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Перевод: overweening

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самонадеянный; высокомерный; самоуверенный

Тезаурус:

1. Caledor II was vain, pompous, overweening and bombastic.
2. The country's authoritarianism and uniformity owe much to the state's overweening power.
3. Jack Jones found himself assailed by Paul Johnson, the ex-editor of the New Statesman who had moved to the far right, as "The Emperor Jones", almost a fourth estate of the realm in himself and the symbol of overweening trade-union power.
4. Once again Congress had struck back against an overweening executive branch.
5. "Many of the imperfections and injustices in our political system - the overweening power of the executive, the absence of proper protection for personal liberty, unfair voting, excessive secrecy, a Conservative dominated press, the centralisation of power - all these were tolerated by many in Britain, precisely because, from time to time, power changed hands
6. Perhaps the most overweening statement of nationalism in station architecture, however, is Milan Station, begun in 1920 and opened in 1930.
7. not only on account of the manner of its content but also on account of the manner of its distribution, have the effect of a red rag upon the Gallic bull; it is important that we should be the party attacked and this Gallic overweening and touchiness will make us if we announce in the face of Europe that we fearlessly meet the public threats of France
8. Now here, lying on her bed while St Margaret held his dragon power in check, Maggie knew she had indulged Fenna too long, that she had fed him and petted him into overweening size and pride.
9. Unfortunately, however, Hoving's overweening ego becomes distressingly evident: he presents a soon tiring scenario of the young, hip, rebellious David against the stuffy old WASP Goliaths, symbolised by most of the board of trustees and members of the curatorial staff.
10. "Even so", said W.R. Cornish and G. de N. Clark in their Law and Society in England 1750-;1950 , "there was a growing feeling that a system which sent 10,000 or so debtors into prisons each year (a quarter or more on the mesne process) was too expensive, too indiscriminate, too open to abuse and overweening pressure."
11. Peter Shore, who served as its last secretary of state, believes that the creation of the DEA was an attempt to remedy "the principal defect of Cabinet government, as well as the principal defect of economic policy, which was the overweening power of the Treasury, which was too great for the full collective work of a Cabinet".
12. Nevertheless, Western interests lie in ensuring that Russia does not become the overweening power in the region.
13. At base there is an enormous arrogance and an overweening ambition.