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- adjective That can be
overridden .
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Examples
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One can use ˜rules of thumb™ to guide action, but these rules are overridable when abiding by them would conflict with the promotion of the good.
The History of Utilitarianism Driver, Julia 2009
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Has Bush been using signing statements as a sort of non-overridable veto, or are the nullifying statements significantly more frequent than vetoes have previously been? norbizness Says:
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Warning labels given to readers or consumers -- such as those on CDs -- do have a censorious effect, but overridable warning labels given to writers do not.
Introducing "Think Twice" Word Detection System To OpEdNews 2007
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Warning labels given to readers or consumers -- such as those on CDs -- do have a censorious effect, but overridable warning labels given to writers do not.
Introducing "Think Twice" Word Detection System To OpEdNews 2007
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I have sharp disagreements with Singer as to what makes death bad or bad for an entity (and generally things like consequentalism vs. deontology & the deontic (but overridable) importance of respect for autonomy where agents are concerned).
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This too is overridable, but I'd guess that 99.9% of SL users wouldn't be able to or wouldn't bother since they have nothing to gain from doing so.
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To put it in rationalist and empirical terms, it is the innate selfishness of the biological organism: overridable, but ineradicable.
Yes some guys are assholes, but it’s still your fault if you get raped 2005
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Shell:: Base, Shell:: Base does almost everything you describe here, plus a bunch more things like overridable hooks for each stage, basic configfile support, integration with an external pager, and configurable completions.
Planet Perl 2010
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None of the functions defined in this manner strike me as being overridable by mods.
phpBB.com michaelo 2010
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Mozilla developer Blake Kaplan reported that the window. location object was made a normal overridable JavaScript object in the Firefox 3.6 browser engine (Gecko 1.9.2) because new mechanisms were developed to enforce the same-origin policy between windows and frames.
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