abolish, bear reign, counterorder, invalidate, override, reign, rescind, revoke, set aside, vacate, wear the crown, write off
Definitionv. rule against
Last update: September 25, 2015
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The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill. [Please select]
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The king had by a royal edict cumbered the queen-regent with a council and other restrictions, and it was necessary to get the parlement of Paris to overrule the edict and make the queen absolute regent, which was done with the greatest complaisance. [Please select]
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Some of the more thoughtful were for smashing the stuff, but the turbulent majority overruled them. [Please select]
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How was the revocation of the edict of Nantes overruled for the good of the Huguenots of France. [Please select]
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But there is a God in this world, and the evils were overruled. [Please select]
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Its greater evils are indeed overruled; Satan is ever rebuked and baffled by a benevolent Providence. [Please select]
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But I will not speculate on the aims of Providence, or the evil to be overruled for good. [Please select]
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He had not yet learned that the power of God may even overrule our evil for good. [Please select]
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