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In 2020 American Compass defended organized labor as a means for combating big government, writing: “We prefer the private ordering of bargains between workers and management to overbearing dictates from Washington.”

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Even trying her best to empathize, she’s overbearing.

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In the cocktail of their marriage, he adds the bitterness and she adds the spice, qualities that can be either overbearing or harmonious.

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He told jurors he could sometimes be "overbearing", but claimed that was just his "direct Yorkshire style".

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"Whatever your view of the hate speech vs freedom of speech issues, an overbearing government minister doesn't help anyone," he said.

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