overstep|overstepped|overstepping|oversteps in English

verb

exceed; take something beyond the limit; cross a boundary

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1. Humility restrains us from overstepping our authority.

2. He presumptuously overstepped the doctor's orders.

3. 3 . Your rules overstep your parental boundaries .

4. He has overstepped the bounds of acceptable behaviour.

5. Do you think she overstepped on purpose?

6. In each painting a conjurer has overstepped his mark.

7. He' s an ungrateful parasite who overstepped his boundaries

8. A greedy person often takes liberties and oversteps the limits of proper behavior.

9. The Commission is sensitive to accusations that it is overstepping its authority.

10. It's surely overstepping the mark to behave so rudely to your guests.

11. He overstepped the mark and we had no option but to suspend him.

12. In newspaper articles she consistently upbraided those in authority who overstepped their limits.

13. For each minute by which a player oversteps the time control, a penalty of 10 points is assessed.

14. Hosea chapters 6 through 9 show that the people displayed disloyalty by overstepping Jehovah’s covenant and practicing wickedness.

15. You want us to spread the word about your documentary technique about how you overstep all acceptable boundaries?

16. 10 Following his inauguration for a second term,[www.Sentencedict.com] Roosevelt immediately overstepped his mandate.

17. Commentary described the delivery as a "massive overstep", a good half-metre beyond the popping crease.

18. The parliamentarians hit back by accusing Mr Obasanjo of overstepping his powers and showing dictatorial tendencies.

19. The bad language in that play overstepped the limits/boundaries of what ought to be allowed on television.

20. The beginners should not access the deep end, and the shallow area reticule should not be overstepped by the swimmers with life buoys.

21. Of course, this doesn't apply to Cheating in the traditional sense, but refers more to emotional Cheating or overstepping the boundary between friendship and something more.

22. Arrogation (countable and uncountable, plural Arrogations) (law) The unjust assumption of rights or privilege. The President's arrogation of this new Act oversteps his bounds and causes our rights to …

23. Interpretations of the timing of accretion have been constrained by comparing faunal affinities, overstep sequences, age and kinematics of inferred accretionary deformational events, and controversial paleomagnetic data.

24. When they protested that Jesus’ disciples did not keep the traditions, Jesus challenged them with the question: “Why is it you also overstep the commandment of God because of your tradition?”

25. As long as these greeting customs do not overstep your principles of conscience, why not be adaptable when in another’s country, not ignoring his way of life and expecting him to change to yours?