overbearance
Example Sentences
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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.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2017
For baby-boomer parents homework has become both a status gauge--the nightly load indicates the toughness of their child's school--and an outlet for nervy overbearance, so that each homework assignment is practically theirs to complete too.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under Charlemagne's successors the ruin of the Frank peasantry was aggravated by internal wars, weakness of the royal power and corresponding overbearance of the nobles.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
In the world of nature there is tyranny, egoism, aggression, overbearance, usurpation of the rights of others and other blameworthy attributes which are defects of the animal world.
From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by Esslemont, J. E. (John Ebenezer)
Alma 38:12 12 Use boldness, but not overbearance; and also see that ye bridle all your passions, that ye may be filled with love; see that ye refrain from idleness.
From The Book of Mormon by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
