This means that they overrule ordinary statutes.

This procedure would give the referees on the field the opportunity, if necessary, to overrule their initial decisions.

But, until now, the right to work at home was sacrosanct at Yahoo!, something that an employee s manager could not overrule.

Since 1995, the European Court of Justice may overrule Austrian decisions in all matters defined in laws of the European Union.

And, while weighted majorities can overrule it on some issues, everyone acknowledges that little can be done in the eurozone unless Germany agrees.

Does anyone still believe that the US economy is on the brink of recession? Or that the Bundesbank has the power to overrule ECB President Mario Draghi's policy decisions?

He emphasized that the Act in no way superseded the jurisdiction of the courts, which could overrule any measure taken under the Act that was in breach of the Constitution.

One advantage for China, however, in pursuing an FTA strategy is that it is still an authoritarian state, and thus could overrule domestic opposition far more easily than could governments in Japan or South Korea.

Rather, Greenspan's mistake if it was a mistake was his failure to overrule the market and aggressively push the interest rate up above its natural rate, which would have deepened and prolonged the recession that started in 2001.

European culture, customs and government were introduced, with the Roman Catholic Church becoming the major economic and political power to overrule the traditional ways of the region, eventually becoming the only official religion of the Americas during this period.