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单词 overweening
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overweening
Nor can they adequately explain how governability is to be enhanced by the kind ofoverweeningpresidential powers that facilitate 'delegative democracy' and often precipitate regime break-down.
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Maintenance of quality and standards in broadcasting against a background ofoverweeningpreoccupation with capital and income profit is extremely difficult to achieve.
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They are becomingoverweeningand arrogant, and their supporters are beginning to find it difficult to justify their employment legislation.
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By means of this proposal, we have run up the flag of realism and signalled our opposition tooverweeningbureaucracy.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
What seemed like carelessness in the first few days they were in office has turned into a habit ofoverweeningarrogance.
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The present voting system gives rise to the possibility that small states will be givenoverweeningpower; that position is not sustainable.
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Such a power will create anoverweeningbureaucracy, which will be very costly.
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If we have a choice between competitive markets andoverweeningregulation, we should realise that consumers are served best by better-working markets.
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This might be the exception to the rule with respect to anoverweeningexecutive.
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How, therefore, can one expect them to solve the major problem of theoverweeningpower of government versus the citizen?
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Nationalism is capable of supporting anoverweeningpersonal ambition.
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He is fast becoming an enthusiast for anoverweening, centralised and unaccountable exercise of state power.
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Under article 173 of the treaty, the court of justice has a similar power to control theoverweeningpower of other institutions.
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It has always happened in this country thatoverweeningpower has eventually found its check.
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There are concerns about that court having anoverweeningamount of power in some of the decisions that it makes.
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