Word: overstep
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STILL, we get atomized by giving too much importance to the peculiarities of others. Minor personal characteristics may be quite important aesthetically--you couldn't have a description without the details--but surely they overstep their purpose when they become a basis for moral judgement. Instead of looking at people, we often sniff out characteristics, representatives of certain stereotypes (usually bad ones...
...began to fear for the future of the Fourth Amendment. In its last session, the Court carved out an exception to the so-called exclusionary rule which maintained that illegally obtained evidence could not be used in a criminal trail. Now, the Justices say if police officers happen to overstep the boundries of their search warrant but were neverthelss acting in good faith, the evidence may be used in trial. If any more such whittling occurs, lawyers warn, that precious article which guards against arbitrary searches and seizures many be come an artifact in legal history...
...There's a fine line between interesting and pressuring a prospective athlete. We try to avoid the tendency to overstep that line." James W. Stoeckel '74, admissions athletics liaison...
...administration says we overstep our judgement when we demand the opportunity to view history from a unique and valuable perspective...
...denounced what he described as "feverish war preparations" by Peking, including the massing of 20 divisions along the frontier. Trinh also called on the United Nations to "examine the grave situation" and move to defuse it. The Soviet Union entered the rhetorical fray by warning Peking not to "overstep the forbidden line" in its quarrel with Hanoi...