overbearance

“Arrogance, always doing as one pleases, acts of hegemony, overbearance or bullying will lead nowhere,” Xi said, according to comments released by the official Xinhua News Agency.

Ziolkowski, decrying what he believed was government overbearance and/or waste at Rushmore, stood his ground that no federal or state moneys would ever be used at Crazy Horse.

“If those things were laid out sequentially and strategically so that they don’t create an overbearance on small business I think that there’s a way to do this,” he said.

Nina L. Khrushcheva, a professor of international affairs at the New School in New York, said that diplomacy under Mr. Obama, along with a general feeling of American overbearance, has left many more skeptical, and not just over crises like the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and now Syria.

He had depended too much, it seemed, on the withering influence his insolent overbearance had produced on the old man, whose will and strength had at last been aroused by the audacious threat wielded in that sapling.