0 present participle of overrule --
1 (of a person who has official authority) to decide against a decision that has already been made: --
The overruling would apply to consent, but not to belief in consent, as a defence.
Overruling relatives' wishes is very difficult in practice, however many of us may feel about the issue.
If his advice is overruled, he should ensure that both his advice and the overruling of it are apparent clearly from the papers.
On the other hand, they criticise me not for overruling, but for over-persuading the experts.
He said that we have decided that public ownership should be the overruling principle in civil aviation.
I do not believe that the issue of overruling his views comes into it.
I am interested in his response that there was no question of overruling the director general.
By definition, majority voting means overruling nation states, and overruling nation states means moving power from the nation state to the centre.
