But the theory overrode itself.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
He looked at her doubtfully for a second, then, impelled by an authority that overrode every scruple, he turned in silence and tiptoed from the room.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
The law of necessity overrode the legal pronouncement in this matter of food, as it often did in other ways.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair