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overrule

/oh-ver-rool/US // ˌoʊ vərˈrul //UK // (ˌəʊvəˈruːl) //

推翻,驳斥,驳回,驳倒

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    o·ver·ruled, o·ver·rul·ing.

    • : to rule against or disallow the arguments of: The senator was overruled by the committee chairman.
    • : to rule or decide against; reject: to overrule an objection.
    • : to prevail over so as to change the purpose or action: a delay that overruled our plans.
    • : to exercise control or influence over: belief in a beneficent deity that overrules the universe.

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Examples

  • If there are five justices who wish to overrule decisions like those of Atkins, Roper, and Miller, Jones potentially presents them with a way to do it.

  • One report said Leach’s interview for the Tennessee job “went very well,” and another indicated that then-athletic director John Currie was prepared to hire Leach but was overruled by the administration.

  • If FDA career scientists get overruled by political appointees, that would also be a major sign of political pressure.

  • Let me give me you the three reasons why we think it should be overruled, and it was a very nice generous thing to do.

  • When they failed, thanks to a maneuver granted by a recent state law that allows a few large cities that represent a majority of the county’s population to overrule the rest of the board, they walked out.

  • He tried to contact a Health Republic doctor to overrule the nurse and get approval for payment.

  • First, he maintains that enactment of such a law “would overrule a historic Supreme Court decision.”

  • If all the mild mutineers could be induced to cling together, they could easily overrule Howe and his party.

  • I think it right to state the facts, because it shows how wonderfully God's grace can overrule.

  • Hope they'll overrule it—make a lot of difference to me if they don't.

  • It will, of course, overrule any conflicting view of the Provost-Marshal-General, if there be such.

  • We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it to overrule this.