An overbearing bureaucracy would be encouraged to get on with implementing the reforms.

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It also means someone in authority who behaves in an overbearing manner.

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In fact, the American Revolution was a fight just a few generations ago against an overbearing government that demanded what could be called economic patriotism.

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She said Labour's child protection regime "treated over a quarter of the whole workforce, some 11 million people, as potential abusers" by "requiring them to be monitored as part of an overbearing vetting and barring system".

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The first minister said the term as defined in the dictionary meant an "overbearing wielder of petty authority" and insisted it was used in public parlance a number of times.

BBC: First minister's questions

The pair also has an adequate amount of heft without being overbearing when added to the weight of an already packed rucksack.

ENGADGET

We live in an age of helicopter parents so pushy and overbearing that Colorado Springs banned its annual Easter-egg hunt on account of adults jumping the starter's gun and scooping up treat-filled plastic eggs on behalf of their winsome kids.

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In an effort to win a share of the work, fractious, overbearing men were for once ready to behave nicely towards one another.

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