overbearance

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Ziolkowski, decrying what he believed was government overbearance and/or waste at Rushmore, stood his ground that no federal or state moneys would ever be used at Crazy Horse.

From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2017

For baby-boomer parents homework has become both a status gauge--the nightly load indicates the toughness of their child's school--and an outlet for nervy overbearance, so that each homework assignment is practically theirs to complete too.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Federal judiciary was looked to, with its virtually permanent membership, to hold the entire structure of national politics in nice balance against all disturbing influences, whether of popular impulse or of official overbearance.

From The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy by Smith, J. Allen (James Allen)

Pride should be a factor for noble actions and a great spirit, but not for overbearance toward the failings of others.

From The Reason Why by Glyn, Elinor

Under Charlemagne's successors the ruin of the Frank peasantry was aggravated by internal wars, weakness of the royal power and corresponding overbearance of the nobles.

From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich