Example sentences for: override

How can you use “override” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Gore voted in favor of the veto override, which failed, 223-190 (falling short of the necessary two-thirds majority).

  • Holmes explained that some of his Alabama colleagues opposed his measure because they willfully refused to accept that the federal government had the power to override state law--an ideology of states' rights that goes way beyond Newt Gingrich to John Calhoun.

  • La Repubblica of Rome described Germany's call on Sunday for an immediate pan-European initiative against the Algerian terrorists as a conscious decision to override the feelings of its great ally, France, out of "fear of seeing the triumph only a few hours' flight from Frankfurt, Paris and Milan of intransigent and violent Islamic fundamentalists on a par with those of Afghanistan or of Iran before [President Mohammed] Khatami."

  • (The user can override the default values and input an arbitrary value for any parameter.)

  • The Senate is thought to be a few votes short of an override.


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