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• In response to Roosevelt's declaration of the Grand Canyon monument, a putative mining claimant sued in federal court, claiming that Roosevelt had overstepped the Antiquities Act authority by protecting an entire canyon.
• But Herwegh overstepped all the bounds of conventionality in a letter to the King, and was hurried out of Prussia.
• Frere strongly felt that the bolder was the better course, and he urged his views with an urgent and fearless persistency that on sometimes overstepped the limits of his commission.
• Meanwhile, a group in Ontario, also known as the "Wednesday Nighters", filed an application with the Ontario Superior Court, claiming that the Cup trustees had overstepped their bounds in signing the 1947 agreement with the NHL, and therefore must award the trophy to any team willing to play for the cup regardless of the lockout.
• In Hebrew, chutzpah is used indignantly, to describe someone who has overstepped the boundaries of accepted behavior.
• On September 20, 2017, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit alleging that the Trump administration has overstepped its powers in expediting construction of a border wall.
• On Fox News on the Geraldo at Large show, October 6, 2007, Geraldo Rivera alleged Schwartz had overstepped his position as a university researcher by requesting money from a bereaved father to fund research into mediumship.
• Among the Sino-Burmese community of Yangon, Lim is remembered as a man whose fall was partially caused by his hubris: in China, an octagonal tower was only constructed by those with claims to imperial authority; by building his home in such a shape, believers in Chinese geomancy claim that he overstepped his place in the world and unwittingly caused his own demise.
• They were at the centre of dramatic events in 1821 when they seem to have overstepped the mark, as the Times (London, England) reported on 2 June 1821: three of Hugh's great-great-grandsons forced a local doctor, William Cuddie, into a duel at which he was mortally wounded.
• Greenhow believed Baxley had overstepped acceptable codes of female conduct, namely that she had unladylike manners.

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