overbear

He stared round at the crowd, trying to overbear them with his one eye.

It takes time to extinguish dissent and to overbear the questioning mind.

"But you must promise me most faithfully not to permit Charles to overbear your judgment!"

There are times when the fiery heart of a man must overbear the cold brain of a soldier.

I'll undertake to overbear them if they get stuffy."

Others have cracked under the sheer weight of fruit, as Kieffers tend to overbear.

It matters not how strong the persuasion was, so long as it did not overbear the independence of the patient's decision.

There is virtual unanimity of preference for oral teaching which might seem to overbear the possibility of opposition.

Klemmer cursed himself for allowing pride of airmanship to overbear his natural caution.

I am carried to the best spare room, the Bassington-ffrenches either sympathetic or bitterly resisting, but in any case, George will overbear them.

In addition they ask how the people who leave messages on an Internet bulletin board can interrupt or overbear the free decisions of readers or advertisers.

Valgrim let it die away, waiting for his moment: he had opposition, he knew, and needed every advantage to overbear it.

She was too sensible to name Mordechai Anielewicz where anyone might overbear his name.

In truth, if God did wish, this later vow would overbear the first--yet I think the occasion does not arise."

To overbear an airship captain of questionable ancestry was, after all, a small triumph for the new heir to Winter Kraal.

Its effortless clarity offers no resistance; it does not instruct, moralize or overbear; it does not get in the way.

Although the Tsar was touched by the Ambassador's devotion, he allowed his wife's malevolent attitudes to overbear the sensible advice he had been given.

The poet Virgil has said that the mission of the Roman is to rule; "To spare the conquered and with war the proud, To overbear."

Egeus, I will overbear your will; For in the temple, by and by, with us These couples shall eternally be knit.

However he added that the payments did not "overbear the wills of the surrogates", and as the welfare of the children is paramount they should be allowed to live with the British couple.

The important thing was that an enemy observer could overbear a message so transmitted and track down the sender-with some ease under these circumstances-only if it by chance passed through the directional beam.

It would paw the ground for a moment, its hammerhead lowered, and then it would chase them down this narrow, hopeless path, overbear them, trample them, gore them.

Now, this was in response, this was being in response, Mr. Lowell, to allegations that she was being subjected to the kinds of conditions that would overbear the will.

A promise of confidentiality, the Government said, "is not the kind of Government conduct that is likely to overbear a person's will and in effect render his confession the product of coercion."

Furthermore, this "military" implication of is consistent with other words in the poem presenting suggestions of a strife and a violence that relentlessly overbear the gentle conviviality of ordinary joys: with, for example, and.