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    overriding
    [ adj ]
    having superior power and influence
    <adj.all>
    the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism


    Override \O`ver*ride"\, v. t. [imp. {Overrode}; p. p.
    {Overridden}, {Overrode}, {Overrid}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Overriding}.] [AS. offer[=i]dan.]
    1. To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down.

    The carter overridden with [i. e., by] his cart.
    --Chaucer.

    2. To suppress; to destroy; to supersede; to annul; to
    nullify; as, one law overrides another; to override a
    veto.

    3. Hence: To countermand; to overrule; as, a supervisor may
    override the decision of a subordinate.
    [PJC]

    4. To replace (one system with another); as, the pilot
    overrode the automatic pilot and took manual control of
    the airplane.
    [PJC]

    5. To ride beyond; to pass; to outride. [Obs.]

    I overrode him on the way. --Shak.

    6. To ride too much; to ride, as a horse, beyond its
    strength.

    1. Hugh Johnson, a senior vice president at First Albany Corp., said the overriding sentiment among investors is reluctance.
    2. The overriding cause is the shortage of labor.
    3. The electoral college forces presidential candidates to address the issues of great concern to each state, as well as overriding national issues.
    4. Congress imposed the sanctions because of South Africa's policy of racial discrimination against its non-white majority, overriding a veto by President Reagan in the process.
    5. From that point onwards, safety became the overriding priority.
    6. Public confidence in the probity of Conservatives will not be restored unless Mr Major demonstrates that he regards the establishment of clean government as an overriding medium-term priority.
    7. Louisiana's Senate voted Saturday against overriding Gov. Buddy Roemer's veto of what would have been the nation's toughest state abortion law.
    8. Nancy Gertner, a lawyer for Matthew Stuart, argued at the hearing that no Massachusetts case law gives precedent for overriding the attorney-client privilege in the interest of justice.
    9. Nancy Gertner, the attorney representing Matthew Stuart, told the court that overriding the attorney-client privilege would mean that attorneys could no longer be trusted with confidences.
    10. IISS/Brassey's, Pounds 9.50 The western response to the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina has so far been marked by its overriding sense of caution.
    11. "Discrimination in federally funded institutions is occurring at accelerated rates," Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif., said Tuesday as the House joined the Senate in overriding Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act.
    12. For Germany and the rest of the world, one overriding interest lies behind largesse on this scale: stability.
    13. The overriding powers of an interior ministry are regarded as un-English.
    14. The Suffolk County Legislature passed the law June 14, overriding a veto of the measure by County Executive Patrick Halpin.
    15. Last Friday it was argued here, as elsewhere, that if Mr Major is to regain the confidence of the electorate in the good faith of his government he must make it his overriding purpose to do so.
    16. The relief was qualified, however, by a vote overriding the veto in the U.S. House of Representatives and the reasons behind Reagan's disapproval of the bill.
    17. But these procedures are relatively new and there are no universally agreed standards, although the overriding emphasis is on the collection and systematic storage of information.
    18. These are the managers whose overriding concerns are how much credit they're getting, how much money they're making and how fast they're moving up the corporate ladder.
    19. But overriding the misgivings is a tremendous sense of vitality, what some are calling a gold-rush feeling, as 1992 approaches.
    20. Mr Sutherland said he had held talks last week with Mr Lewis Preston, president of the World Bank, to this end. The overriding priority of 'the Brettons Woods institutions' had to be attention to the position of sub-Saharan Africa.
    21. It presents no great issue of legal principle, no overriding question of family law or the law of contempt.
    22. Why put it off so the presidential and vice presidential candidates can debate who is more pro-family." The House has scheduled a vote, probably Tuesday, on overriding President Reagan's veto of the Textile and Apparel Trade Act.
    23. The analysts said other major groups _ such as union members, homosexuals and Roman Catholics _ do not seem to be drawn to any of the candidates by a single overriding issue in next Tuesday's vote.
    24. The overriding concern was the effect of violence on children.
    25. Significantly, when Colombo's curfew was lifted temporarily late last month, the overriding complaint was an inability to find bread.
    26. As Mr Norman Lamont said in his Budget Speech, 'interest rates remain the essential instrument of monetary policy, but now the overriding factor in setting them is the need to meet the UK's ERM obligations'.
    27. Although the trade data were worse than many economists had expected, a Federal Statistics Office spokesman said they shouldn't be viewed as too surprising in view of the overriding unification-related influences on the economy.
    28. The District Court there has issued a restraining order to keep the RTC from going ahead with any transaction that would involve overriding Colorado state law.
    29. I hope we never again see industrial action in our classrooms. As I have always said, my overriding objective is to raise standards.
    30. President Reagan signed legislation overriding a Supreme Court decision that allowed the Veterans Administration to deny benefits to veterans who were alcoholics because their conduct was labeled "willful misconduct," the White House said Saturday.
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