0 present participle of overrule
1 (of a person who has official authority) to decide against a decision that has already been made:
Looking first at (3a), it is simply not characteristic of common-law courts to approach distinguishing in the same spirit as they approach overruling.
Overruling the water-sharing plans developed by the management committees left stakeholders feeling frustrated and ignored.
Physicians, by claiming this as a matter of integrity, claim to be justified in overruling the individual patient on whether this goal is worthy of pursuing by medical means.
There is a possibility of a nuclear outburst, but as long as we can preserve our overruling strength, it is unlikely.
Perhaps we might have an overruling committee of that sort.
There is no question here of overruling a decision of the courts in or of disregarding it in any improper sense.
They are explaining the law, and in circumstances which have no effect whatever upon the acquittal; therefore they are not overruling.
By definition, majority voting means overruling nation states, and overruling nation states means moving power from the nation state to the centre.
