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Overstep

Overstep meaning

To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions. | To take a step in which the foot touches ground too far forward. | To move with a gait such that the hind foot touches the ground forward of the point where the front foot touches the ground.

Example sentences (18)

So the last thing we want to do is overstep our boundaries or overstep our bearings for more than we can handle,” Rivera says.

A small thing, perhaps, but it illustrates just how alert and brittle a character Manning is, and how carefully Theroux has to tread to ensure he doesn’t overstep the mark with an exceptionally bright and often defensive personality.

In an overstep of the creative fashion process, Cyrus also adopted culturally appropriative faux locs, a protective hairstyle used by Black communities.

The executives criticized several aspects of the Office of Community Standards (OCS), which they said they saw as an overstep in bureaucracy.

Republican-led states, energy industry companies and business groups say the rules amount to environmental regulation and therefore overstep the SEC’s legal mandate.

The legislature decided this was so big of an overstep of judicial power, that we put forth a resolution for a constitutional amendment.

Channel 13 reported on a July meeting between Englman and the committee’s members, in which the comptroller lashed out at them over their demand that Netanyahu return money to Milikowsky, calling it an overstep of the committee’s authority.

Gary Botting, a Vancouver extradition lawyer who is not representing Meng, said Canada’s Border Services Agency tends to overstep.

I’m not saying the army did not overstep their powers individually, some have (been) arrested.

I think they did overstep the mark and got overenthusiastic.

That kind of overstep has become a too-frequent occurrence on the City Council, and it’s something I’ll work to reverse.

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has repeatedly warned the five foreign energy firms currently exploring off Cyprus not to “overstep the mark,” arguing that some of its surrounding waters fall within the country’s own jurisdiction.

When you think about it that way, journalists with a strong social brand are likely to overstep the policies that individual newsrooms have expressed around professional and journalistic behavior.

Since 2010 a ‘yellow card’ system has been in place in Denmark that obliges pig farmers who overstep the current antibiotic norms to reduce usage.

Sometimes, of course, nannies overstep the mark, snooping or ‘borrowing’ possessions.

This power, which allows the federal government to spend the revenue it raises in any way that it pleases, allows it to overstep the constitutional division of powers by creating programs that encroach on areas of provincial jurisdiction.

This recommendation by the INCB has been criticized as an attempt by the Board to overstep its legitimate mandate and as establishing a reason for governments to violate the human rights (i.

We don't want to overstep the bounds of our authority.