Word: overstepped
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FINDS FOR GORE! [or] FINDS FOR BUSH! Decides the Florida Supreme Decides that the Florida Court did not usurp the Supreme Court did overstep Florida legislature's power its bounds in extending the when it extended the deadline ballot-counting deadline from...
Greenspan's goal is to slow the economy just enough to quell inflationary pressures resulting from torrid growth and rising wages. He pulled it off with a series of rate increases in 1994. Still, economic engineering is inexact. The risk is that he'll overstep, slowing things to the point where consumers disappear, corporate profits tumble and layoffs mount. It's a legitimate fear voiced by a growing number of Greenspan detractors...
...centralizing trend of earlier courts and shift power away from the federal government to the states, often claiming that such a scheme better satisfies the "original intent" of the framers. Recently, in its zeal to protect states' "sovereign immunity," the Court's five-member majority has begun to overstep the bounds of original intent, ruling in two cases that the 11th Amendment, which protects states from federal lawsuits "by Citizens of another State," also protects them from suits by their own citizens over violations of federal labor law. The Republicans who complain that "judicial activism" has turned judges into legislators...
Though Harvard is involved in cooperative discussions with the Allston community, the University is not anxious to overstep its bounds...