What's the difference between overreaching and vaulting?

Overreaching


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overreach

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Governor Phil Bryant only offered a grudging acceptance of the order, saying the court had overreached into states’ rights and was “certainly out of step with the majority of Mississippians”.
  • (2) I appreciate things like that.” News about things like overreach in government surveillance make her uneasy but she said her tendency would be to shrug and say: “As long as I have no plans to threaten the national security, I don’t really have any reason to worry.” “In term of health privacy though, once we start thinking about health and our families, I think it’s very easy to realize that this is the most sensitive personal information about us,” she said.
  • (3) To self-described “militia members” sleeping in wind-whipped tents, drinking camp coffee and patrolling rocky hillsides with military-style weapons, protecting Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his family from an overreaching federal government is a patriotic duty .
  • (4) They know how we tick in America and Europe – and they know what pushes us toward intervention and overreach.
  • (5) We would have made things much worse by going in there.” Blair, who was steeped in interventionist ideals about fighting global “evil”, certainly overreached his authority.
  • (6) The attorney general, George Brandis , said Heydon was a man of “stainless integrity” and casting doubt on his impartiality was a “terrible overreach by the Labor party”.
  • (7) Tony Abbott’s got himself into a real situation here where he overreached and said that he would shirtfront the Russian president and clearly he’s not going to shirtfront him.
  • (8) The government had been trying to slash the RET after a review last year found the legislated 41,000GWh could overreach the policy goal of 20% of all energy coming from renewables by 2020.
  • (9) We need food consumers to band with us on government overreach and extreme environmentalism,” Erin Maupin, a Harney County rancher in attendance, told the Guardian.
  • (10) The government's intense secrecy is an overreach, conducted at the expense of international law, human rights and popular notions of fairness.
  • (11) "Leakers and whistleblowers, together with the investigative journalists they inform, are a critically important pressure valve, however imperfect, that protect us from an overreaching national security establishment that uses the justifiable needs of operational secrecy to avoid scrutiny for its errors of judgment, incompetence, or malfeasance.
  • (12) I talked Charles up in the briefings but some of the journalists thought Charles was overreaching himself.
  • (13) The White House has responded with fury, calling it another case of “egregious overreach by a single unelected judge”.
  • (14) We are pleased that the court ruled against the Obama administration’s latest illegal federal overreach,” said Texas attorney general Ken Paxton , who led the challenge by Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arizona, Maine, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah, Georgia, Mississippi and Kentucky.
  • (15) The groups called on the intelligence and security committee to consider whether some form of warrant process should be required for access to metadata to guard against agency overreach.
  • (16) Why are the Coalition and Labor both embracing this overreaching law?
  • (17) And now that the trial is over, I am none the wiser – save to say that I think the prosecution overreached itself in pushing for premeditated murder and that I agree with the judge that the evidence did not support the charge.
  • (18) We can not have a two tiered internet that supports the privileged and leaves the rest of us lagging behind.” But Republican commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O’Reilly the FCC was overreaching and its attempts at regulation were likely to be harmful and would fail.
  • (19) In his speech, titled “securing freedom in the age of terrorism”, Brandis argued the domestic security risk posed by terrorists must not be underestimated, but the government had “been careful” to ensure it did not overreach in its response to the threat.
  • (20) Legal experts have warned the government has overreached in applying the revocation powers to these kind of offences.

Vaulting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vault
  • (n.) The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.
  • (n.) Act of one who vaults or leaps.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cranial vault displayed a severe concentric hyperostosis besides other striking changes.
  • (2) Two cases of uterine injury complicating midtrimester abortion induced by hypertonic saline are described, one with an extensive laceration of the cervix and the other with a rupture of the lower uterine segment extending into the vault of the vagina.
  • (3) The deformities resulting from premature closure of a coronal, sagittal, metopic, or lambdoid suture can be predicted by the following observations: (1) cranial vault bones that are prematurely fused act as a single bone plate with decreased growth potential; (2) asymmetrical bone deposition occurs mainly at perimeter sutures, with increased bone deposition directed away from the bone plate; (3) sutures adjacent to the stenotic suture compensate in growth more than those sutures not contiguous with the closed suture; and (4) enhanced bone deposition occurs along both sides of a nonperimeter suture that is a continuation of the prematurely closed suture.
  • (4) Unusual to see one around here until just recently.” More deer vaulted in front of my car on Yubari’s main street the following day, forcing a swerve.
  • (5) We have studied the incidence of intraoperative hemorrhage, bladder damage, hemorrhage up to 48 h after surgery, hemorrhage up to 14 days after surgery, vault abscesses or collections and pelvic peritonitis.
  • (6) They commemorate – sometimes no more questioningly than a press release – a new novel or stage play or film, before disappearing into production-company vaults.
  • (7) Last Friday evening, ahead of the congress, the politicians gathered with 100 guests for a dinner in the vaulted cellar of a castle, Burg Weisenau, in the nearby city of Mainz.
  • (8) The standard procedure consisted of an abdominal sacropexy, with use of Marlex mesh to anchor the vaginal vault to the sacral promontory and retroperitonealization of the mesh.
  • (9) If you hold more than a few thousand pounds [at home] you are likely to invalidate your household insurance, or will have to pay an extra premium and install security measures.” Bullion Vault’s 60,000 customers own the gold they buy, but it is held in vaults in London, Zürich, New York, Toronto or Singapore.
  • (10) They can be summarized as: mesial shifting of the maxilla, dimensional increase of the mandibular body, ovoidal upper arch with a deeper palatal vault, tapering or trapezoidal lower arch.
  • (11) A case is reported in which an immense cranial vault was reduced as part of the rehabilitation of a patient with severe hydrocephalus who had preservation of the intellect.
  • (12) The prosthodontic management of patients with partial tongue resection often includes lowering the palatal vault, while the management of the total glossectomy patient usually requires a mandibular tongue prosthesis.
  • (13) He’s nine now but he has seen it.” Others using the vault feared they had lost jewellery, family heirlooms, cash and essential documents, he added.
  • (14) The supplementary use of external cranial vault molding devices after these surgical techniques, however, has resulted in consistently improved cranial vault from over what could be achieved by operation alone.
  • (15) This was accompanied by an overall significant reduction in neurocranial vault length during the first 30 days of development.
  • (16) There were eight patients with the radiological type I characterized by diffuse, symmetrical osteosclerosis with pronounced sclerosis of the skull and enlarged thickness of the cranial vault, and six patients with type II characterized by diffuse, symmetrical osteosclerosis, "Rugger-Jersey spine" and "endobones" (bone within a bone) in the pelvis.
  • (17) There was no direct physical evidence that any of the guilty men were ever in the vault.
  • (18) The common clinical finding enabling us to include all 36 tumors in this study is a large tumefaction of the cranial vault, without our being able to determine its anatomical starting point or histological nature.
  • (19) On these casts intermolar and intercanine arch width, arch length, ratio, palatal vault depth and palatal volume measurements were performed.
  • (20) And then, instead of destroying the text, he perversely deposited the manuscript in a Swiss bank vault in the custody of his wife and son.

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