger to life along the frontier.

  17. He felt it would be wrong to try and override the boy's desires without seeking the opinion of an expert on art matters as to whether there was any probability of Leighton excelling.

  18. An enthusiastic, unselfish devotion, a sense of chivalry or pity, would override his normally clear-sighted, intellectual acumen.

  19. His master had admonished him to watch his charge with a winkless eye, lest spirit override her reason and tempt her to a recklessness.

  20. It is only in the light of this emphatic protest against the king-worship which was soon to override liberty and law that we can understand More's later career.

  21. Its existence was in fact a contention that the will of Parliament could override the claims of blood in the succession to the throne.

  22. Proud as he was of his destructive exploits, as a triumph of toryism over conservatism, Lyndhurst soon found that he could not so lightly override the wiser counsels of Peel.

  23. On your contention, therefore, the custom consecrated by these sanctions must override the law itself, and nothing at this time stands between Barlow and the Queen's signature to his Diploma.

  24. The question, therefore, whether there is a growing tendency to override the committees is a very interesting one.

  25. Sometimes they are pushed so far that they can be settled only by a division or vote, but this is exceptional, for the object of the members is, if possible, to agree, not to obtain a majority of voices and override the rest.

  26. The House can suspend or change its own rules by a simple majority vote, but it cannot in a concrete case override the Speaker's construction of them.

  27. Would the institution entry override the principle of entering under best known form?

  28. Security is the primary, which must override the secondary, aim.

  29. Another form of moral paradox is derived from the fact that positive religions may override our moral perceptions in such a manner, that we may consciously admit a moral contradiction.

  30. But the men that undertake to override the laws and paralyze the industries of a country like this generally get left in the end.

  31. In the light of Fulkerson's history of the family, its origin and its ambition, he interpreted it to mean a sense of her sister's folly and an ignorant will to override his opinion of anything incongruous in themselves and their surroundings.

  32. Only trust me with her, and I will not override her.

  33. When his strong party feelings have coloured his beliefs from the first, his beliefs acquire an intensity which enables them not only to dispense with but to override evidence.

  34. But when they are regarded as ultimate truths, which may therefore override even the principle of utility itself, they are to be summarily rejected.

  35. The kindness of his nature won upon all equally, and it was soon discovered that a personal favor to Prentiss would sometimes override party allegiance.

  36. He has been expressly given by the Constitution only a qualified veto, but it is so difficult for Congress to override it by the necessary two-thirds majority that it is in most cases as effective as an absolute negative.

  37. But a two-thirds majority in both houses of the legislature could override the veto of the governor in Massachusetts, or that of the Council of Revision in New York.

  38. It would still be possible for the general government to override the veto of a state by procuring a constitutional amendment which would remove all doubt as to its right to exercise the power in question.

  39. Popular government can not really exist so long as judges who are politically irresponsible have power to override the will of the majority.

  40. Before the adoption of the Federal Constitution no act of the legislature could permanently override the will of the qualified voters.

  41. When a schoolgirl like you attempts to override her mistress' maturer judgment, she acts with wilfulness and ungraciousness, to say the least of it.

  42. There is no one in the school who can take her, except Honora, but I override no one's scruples.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "override" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abolish; abrogate; annul; arch; bend; bestride; break; bridge; browbeat; bully; cancel; castrate; coerce; compel; conquer; countermand; cow; crush; daunt; domineer; enslave; extend; fell; flatten; grind; humble; intimidate; inundate; invalidate; lap; master; neutralize; nullify; oppress; outclass; outdo; outreach; outrun; outshine; outstrip; outweigh; outwit; overawe; overhang; overlap; overlie; overmaster; override; overrule; overrun; prostrate; quell; recall; recant; reduce; repeal; repress; rescind; retract; reverse; revoke; ride; shingle; smash; span; subdue; subjugate; suppress; suspend; terrorize; trample; tyrannize; unman; vacate; vanquish; void; waive; withdraw; terrorize; trample; tyrannize; unman; vacate; vanquish; void; waive; withdraw