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...look into Wooten's life. Court records from 2005 show that the judge in the divorce case was concerned by the aggressiveness even then with which the family was trying to get Wooten fired, saying from the bench that "the bitterness of whatever who did what to whom has overridden good judgment...
...arrested after having already been set free by the prosecutor, Mohammed deliberately put himself at risk again by offering a cell phone to another detainee. The phone was clearly contraband, as indicated by all the signs hanging around the station. But, for Mohammed, the instinct for self-preservation was overridden by the desire to help the other guy call home. That sealed his fate: The police chief saw the act of disobedience, and Mohammed was thrown into a cell where I could no longer...
...There's tons of great content out there, but it's being overridden by the delivery system that gives you facts and updates," said Blinkoff. These "aren't satisfying and are light on the good stuff for you; it's quantity instead of quality...
...solidify "21st-century socialism," which also would have put the autonomous Central Bank under his control and exerted deeper federal authority over local and state governments. Given the fact that Venezuela's National Assembly and Supreme Court are already Chavez's rubber stamps, those issues seem to have overridden the economic carrots Chavez's reform package held out, like expanded social security benefits and shorter working hours (from 8 to 6 hours each...
...Cheney's office denies any division between Bush and the Vice President over the new diplomacy. A senior Administration official acknowledges, however, that the President has increasingly overridden Cheney and offers a nuanced view of the relationship. "There's an almost temperamental or dispositional question here. You see it in the Israeli-Palestinian context. The President said, 'I understand there are risks, but I think that this is a shot worth taking.' The Vice President would probably emphasize the risks more, and I think that's just the person...