overbearing

Example Sentences

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But in the wrong hands, whether that is an overbearing state or a foreign power, the information could be used for something more nefarious.

From BBC

Within a year, Shockley’s overbearing management style — and a tendency to claim other people’s work as his own — prompted Dr. Moore and seven other scientists to bolt.

From Washington Post

In his final Seattle curtain call, at ACT in 2015, he tore into the part of the overbearing Southern patriarch Big Daddy in the Tennessee Williams classic, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”

From Seattle Times

Koon has backed the establishment of a government religious committee, which some worry could come to resemble China’s overbearing religious bureau.

From Washington Post

Some players view the American tour as overbearing, restrictive and weighted toward events staged in the United States.

From New York Times