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  • adjective Excessively mighty

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Examples

  • Terry is now routinely painted as the overmighty employee who thinks he is bigger than the club but no one was complaining about player power when he led the team to three league titles, three FA Cups and two League Cups, regularly sticking his head where Arjen Robben wouldn't put his agent's feet.

    Chelsea Premier League 2011-12 team guide 2011

  • Until journalism operates with a similar framework to other professions, it is dangerously naive to have any faith in the safeguarding of professional ethics and standards in the face of overweening and overmighty owners and publishing companies.

    Letters: Anti-Murdoch hysteria could threaten Sky News 2011

  • But everything potentially changed in 2007-8, once the taxpayer had to bail out the banks and got so little in return: for the first time, middle opinion began to wonder whether the City resembled the unions in the 70s – an overmighty, irresponsible subject that for the sake of democracy's health needed to be tamed.

    Who can deliver the cultural Big Bang that the City needs? | David Kynaston 2011

  • Instead of a system overmighty departments acting as a large impenatrable fiefdoms. max

    Matthew Yglesias » Nomination Follies 2010

  • They've done it by casting Obama as a quasi-socialist bent on forging an overmighty government and ever - expanding state.

    Barack Obama's down but not out Jonathan Freedland 2010

  • With strong Lib Dem support, he can begin to roll back Blair's overmighty surveillance state while at the same time establishing a new boundary between public and private life.

    First Big Brother, now Little Brother, and both are deadly 2010

  • He clearly believes democracy has been shanghaied by the interests of an overmighty finance sector.

    Robert Teitelman: Stiglitz on Crime and Punishment Robert Teitelman 2010

  • He clearly believes democracy has been shanghaied by the interests of an overmighty finance sector.

    Robert Teitelman: Stiglitz on Crime and Punishment Robert Teitelman 2010

  • It's the story of King Alazian and his struggle to subdue an overmighty vassal, Duke Varrel of the Five Cantrefs.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Tim Stretton 2010

  • It's the story of King Alazian and his struggle to subdue an overmighty vassal, Duke Varrel of the Five Cantrefs.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010

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