Definition of "over-ruled" []

• A city of northeast Brazil on an offshore island in the Atlantic Ocean east-southeast of Belém. It was founded by the French in 1612 and named in honor of Louis XIII. Population: 942,000.

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• "Iowa is not a referendum state but the Iowa Supreme court might yet be over-ruled by Iowa voters if the Republicans are in the majority in both houses of the Iowa legislature and vote on two successive legislative sessions to submit the matter to a vote of the people!"
• "As Americans, we seem to think it's permissible to just speak our mind whenever we choose to, and legally that is one of the things we pride ourselves on, but doesn't it seem like this legal answer needs to be over-ruled by a more pressing moral response?"
• "By all accounts, the president's office was ready last year to do a deal over uranium fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor, but Ahmadinejad was over-ruled."