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- verb rare Alternative spelling of
overridden . - verb excessively
ridden (Example: "...there was blood on ... the sides of his over-ridden horse", Sir Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf)
Etymologies
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Examples
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They knew I was interested in the person in question, and if my desire for the document to be genuine had over-ridden my common sense, I would have fallen for it.
Linkspam for 6-8-2009 nwhyte 2009
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He thinks the relative silence on God/religion in the Constitution is over-ridden by the Declaration of Independence (because it contains the phrase "inalienable rights endowed by the creator") and he thinks the First Amendment religion clauses apply only to Christians and Jews (and maybe, but probably not, Muslims).
Julie Ingersoll: Gitmo And Hypocrisy: Selectively Living By The Intentions Of The Founders And The Bible Julie Ingersoll 2012
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Clearly, that isn't the case any more, and the tribal instinct can be consiously over-ridden by higher-brain learning.
Hostility Toward Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I feel a little sorry for Orly Taitz, whose desire to feed her deluded beliefs has clearly over-ridden what common sense she ever may have possessed.
Linkspam for 6-8-2009 nwhyte 2009
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Points are all electrictronically controlled these days without the possibility of being manually over-ridden.
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He thinks the relative silence on God/religion in the Constitution is over-ridden by the Declaration of Independence (because it contains the phrase "inalienable rights endowed by the creator") and he thinks the First Amendment religion clauses apply only to Christians and Jews (and maybe, but probably not, Muslims).
Julie Ingersoll: Gitmo And Hypocrisy: Selectively Living By The Intentions Of The Founders And The Bible Julie Ingersoll 2012
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At best your guy would have vetoed a bunch of spending and the Assembly would have over-ridden most of his vetoes.
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Five years ago, no one could have foreseen that the Gas Rush, with its ever-growing track record of hazards, spills, leaks, explosions, water and air contamination, and health dangers, would have strained the monitoring capacities of state governments, and over-ridden the rights of ordinary citizens to the extent now seen.
Alison Rose Levy: Mr. Ruffalo and Mr. Fox Go to Washington, Ask for Moratorium on Fracking Alison Rose Levy 2011
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It is fixing a complex formula that Congress created to control health care spending but has largely over-ridden in an effort to please a powerful political constituency.
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So – it is preposterous for you to say that the “will” of the people is being over-ridden by the super-delegates.
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