They did not use that power in the 18th century because the power of patronage overrode the power that they had technically.
I found my wish to help eradicate female circumcision for good overrode any other problems, and that is my truthful answer to him.
Elder sons had a special responsibility to show self-discipline and to perpetuate the family estate and name, and hence the duty to father and family honour often overrode other factors.
Their results suggested that when evaluating a story character's mental state, adults overrode the immediate facial expression of the story character and attributed an overall evaluation to the situation.
Now a new, deepened view of the history of science overrode the older: instead of individual disciplines the cultural areas in which those results were obtained stepped into the foreground.
In the event, however, a certain pragmatism, born of the political necessity to move persons as expeditiously as possible, overrode the positivist rationale governing the entire exercise.
Moreover, it was also of interest to see whether an older person's wealth overrode any adverse impact of the absence of a spouse or of a son or daughter.
Building market economies was evidently the main priority of the international lending institutions, and one that overrode other considerations such as less corrupt and better public governance.
