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Updated: May 16, 2025
It was midnight before the faithful chum returned, and after looking in on the invalid, who seemed to slumber calmly, sat down for a final pipe by his own bedside. But Christopher was only 'playing 'possum, as our playful American cousins put it, and, his anxiety over-riding his desire for quiet, he called out, 'Is that you, Carl? 'Yes, said the other, hastening into his room on tiptoe.
When the last Duke of Cleves died a few months before, "leaving all the world his heirs" to use Henry's own phrase the Emperor had stepped in, and over-riding the rights of certain German princes had bestowed the fief upon his own nephew, the Archduke Leopold.
But though he did not involve his Parliament in ridicule, Governor Browne did much more serious mischief. In ordinary matters he took the advice of the Stafford Ministry, but in Native affairs the Colonial Office had stipulated that the Governor was to have an over-riding power. He was to take the advice of his ministers, but not necessarily to follow it.
Patsy dreamed dreams such dreams, visions glorious thirty miles of Solway swept clean of mist, great over-riding white clouds, crenellated and victorious the Atlantic thundering on the Back Shore, and all the tides of the North Channel tearing past.
Another significant institution of civilization is the idea of ownership, the division of property into public property and private property and the right of the private property owner to do what he will with his property, subject always to the over-riding principle of eminent domain: the right of the community to expropriate private property for public uses, with or without compensation.
They intended that the mass of the people should at all times assert and enforce their will, over-riding all temporary powers and superseding all appointed agents.
Enormous amounts of time, efforts, money and energy are expended by the more "normal" because of the "less normal" and the "eccentric". These operators are likely to regard the maintaining of their internal emotional balance as paramount, far over-riding economic considerations.
Many apparent anomalies in versification are due to the influence of accent over-riding quantity, and many again to the preservation of the original quantity in spite of the accent. Ennius harmonised with great skill the claims of both, doing little more violence to the natural accent in his elaborate system of quantity than was done by the Saturnian and comic poets with their fluctuating usage.
There was nothing domineering or over-riding about him, while he manifested a good fellowship at least equal to their own. Yet, having withheld his judgment after listening to Lucile and Harney, Matt McCarthy speedily reached a verdict upon spending an hour with St.
Should his decisions and actions be constrained by an over-riding code of right and wrong? Should we obey his commandments blindly or should we exercise judgement? Is the exercise of judgement the usurpation of divine powers and attributes? Isn't this act of rebelliousness bound to lead us down the path of apocalypse?
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