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overrule

verb as in repeal

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He might have won had Mercedes not overruled his wish to stay out rather than pit for fresh tyres shortly before the red flag.

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Mr Van der Linde was overruled by Amsterdam's district court, which wrote on Sunday that "the mayor has rightly determined that there is a ban on demonstrating in the city this weekend".

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Matthew Martin, 47, Sean Harper, 38, and his wife Shiza, 45, were part of the group and believed they could overrule the UK judicial system.

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Political appointees could overrule scientists to pull back and redo regulations they didn’t like, she said.

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By the time her partner Charlie Rowley become ill later that afternoon, paramedics raised concerns this could be nerve agent poisoning, but were effectively “overruled” by Wiltshire Police, the hearing was told.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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