Sentence example with the word 'overruled'

overruled

Last update: October 25, 2015


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Dean's suggestion of placing the little fellow out of doors in the trash was overruled by his more compassionate wife who pointed out the resulting reduced chances of January survival.   [Please select]

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The chief, however, overruled this advice, and, sending for Father Marquette and M.   [Please select]

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I advised that it be disbanded absolutely, but I was overruled.   [Please select]

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In this intention he was overruled by his brothers, who said that they could not part with him.   [Please select]

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Bokwewa objected; but his brother overruled all that he said, and in spite of every remonstrance, he departed on his travels.   [Please select]

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Cynthia declined his knightly offer, to be overruled again by Lila's smiling lips.   [Please select]

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Wickedness was not the seed of virtue, but wickedness was overruled.   [Please select]

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Secretary Chase, foreseeing the difficulty of effecting a just settlement, counseled against seizure, but his judgment was overruled.   [Please select]

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He spoke not on this occasion of his pretensions to the consulship; the great question, to know whether he and Pompey should keep their armies, overruled all the others.   [Please select]

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Fagan, as the shortest way, proposed, as he had before, to cut his throat; but the proposal was overruled as unnecessary.   [Please select]

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