overstepping

House Speaker John Boehner wants the House of Representatives to sue Obama for overstepping the limits of executive authority.

Shortly after the wedding, Pershing was promoted to brigadier-general, overstepping 835 more senior officers.

But Spanish law includes the crime of knowingly overstepping legal limits.

Likewise, today, the sniping and “overstepping” are if anything only getting worse.

The WikiLeaks cables show the government is overstepping when it comes to classifying official secrets.

You are overstepping the bounds of your priestly office, sir.

Excuse me, Phil, but I think you are overstepping the bounds of both courtesy and friendship in asking me such questions.

But she strongly vindicated them from practising unlawful arts, or overstepping the boundaries of natural science.

The idea of what overstepping the bounds meant, was impressed upon him with full force.

He produces equally well the more powerful gradations without overstepping the boundary of noble and expressive singing.