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"overweening" Definitions
  1. showing that you are too confident or proud

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The overweening influence of its military had to be contained.
Along the way, she has borne criticism for German overweening.
The FBI doesn't have the overweening power it had under Hoover.
The fact that I write about problems we face now—overweening bigotry, broken communities, existential threats to human existence—gives me strength to keep writing in the face of overweening bigotry, broken communities, and existential threats to human existence.
Mr. Cruz is viewed by many Republicans in Washington as stubborn and overweening.
There is no answer to the overweening question of why the disaster happened.
It eschews big shows, red carpet dressings, overweening ad campaigns and hysterical logomania.
In private, they insist, he gets the need for a less overweening officialdom.
Ironically, the overweening law may end up doing the opposite of what is intended.
Overweening deference to executive power, in short, is not the way of the constitution.
Both pervasive fear and overweening pride violate our commitment to the lordship of Christ.
Actual women are silenced while you arrogate to yourself the overweening role of ventriloquist.
Ethnic groups with grievances towards an overweening army and state live in overlapping territories.
His instincts as the male in the relationship are traditionally cliché: overweening and dominant.
The nation's Founding Fathers feared overweening state power in general and military authority in particular.
That book in turn became the companion of some of the world's most overweening leaders.
And just as overweening state power is not liberal, nor is ceding everything to the market.
That does not just mean the overweening clout of the tech titan or the oil baron.
She was frequently disparaged as a nontechnical interloper of overweening aspiration, a nerdy engineer's Lady Macbeth.
Others will claim that a Citizen Congress would accelerate the longstanding trends of overweening presidential power.
His questions are more pointed, his assumptions more overweening, his tone one of knuckle-rapping authority.
Some build their overweening, often overbearing mansions with no regard for the genius of the land.
For all his overweening ambition, Hawley isn't the type of artist to frustrate expectations for sport.
China cannot achieve this alone, but its often overweening approach to the BRI has alienated potential partners.
They were shams, built like his campaign around empty promises and on Trump's fragile and overweening pride.
Its judgment refers to 17th- and 18th-century precedents, when Parliament defended citizens' rights against an overweening king.
His party has often accused Mr Hun Sen of being too close to Vietnam, Cambodians' historically overweening neighbour.
Clinton placed his own overweening pride and insistence on defending the honor of his agency above all things.
In itself, his fear was amoral, an involuntary reaction—"the terror was undoubtedly upon me"—to overweening power.
He made the case for Trumpism beyond Trump, journalism without malevolence and Silicon Valley shorn of overweening hubris.
Establishment Republicans quickly piled on, arguing that Cruz's has few friends in Washington because of his overweening ambition.
My unrealistic and overweening social conscience, and huge servings of existential guilt at being a (white male) human being.
King Lear, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Richard II: each an overweening blowhard, undone by a combination of hubris and derangement.
"Humility" is a more expansive word that connotes a conscious resistance to an armored and overweening righteousness of purpose.
Cubans remember the long history of malign American interference in their country's life, so overweening lectures could end up backfiring.
Kampala shows why African cities struggle to raise revenues, squeezed as they are between poor citizens and overweening central governments.
Investors are put off by erratic policymaking, the overweening power of the army and Mukhabarat, and unpredictable, often vindictive courts.
Practices such as tracking can be viewed as part of a system of overweening surveillance or merely as respectful listening.
A bid for Twitter — a consumer-oriented company with significant challenges — represented to many investors an act of overweening ambition.
Yet the T-Mobile case proved to be one of overweening ambition and an inability to read the political terrain.
Though its overweening title might suggest otherwise, "A Brief History of Women" is neither feminist nor misogynist in its viewpoint.
But the change in the advice-and-consent process reflects the weakness of Congress, not its overweening, presidency-constraining strength.
It will keep us safer from both overweening government and enemies abroad if Congress can get reform over the finish line.
Yet in order to become a high-income country, it needs innovation and efficiency, which are inconsistent with an overweening government.
His self-confidence is well earned but can come across as overweening—especially to those who suddenly find themselves in his shadow.
And you could walk from Cairo to Cape Town without meeting anyone who complains about the overweening bossiness of the African superstate.
It was composed of outcasts, nerds, the bullied, and it subverted the overweening masculinity of bands like Guns N' Roses and Metallica.
Are conservatives now to become unprincipled hypocrites and advocate for overweening presidential power just because that is what President Trump might want?
Its boundless ambition is matched only by its craven subservience to longstanding corporate goals and its overweening contempt for the public's health.
Perpetual enmity has also distorted internal politics, especially in Pakistan, where overweening generals have repeatedly sabotaged democracy in the name of national security.
The visionaries profiled here, with few exceptions, suffered from an overweening belief in the capacity of architecture to shape behavior and thus society.
Those would be a high price to pay for a response which would do little other than reinforce Washington's already overweening moral vanity.
Conservatives are accustomed to blaming that on aggression by the other two branches — an overweening executive and administrative state and a hyperactive judiciary.
May, she writes, was probably the right person to give it a try: an old-fashioned civil servant, without ideology or overweening ambition.
Thus, our nation lurches even further toward a situation in which the only actors of consequence are the overweening state and the isolated individual.
And the overweening behaviour of Chinese companies in some countries where they operate has stoked fears in some places of an over-mighty China.
" Toby Young wrote -- without a hint of irony, considering his own famously self-indulgent memoir -- that: "Wurtzel's overweening self-regard oozes from every sentence.
The Valley prizes overweening ambition but expects it to be "rifle-focussed" on making the world's best houseboat-rental platform or Cognac-delivery service.
Vietnam is hard-wired to resist and resent the notion that it is in any way a vassal of the overweening empire to its north.
The important thing is that there are solutions; the overweening dominance of the tech platforms need not be seen as an immutable fact of nature.
"There are solutions; the overweening dominance of the tech platforms need not be seen as an immutable fact of nature," my colleague Michelle Goldberg writes.
They'll tell you their foreboding "predictions" of lethal resistance are really about preserving the means to protect the republic against an overweening, rights-stomping state.
Taking it seriously does not require "overweening scientism," just a willingness to hear what science is saying, even when it is uncomfortable for one's political priors.
A notorious lone wolf loathed by his Senate colleagues, Cruz will now get to recast his overweening self-absorption and ambition as conscience and high principle.
Wherever overweening rulers clash with people demanding their right to religious freedom, Luther's divisive, dynamic spirit will remain an inspiration for a long time to come.
It was a simple notion, really, but one that required overweening ambition and utter indifference to institutional norms—both of which Mr Gingrich had in abundance.
" Then he cited the widespread certainty that Hillary Clinton would defeat Donald Trump in last year's election as reason enough to be skeptical of "overweening scientism.
The party's "overweening reliance on consultants, lack of a cohesive message and lackluster investment in its state affiliates render it weak and dysfunctional," Ms. Jones writes.
A story about overweening regulators delaying an iconic American company's product launch and costing good jobs compared to the European competition would have looked very bad.
Whither "overweening scientism" when Trump calls climate change a "hoax," and defunds research despite 59 percent of Americans believing climate change will harm their children and grandchildren?
Things keep getting worse for Nadine, especially because she's vocally obsessed with a good-looking classmate, to whom she accidentally (and graphically) expresses her overweening desire for him.
A geographically distant benefactor is better than an overweening bully next door, which seeks to treat its current neighbor as a pawn in its drive for regional hegemony.
" And The Times Editorial Board calls her "probably the right person" to try for the muddle-through option: "an old-fashioned civil servant, without ideology or overweening ambition.
But if history is a guide, conservatism will rise again under a new Democratic president — featuring the same concerns about overweening government, accelerating social change and American decline.
In his overweening interest in secrets and tall tales, in his relish for how stories are told, he's taken the Salman Rushdie exit off the Paul Auster turnpike.
Do they reason that American politics has reached a nadir of such fundamental hypocrisy and overweening partisanship that no one regards that pledge as anything but window dressing?
Where Chappaquiddick succeeds is in showing the overweening nature of the Kennedy myth—no one is more sick of the Kennedys than Ted, who longs to escape his fate.
" Brandeis went on, "We believe that no methods of regulation ever have been or can be devised to remove the menace inherent in private monopoly and overweening commercial power.
Mr. Sun's "Mythological Time" is a surreal, at times overweening animation set in his northern hometown, Fuxin, which was once home to the largest open-pit coal mine in Asia.
"The culture of overweening politeness in American philanthropy is leading to our ruin," Albert Ruesga, the president of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, recently fumed to the Chronicle of Philanthropy .
O'Toole dissects a number of myths peddled over the years by Britain's most extreme Euroskeptics, including the specter of an overweening continent determined to outlaw prawn cocktail-flavored potato chips.
Watching it unfold confirms that you have not been singled out for suffering, that you alone are not the target of some giant cosmic payback for overweening New Year's ambition.
The courts, the police, the intelligence services, the mosques, the public education and health systems and the media are all, in one way or another, subject to the party's overweening influence.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and key members of his administration are serious about reform, but the government continues to operate as a predatory kleptocracy due to the overweening influence of warlords.
We see drive and brilliance and rage and an overweening ambition that will commit atrocities in the name of discovery and maybe science, but we don't exactly know what you want.
To critics and biographers, his outsize claims of being "huge," as he said repeatedly in 2015, were evidence of an overweening ego that constantly needed to be fed and shown deference.
"Facebook is an overweening communication utility that abuses its market power, whose replacement with a more competitive ecosystem of separate social media providers would benefit the U.S. economy and society," he said.
I think one of them brought breath mints as a prop, but by that point, my brain was erroring out from the overweening exhibition of pale male flesh and over-serious manliness.
But even if, as many experts suspect, implementing Brexit proves harmful, many proponents of Leave had legitimate complaints about the E.U., which they believed to be a sclerotic and overweening supranational body.
As Paul Krugman has often observed, coverage of her campaign never failed to emphasize the negative: her "untrustworthiness," her overweening ambition (talk about sexist) and the grossly exaggerated problem with her emails.
He described himself as a "fascist of the right" and Godard as a "fascist of the left" but somehow his essential humanism intersected with Godard's overweening didactics to make something new, fresh, exciting.
Like most supporters of his country's withdrawal from the bloc, he wants Britain to strike out on its own, a fully sovereign state unshackled from Europe's pettifogging rules and the Continent's overweening state.
The Center for Individual Rights became one of the earliest public interest groups to grow out of this reassessment, focusing initially on defending academic free speech amid what it considered to be overweening political correctness.
But India has been slow to implement projects despite ambitious plans, and it has also often been a target of Nepali politicians critical of what they see as meddling by their overweening, much bigger neighbour.
The process by which Trump got to Pence was sort of stunning — several days of familial gatherings, muddied decision-making and an overweening sense that the Big Guy himself just couldn't nail the decision down.
At the heart of this drive for purity, and the overweening resentment it produces, is not Christian spirituality, but a fear of being eclipsed by people who are not like them—a fear of replacement.
That means bucking libertarians to use the power of the state at home to address problems like the opioid crisis, the use of pornography by teenagers, and the overweening influence of Silicon Valley in our economy.
No matter that Mr Flake is a lifelong disciple of Barry Goldwater, the flinty Arizonan prophet of economic freedom, whose own call to arms against an overweening central government was entitled "The Conscience of a Conservative".
When in the history of American democracy have state legislators voted to severely and onerously regulate trillion-dollar companies in their home districts, motivated only by an overweening concern for consumer rights (and not donor pressure)?
Four years later, a multicultural coalition of mostly low-income Angelenos calling itself the Bus Riders Union took the county transit agency to court for paying overweening attention to rail and to wealthier, whiter bus routes.
And yes, there is a cow in "First Cow," a gorgeous, brown-eyed creature imported to the settlement by the overweening Chief Factor, played by Toby Jones with just the right mix of imperiousness and insecurity.
The conference—with its overweening acronym, EPIC—managed to be a vivid example of a self-regarding security-state elite patting one another on the back for their shared accomplishments, while gesturing phonily toward the public they serve.
O'Brien finds more of the secrets of life in Hemingway than I do, and even I, when confronted with his most overweening examples of parental joy (no matter how self-effacing the delivery), had to shake my head.
BAGHDAD — For 12 weeks, Iraqi protesters have massed in the streets of Baghdad and cities in southern Iraq to demand the ouster of the government, an end to corruption and a halt to the overweening influence of Iran.
The overweening pride, lust for power and idolatry of worshiping the state that characterizes so many of today's conservative evangelicals will at some point probably doom them, but only when the criticism comes from within their own ranks.
If Wilson shows how overweening pride and utopianism can ruin best laid plans, Trump teaches something else: how a narrow-minded nationalist can undermine U.S. interests and values and forfeit the privileges as well as responsibilities of global leadership.
"But Trump's overweening self-confidence, his carelessness with language, and his suspicion of government professionals — another facet of his fear of 'the deep state' — exacerbates public anxiety and contributes to the chaotic national response to this crisis," he writes.
You've heard it time and again: The Affordable Care Act was a federal takeover of the health care system, an overweening piece of legislation that President Barack Obama shoved down the throats of a balky public on a party-line vote.
Faced with losing them, people have decided they're willing to fight for things like clean air and water, educational funding, voting rights, workplace protections, consumer protections, fuselage-crack detection, and myriad other blessings of paper-pushing bureaucrats and overweening regulators.
As CNN reported a year ago, he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were "sharply at odds over austerity versus growth models in reviving the global economy," suggesting that he and Le Pen share the same objections to the EU's overweening centralization.
He wanted to display Congo's best side—the really impressive side, not the overweening official villas on the hill in Binza towards which the little Fiat would trundle, then expire, and need to be jump-started while the sharp suits stood and stared.
And it applies above all to the so-called peace process that is supposed to end once and for all the conflicts between ethnic groups and an overweening central state, some of which have rumbled on since the country's independence in 1948.
Libertarianism as a concept might be useless if all these people can claim it as their own; but let's not discount those who use it to explain their concern about the way the overweening state treats immigrants, gays, and victims of police brutality.
In our own time, though, the dominant mode seems to have become overweening nostalgia for stories that loom so large in the cultural imagination they have almost assumed the property of myth — why else have so many competing versions of Sherlock Holmes?
But it is their embrace of the broader themes of guilt and American exceptionalism and the overweening ambiguity of the purposes and conduct of the Vietnam conflict, and their increasingly postmodernist narrative technique, that make the first Vietnam War texts notably prescient.
America, unlike several European countries, did not have an organized spy agency until World War Two, and the country's congenital bias against an overweening state, as well as the brutal examples of both the Nazi SS and the Soviet Union's KGB, lay behind Acheson's warning.
The quest for sexual self-knowledge, as two new books on the history and politics of sex toys reveal, would become a driver of feminist social change, striking a blow against men's overweening insecurity and the attempt (still with us today) to control women's bodies.
I did find it valuable, but I was (and am) still concerned that the major problems of modern working life are outside the scope of the individual, the result of systemic inequalities and billionaire wealth hoarding and an overweening focus on profit rather than principle.
Most important, if Bush's faith gave him certainties that became overweening and dangerous during his Presidency, why did they not so manifest themselves while he was on the road to Damascus fifteen years earlier, or when he was inveighing against nation-building in 20083?
But Christianity is part of the story, not just in moral concerns about abortion, homosexuality and the church's place in public life, but in economic attitudes too: for many evangelicals, self-reliance is the corollary of personal salvation, wealth a divine blessing and overweening government anathema.
In its unhistrionic way, Ms. Franzmann's portrayal of a TV producer named Clem (the always-expert Justine Mitchell) whose life is upended by her overweening need to have a child confronts head-on the chaos accompanying desires so primal that reason soon gives way to rampaging emotion.
His comments were denounced as "play[ing] the blame game"; "betraying a grievous misunderstanding of what it means to be the world's No. 21980"; "the mark of a careless and clumsy amateur"; "turn[ing] allies overboard"; "overweening arrogance"; blaming others for his own failures; comparable to Donald Trump; and so on.
It is rather important to grasp in every case, who and what religious freedom is for (women, in the case of the Mandate), how it stands as a necessary guardrail against the overweening power of the state, and why it will not lead to the oft-raised "parade of horribles".
His leadership was marred by corruption and human rights abuses and he now lives abroad in exile, but the political earthquake he unleashed with policies aimed at improving the lot of the country&aposs poor rural majority, and diminishing Bangkok as the country&aposs overweening center of political gravity, continues to reverberate.
Mr Sharif, 68, who retains control of the PML-N, says his sentencing was part of a military-backed conspiracy to deny his party a second term in office and to take revenge on him personally for trying to limit the army's overweening influence after he began his third stint as prime minister in 2013.
This year's season of Shakespeare in the Park opens with a new production by the Public Theater's artistic director, Oskar Eustis, in which he gives a contemporary gloss to Shakespeare's tragedy of honor, ambition and assassination in a seething Rome where no one is to be trusted, especially if you're an overweening head of state.
Now that Exxon Mobil, which spent decades willfully misleading the public on climate change, is to the left of President Trump, the true danger of climate "ambivalence," of decrying "overweening scientism" as our president razes environmental protections, should be apparent: it's anti-science, anti-environment, and an acknowledgement of an utter falsehood—even among its loudest supporters.
Part of the answer, undoubtedly, is the combination of Bill Clinton's great talents and overweening appetites; part of it is Hillary Clinton's myopic sense of personal righteousness; part of it is that they are lawyers, who try to use words — foolishly, sometimes — to extricate themselves from mistakes; and part of it is that they are the perfect exemplars of the baby boom generation, charismatic and idealistic and greedy for glory.
"An overweening, overreaching overly powerful government that can collect data on us all the time, everywhere anywhere and doesn't have guardrails in terms of how it's using that tool can initially begin trying to interdict and prevent crime, or trying to prosecute crime, and can quickly bleed over into interfering with what I think is the most American right… the right to have an opinion," Coons said at the event's close.
That last part is important because the dirty secret of RGGI is that, so far, the carbon cap on the electricity sector (the dotted line) has been far above the sector's actual emissions (the solid line): The way-too-high cap was the result of two things: one, the overweening caution of policymakers pioneering one of the first carbon-trading systems, and two, the fact that electricity-sector emissions have fallen much faster than expected, all over the US. It is only with the 2014 revisions to RGGI that the cap even got close to actual emissions, and only with the 2017 revisions that the cap threatens to actually start pushing them down faster than their "natural" rate in the long term.

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