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How to use overstepped in a sentence

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The defence claimed police overstepped their bounds during that search and the search of a private detective's office.
But the defence still wants some of the items disqualified, claiming that investigators overstepped the limits of the search warrant.
Extensional faults are planed by a regional unconformity that is overstepped by Permian to Cretaceous strata.
Most serious of all is that our political leaders repeatedly overstepped the scope of their constitutionally prescribed jobs.
So, automatically, these licenses are voided because the supreme court rules that the mayor overstepped his bounds?
The city claims that Carvin showed poor judgment and overstepped his authority in raising issues of attorney bill padding.
Richard held his own against the IM, but overstepped the time limit and lost.
This time it is Ashikaga Bank, which apparently has overstepped its adequacy limit, or something.
Without knowing what those terms of reference were, the Committee could not determine whether the Task Force had overstepped its authority.
In short, we would make it clear to the world and the potential recruits that ISIS has fatally overstepped its capabilities.
But this salutary revolution, like so many revolutions, overstepped, and resulted in the Great Inversion.
I'm only allowed to wear black boots and I've already overstepped the mark here by putting on some white ones.
However, housing markets got carried away as skyrocketing prices significantly overstepped historical relationships with household income.
Urbina's decision was reversed by other judges, who found that he had overstepped his judicial bounds.
They want to know if the agriculture minister overstepped his bounds in his zeal to remove barley from the Canadian Wheat Board.
This decision has been roundly attacked by the mining industry, which is spreading the falsehood that the board overstepped its bounds.
A person must go before the Superior Court if he wishes to argue that they have overstepped the boundaries of the law.
If Congress found that a decree overstepped the law, it could make the necessary amendments.
This means that the last rounds of enlargement have overstepped its capacity.
The main question is whether the government overstepped its bounds in monitoring certain data for the purposes of catching terrorists.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was unspeakably humiliating to be told that she had overstepped her authority.
He has his orders, and would be marked for discouragement if he overstepped them.
In the ninth and tenth frames three of their bowlers overstepped the foul line.
True, he had twice overstepped the bounds, but he had not followed it up and made a practice of it.
It was not often that he had so far overstepped the bounds which his natural caution, his ever-present self-restraint, imposed upon him.
He has himself overstepped the measure, and made it quite ovidian.
You know, madame, that many very pious princes have overstepped the privileges of the churches for the glory of God and the necessities of the State.
But when the expression of person A's religion impinges on the civil rights of person B, then freedom of religion has overstepped its bounds in a free and democratic society.
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