Heaven and earth, overweening.
An overweening public sector has stifled growth in jobs in service industries.
No: England had no need of an national stadium, just a huge, overweening desire for one.
In our foreign trade some people are arrogant and overweening, and this is wrong.
"as if no one was nearby; (1)expression of pride, haughtiness; overweening (2)Behave in a natural way "
It is the overweening arrogance that the early British colonizers represent themselves in their imperial literature, while the resistance of the Colonial Other's is totally ignored.
At times, government is overweening and ought to be cut back. At others, active government is required to steady markets, help the needy or serve the public good.
The most partisan politicians, upon winning, must govern in the name of all, using the powers of overweening government they have secured, so to hell with all politicians.
NGOs now lobby for convicts' rights, and lawyers argue that the issue is not between death-row convicts and the rest of the citizenry but of overweening state power over all.
He could have galvanised the great majority that have been cheated by an overweening super-class but thought it electorally necessary to mimic the Tory myth of the undifferentiated big-tent "middle".
For many years China's law enforcement organs have consistently adopted a highhanded policy in dealing with drug-related criminal activities and struck heavy blows at the overweening arrogance of the drug-related culprits both at home and abroad.
