verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
exceed/overstep your authority (= do more than you have the power or right to do )
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A higher court decided that the judge had exceeded his authority.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bound
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But there was a period in his life at which his suspicion and hostility to others overstepped the bounds of sanity.
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A military commander may overstep the bounds of constitutionality, and it is an incident.
boundary
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Such comment may, and no doubt does, from time to time overstep boundaries acceptable to the individual or local authority so criticised.
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I have overstepped my boundaries , challenged his authority, sabotaged his mission.
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To say however that this route supplies the only reliable way to knowledge is grossly to overstep its boundaries .
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You must never allow yourself to be crowded out, neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary .
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Individuals are required to perform their job to the full, but not to overstep the boundaries of their authority.
limit
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Does Dickens, for example, overstep the limits of grammar in beginning Bleak House with a series of sentences without main verbs?
mark
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The preacher overstepped the mark when he called the Royal Mail to a halt on the moor near Bagshot.
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Helen shrugged; she felt mildly embarrassed, as if she had overstepped the mark .
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In either case an agent trying to influence Fontaine may have overstepped the mark .
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In each painting a conjurer has overstepped his mark .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A military commander may overstep the bounds of constitutionality, and it is an incident.
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Following his inauguration for a second term, Roosevelt immediately overstepped his mandate.
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Her friends and neighbors were angry at her because she had overstepped, given too much, offended them by excess.
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The imperial authorities fully exploited and sometimes overstepped their constitutional powers: there were imperial laws for everything.
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The parliamentarians hit back by accusing Mr Obasanjo of overstepping his powers and showing dictatorial tendencies.
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The preacher overstepped the mark when he called the Royal Mail to a halt on the moor near Bagshot.
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The state Court of Criminal Appeals overruled the hearing, however, declaring that Brown had overstepped his authority.
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Thomas, obedient to codes of privacy, didn't want to overstep the line.