Asiatics in the shape of income-tax, the Secretary of State for India overruled a previous decision of Lord Dalhousie, and capitalised half a million sterling, in order to improve the pensions of the descendants of Tippu!
And the influence of the clergy seems to have overruled this exclusion in certain specified districts.
It would have been a very bad beginning for Peel if he had been overruledby the violence of the Ultra Tories.
It was very generally thought by the lawyers here that the plea of abatement put in by O'Connell would be admitted, and the indictment quashed; but the judges unanimously admitted the demurrer, and overruled the plea.
In this, however, he was overruled by Gates, who decided to wait the approach of the enemy where they were.
These were difficulties, however, which he thought must be overruled by the necessity of compromise.
Overruled by their importunities, and goaded by a remembrance of the wrongs and humiliations he had suffered from the English, ** he trampled solemn treaties beneath his feet, and lighted the flame of war.
Such injuries had been sustained in the late gale and partial engagement, and, overruled by his officers, he refused compliance, sailed for Boston, and left the Americans to take care of themselves.
The defense interposed a statement to the effect that the Governor had exceeded his authority in ordering out the troops, but this was overruled by the court.
Frick, in which he himself was the principal prosecutor, but his protest was overruled and, aside from the trials of Dempsey and Beatty, Homestead was heard of no more in the criminal court.
It was nothing to the jurisconsult that his opinion was overruled for the moment by the magistrate who adjudicated on his client's case, unless that magistrate happened to rank above him in legal knowledge or the esteem of his profession.
These of course were overruled by the majority, who expressed the utmost indignation at the proposal, but the attempt to secure their active services was not the less made.
Some had wished to have something about the Corn Laws in it, but this wasoverruled by the majority.
His objections were, however, overruled by Ponsonby, who had taken upon himself to say that he would make England responsible for the whole and sole execution of the sentence of deposition.
But De Witt had made up his mind to risk illegality, and overruled their protest.
Even now De Witt tried to prevent the prince from having more than an advisory vote, but he was overruled through the opposition of Amsterdam to his views.
In spite of some superficial change of conduct, somewhat overruled by this alliance, he remained faithful to the popular side, and declared against the Medici as soon as he perceived their scheme of subjugating Florence.
His chimerical notions about angels perhaps overruled his work too long; but was it not in trying to make gold that the alchemists unconsciously created chemistry?
He adhered to his original views, but was overruled by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Nevertheless, they have often, years after formally announcing a certain legal doctrine in one of their opinions, declared it to be unsound, and overruled the case in which it was laid down.
Occasionally a case is overruled because it has been forgotten.
Phoebe demurred, on more accounts than she could mention, but her mother remembering what a drive in a stylish equipage with a military baronet would once have been to herself, overruled her objections, and hurried her away to prepare.
Judge Hazel afterwards overruled the petition, and the same day that he overruled the petition he decided the case in favor of the defendant, and followed my brief in his decision.
It may have had its origin in pride, but it is all being overruled for our good.
Smith seems to have protested against all this nonsense, but though he was governor, the Council overruled him.
A simultaneous attack on the village and on the hill was the course recommended by the Brigadier; but he was overruled in council.
Pottinger, had he not been overruled in council, would have snapped asunder the treaty before the faces of the chiefs, and appealed again to the God of Battles.
Afterward, when party zeal changed the name of Tryon county, and it was proposed to alter that of Wake also, the gallantry of the Assembly overruled their feelings of hostility to the governor and his family, and the name was retained.
A motion was made for a new trial; but the court, too, had now lost the equipoise of their judgment, and overruled the motion by a unanimous vote.
But the Supreme Court overruled these objections, reversed the judgment in his favor, and directed the suit to be dismissed from the Circuit Court for the want of jurisdiction.
I noticed that this was ill-received by the Crown counsel; but the judges overruled the Solicitor-General's attempt to squash my statements, and insisted upon my having a full hearing.
The objection was overruled by the coroner, and Mr. Wilmot was summoned.
This question is overruled by the court unless the cartridges were delivered by the witness in person.
Mr. Clerk was despatched to Lahore with an invitation from the Governor-General; and Shere Singh was inclined to accept it, but he was overruled in Durbar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overruled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
