| For instance, if long jumpers or triple jumpers overstep the take-off board, they will commit a foul. |
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| Never mind, I say cheerfully, I expect he will slap me down if I overstep the mark. |
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| As a luminary and law minister, he cannot be expected to overstep his jurisdiction and transgress his limits beyond his domain. |
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| The Conservatives are prepared to overstep Quebec's jurisdictions and we think that is unacceptable. |
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| People obviously have to watch their budget and we need to be sensitive here and not overstep the mark. |
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| Censorship is the rule in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia, where journalists are exposed to harsh reprisals if they overstep the mark. |
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| Will a new overstep such as voluntary default be the impetus for realignment between the parties? |
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| To enumerate the rules which these authors have given for the discantus or the polyphobia, would be to overstep the boundary prescribed by the plan of the present work. |
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| And there's almost no penalty at all for state actors who overstep their authority. |
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| All states that overstep Security Council resolutions would be liable to sanction. |
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| This is a situation where no dialogue is possible, due to the existence of ethical limits that we cannot overstep. |
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| There is a limit to these kinds of demands and we will have to make sure that we do not overstep that limit. |
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| The authorities, always bound by the law, can in some ways overstep the mark in their efforts to prevent and clamp down on terrorism. |
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| The recent global crisis encouraged some manufacturers to overstep all normal bounds. |
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| Besides, this is a question mainly concerning rules of substance which would thus overstep the scope of the Uniform Law. |
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| It's cautious about its voice, anxious not to overstep its own mark. |
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| I'd enjoy seeing a trillion dollar coin minted purely for the deservedly righteous indignation such an overstep would create. |
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| That occasionally he might overstep the line is unsurprising. |
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| If Iran finally came to possess a nuclear capability, it is important for the other nuclear powers, in particular the United States, to define the limits which Iran must not overstep. |
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| He is talking as a fisherman, someone who has witnessed the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and how it can, from time to time, overstep its jurisdiction. |
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| However, it was alarmed by intentional or unintentional reinterpretation of General Assembly resolutions, and urged the Advisory Committee to ensure that it did not overstep its technical mandate. |
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| Don't overstep your personal physical boundaries and always stay within the limits of what your body will allow you to do, i.e. go at it gently without getting out of breath. |
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| Politicians must, however, always be aware of what they may and may not ask of civil servants, and civil servants must take care not to overstep the mark so as not to lose their reputation and harm that of the civil service. |
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| A new early warning system gives national parliaments the right to comment on draft laws and to check that the EU does not overstep its authority by involving itself in matters best dealt with nationally or locally. |
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| He shall exercise his powers within the limit of the corporate purpose, provided he does not overstep the powers that the law expressly confers upon shareholders' meetings and on the Board of Directors. |
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| As far as I can remember he was careful not to overstep the mark and not be overcritical of what was going on in Sarawak. |
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| Do that and you end up producing the sterile banalities of corporate speeches. Another criticism is that Messrs Bush and Gerson overstep the mark that separates church from state. |
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| Brazil was not suggesting that the Security Council should overstep its mandate and deal directly with development issues, or that peacekeepers should perform tasks to which they were not suited. |
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