How To Use Overstep In A Sentence
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He has overstepped the bounds of acceptable behaviour.
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But next day when the cobbler ventured to criticise the legs, the painter came forth from his hiding-place and recommended the cobbler to stick to the shoes -- advice which in the words of the Latin version of the story also has been adopted as a proverb, _Ne sutor ultra crepidam_ ( "Let not the shoemaker overstep his last").
Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young
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He overstepped the mark and we had no option but to suspend him.
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I think he overstepped the line.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most serious of all is that our political leaders repeatedly overstepped the scope of their constitutionally prescribed jobs.
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When I saw a Negro walking down the street I knew what it was like to have people look at you, watch what you're doing, watch close if you 'overstep' the line.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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Thomas, obedient to codes of privacy, didn't want to overstep the line.
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Is that what you call overstepping the mark a trifle?
Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux
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In newspaper articles she consistently upbraided those in authority who overstepped their limits.
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Gee, how else would a spokesman for the real party of treason, the Republicans, answer a charge that this criminal administration has once again overstepped the law so badly that even their own Kangaroo Court is voting against them!
Think Progress » Lott: Supreme Court Decision Is ‘Ridiculous and Outrageous,’ Has Our Enemies ‘Laughing At Us’
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DomainsNext argues that Go Daddy is overstepping its bounds regarding the use of the term "daddy": "your effort to have a monopoly and exclusive right to the word daddy is illegal, and defies logic and business practices".
Domain Name Wire
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On the other, Dave is coming dangerously close to overstepping the line of acceptable behavior!
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You've overstepped the mark this time, Simpson - you're fired!
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It said that the defendant, who is alleged to have lost Allied Irish Banks' American subsidiary Allfirst more than €766 million, was routinely overstepping his credit limit.
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The university relations officer feels that the student society is overstepping its mandate by entering into such a contract.
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The city claims that Carvin showed poor judgment and overstepped his authority in raising issues of attorney bill padding.
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And I think Theo must have realised he'd overstepped the mark because when we got back he went straight upstairs.
RESCUING ROSE
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A military commander may overstep the bounds of constitutionality, and it is an incident.
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Appearances, however, which have been deceptive before, may again deceive; and the history of nations teams with proofs that when once they have overstepped the bounds of reason, albeit with the purpose of returning when their ends shall have been accomplished, the very events which their own passion has produced frequently raise a barrier against their retreat, and nulla vestigia retrorsum becomes their doom.
The Secession Movement in America
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The court had overstepped the line.
Times, Sunday Times
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The terms overstep a resolution passed by the Bundestag limiting how far she could go in committing Germany to any form of transfer union or pooling of debts.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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I think he overstepped the line.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government threatened a showdown with Global Strategies Group, saying the London-based firm overstepped its powers when private guards shut the airport at dawn.
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Adrian Sanders MP, the progressive rock devotee and proud thickie, has overstepped the mark here.
Orange By Name: Sanders Assault Unprovoked, Serious
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The judicial branch has clearly overstepped their powers.
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Indeed the book deliberately oversteps any fine lines of political correctness to ventilate the incorrectness of anger and cynicism, the voicing of nasty things that are felt and festering, but usually left unspoken.
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I overstepped the line at a time when I was heavily influenced by the emotions of a disappointing defeat.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's surely overstepping the mark to behave so rudely to your guests.
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I think grandparents can kind of overstep their boundaries.
Jenny McCarthy Shape Cover Photo Airbrushed
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The bad language in that play overstepped the limits/boundaries of what ought to be allowed on television.
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I knew I'd probably overstepped the mark, but at least she'd given up on the back room.
THE MANANA MAN
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Thanks! and I agee on "overstepping" by Michael Collins on Sunday, Jan 4, 2009 at 5: 03: 48 PM
Seating Franken and Burris: Memo to Congress
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The bad language in that play overstepped the limits/boundaries of what ought to be allowed on television.
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He overstepped the mark and we had no option but to suspend him.
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To say however that this route supplies the only reliable way to knowledge is grossly to overstep its boundaries.
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But the defence still wants some of the items disqualified, claiming that investigators overstepped the limits of the search warrant.
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She's overstepped the mark in trying to change.Change was all very well but it could be carried too far.
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The government oversteps its discretionary power to censor political speech when protesters are discriminated against merely based on the content of their unpopular speech.
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A group of private high profile business citizens to advise the government, and make sure the government does not "overstep" their boundaries, and redistribute money to unworthy areas, groups, causes, etc.
Hot Air » Top Picks
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`And judging by your conversation with them just now they thought you were overstepping the mark.
SANDS OF TIME
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That occasionally he might overstep the line is unsurprising.
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The Commission is sensitive to accusations that it is overstepping its authority.
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Anyone overstepping the limit can expect a ‘£5 fee for exceeding the monthly limit’.
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It's surely overstepping the mark to behave so rudely to your guests.
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Thanks! and I agee on "overstepping" by Michael Collins on Sunday, Jan 4, 2009 at 5: 03: 48 PM
Seating Franken and Burris: Memo to Congress
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The Commission is sensitive to accusations that it is overstepping its authority.
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This time it is Ashikaga Bank, which apparently has overstepped its adequacy limit, or something.
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This conclusion is independent of whether the organ or official has contravened provisions of internal law or overstepped the limits of his authority.
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For a moment, I thought my sally had overstepped our bounds.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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I have overstepped my boundaries, challenged his authority, sabotaged his mission.
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The memo also said he was routinely overstepping his credit limit.
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Parents fear they might overstep these invisible boundaries.
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The goods listed in the application must not overstep the approved or registered scope of business.
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And will those who argued that the branches are coequal argue that as loudly if Obama oversteps those boundaries?
Waldo Jaquith - Will your core beliefs switch with the presidency?
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SCA charged that the WSCF had "overstepped" its functions and was turning into "a superstructure ... which is now busy enforcing the will of the majority on the minority".
STUDENT MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA (1)
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This is not the first time that European judges have overstepped the proper limits of their power.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's surely overstepping the mark to behave so rudely to your guests.
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Although Beck has freedom of speech, there is the possibility that one day he will overstep the line between free speech and commit incitement to riot or a crime.
Think Progress » Ailes Defends Beck’s Incendiary Rhetoric: ‘He’s Talking About Hitler And Stalin’ Killing People, So It’s ‘Accurate’
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This was an impertinent, uninvited guest who was overstepping the mark.
COMPULSION
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You must never allow yourself to be crowded out, neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary.
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That group may have overstepped the line but the wider West Ham fanbase have shown their class this week.
The Sun
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In some ways, however, it was the court's majority that was in danger of overstepping the limits of its power.
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Overstep the ego, common development, is a target that We always struggle for.
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She's overstepped the mark in trying to change.Change was all very well but it could be carried too far.
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In newspaper articles she consistently upbraided those in authority who overstepped their limits.
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China's first all-female detective agency has been closed following allegations it broke the law and overstepped the scope of its powers, an official at the center said yesterday.
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Never mind, I say cheerfully, I expect he will slap me down if I overstep the mark.
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Following his inauguration for a second term, Roosevelt immediately overstepped his mandate.
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The flagship magazine of centrist evangelicals, Christianity Today, editorialized in 2008 that the Grassley investigation amounted to an "oversight overstep" that risked delving improperly into theology.
Televangelists escape penalty in Senate inquiry
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he overstepped his place
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The point is not that therapists have occasionally "overstepped" themselves.
Democracy Vs. Therapy
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I overstepped the line at a time when I was heavily influenced by the emotions of a disappointing defeat.
Times, Sunday Times
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I beli eved all along that the government severely overstepped its role by taking preferred stock with an option to convert into AIG common stock as additional consideration for the loan it gave to AIG.
Why Did We Nationalize AIG?
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Richard held his own against the IM, but overstepped the time limit and lost.
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Doing so is "overstepping," and "I assume responsibility" for the error and will fix it.
Chavez Revising, Not Revoking Venezuela's New Intelligence Law
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At a pre-trial hearing for Khadr last month, Hartmann was described as overbearing and tactless and alleged to have overstepped his role as legal adviser to become the "de facto chief prosecutor.
CommonDreams.org Headlines
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Last week he turned down a request by the opposition for the convening of parliament in defiance of the president, saying he ‘can not overstep the limits’ of his powers.
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As anyone close to the Supreme Court's work knows, this court has increasingly restricted the power of Congress when, in its view, Congress overstepped the powers granted to it by the Constitution.
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Ms. Bysiewicz ordered polls to stay open—which some called an overstep of her authority—and called the election for Mr. Malloy, a fellow Democrat, before all the votes were tallied.
Senate Hopeful Faces Questions
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The Democrats are NOT 'overstepping' their reach in healthcare, they are pushing through legislation to benefit their constituents.
The RNC takes aim at vulnerable Dems
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As a luminary and law minister Beig can not be expected to overstep his jurisdiction and transgress his limits beyond his domain.
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Obama Adminsitration is now attacking the CBO for "overstepping" it's analysis of the whole health care [...]
White House: CBO 'overstepped' in its analysis
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The bad language in that play overstepped the limits/boundaries of what ought to be allowed on television.
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For someone to say what it should be, is kind of overstepping their bounds.
Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
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Even when they are relatively young, however, whitetails and muleys are much larger than coyotes; their hooves are dangerous, often fatal, to coyotes that overstep predatory bounds.
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Such comment may, and no doubt does, from time to time overstep boundaries acceptable to the individual or local authority so criticised.
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He tends to overstep the boundaries of good taste.
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As a law minister he can not be expected to overstep his jurisdiction and transgress his limits beyond his domain.
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But several months after the ruling, two tiny far-right groups sued Judge Garzón for 'prevarication' -- knowingly overstepping his authority -- in violating the amnesty law.
Dorian de Wind: Judge Garzón's Prosecution: Spain's Version of "Lo Pasado, Pasado Está"
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_)] [Footnote 244: _scil. _ reddendo singula singulis, the lowest fine for breaking, the highest for overstepping, the medium for wrongful appropriation.
Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya
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They say Congress is authorized to regulate behavior to protect public safety or welfare, but federal lawmakers overstep the constitutional limits of their power when they begin ordering Americans to purchase certain products.
Think Progress » College debate organizers unable to find any law professors to argue health reform is unconstitutional.
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The bad language in that play overstepped the limits/boundaries of what ought to be allowed on television.
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The White House claims the Congressional agency is overstepping its bounds and unconstitutionally interfering with the functioning of the executive branch.
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So, automatically, these licenses are voided because the supreme court rules that the mayor overstepped his bounds?
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In newspaper articles she consistently upbraided those in authority who overstepped their limits.
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This is not the first time that European judges have overstepped the proper limits of their power.
Times, Sunday Times
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He conceded to Congress that he had probably overstepped the constitutional boundaries established for the president and thus needed congressional sanction.
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The press is overstepping in every direction the obvious bounds of propriety and of decency.
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She's overstepped the mark in trying to change.Change was all very well but it could be carried too far.
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But Orszag said CBO seemed to have "overstepped" by providing a cost estimate of savings from the panel without specifying them.
Home/News
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Extensional faults are planed by a regional unconformity that is overstepped by Permian to Cretaceous strata.
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The bad language in that play overstepped the limits/boundaries of what ought to be allowed on television.
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She realized she had overstepped the mark and quickly apologized.
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She's overstepped the mark in trying to change.Change was all very well but it could be carried too far.
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Individuals are required to perform their job to the full, but not to overstep the boundaries of their authority.
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After his conviction, Jordan said he realized he'd "overstepped" legal bounds in his quest to get to know Thurman.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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That group may have overstepped the line but the wider West Ham fanbase have shown their class this week.
The Sun
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CNN, "White House: CBO 'overstepped' in its analysis" [...] lynn in NM
White House: CBO 'overstepped' in its analysis
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he presumptuously overstepped the doctor's orders
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The court had overstepped the line.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Commission is sensitive to accusations that it is overstepping its authority.
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As it is, we are not persuaded that the questioning of the appellant overstepped the proper limits, even if it exploited those limits to the full.
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Wide boys and chancers are opportunists who might well overstep slightly the boundaries of the law in order to get the best deal.
Bosses I Have Known « Tales from the Reading Room
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I think you're overstepping your authority.
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Government shouldn't be raising kids, and we kind of overstep our bounds a lot of the time.
The Times Today's News
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“Sure he oversteps a litte …” Yeah, like killing up to 1.2 million Iraqis is a mere overstep and the killing of tens of thousands of uninvolved innocent Afghanis is likewise merely an overstep.
House Judiciary Panel Hearings on ‘Imperial Presidency’ « Antiwar.com Blog
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He said the Attorney General's office overstepped its authority and acted improperly.
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AZ didn't "overstep" their authority, they amended it.
Courierpress.com Stories
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Just as they are now asking if Obama is acting too cocky or is "overstepping" when he hasn't yet been elected (a question they never asked when John McCain met with the same leaders and traveled a similar path), they attributed to Hillary Clinton the sentiment that there should be a "coronation" last fall when she broke the 50 percent mark with Democratic voters in the Gallup polls.
Drew Westen: How Should Journalists Cover a Charismatic Candidate? When the Subjective is Objective
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I have no problem with Kim English "pinch-shooting" for J.T. Tiller, but if you're going to call overstepping the baseline at the end then call it the whole game.
Kansan.com stories
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It's cautious about its voice (although there are occasional weird stylistic anachronisms, which may be deliberate, but also, rather depressingly, may not be), anxious not to overstep its own mark.
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Moreover, if he is overstepping the limits of his office, it is in part because the insurance commissioners of New York and other states are not doing their jobs.
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But he said he had come to realize during the trial he had "overstepped" legal bounds.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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But opponents charged that tossing out the amnesty laws would open a can of worms and that Congress could be construed as overstepping bounds and infringing on the courts' decisions.
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Now her blood was up and she didn't care that she was overstepping the mark.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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Overstep the ego, common development, is a target that We always struggle for.
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Duncan added footnotes to ballet: extending the disciplinary boundaries of dance, overrunning the text of femininity and overstepping the marks made by pointe shoes.